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Great article, After Web2.0, we need People2.0, http://people20.blogspot.com, agrawalavinash1_at_yahoo.com : email suggestions etc and let us move forward together, Avinash

I like this comparison a lot. One of the things though that makes Google’s core value proposition so powerful is that they have monetized ‘meta data’, that is data about the data. Their most successful ventures I expect will follow this model.

Anne you wrote:

That is why we see acceleration in the number of independent
contractors.

Absolutely. Plain as day. Yet Marc Andreessen giving career advice on his blog a few days ago says that centralized geographic hubs (like Silicon Valley for IT tech and New York for financial markets) still matter regardless of the Internet. Here’s the excerpt pasted below. I think someone needs to challenge Marc and his obviously biased opinion (my question is: when do the exceptions start to become the rule? Skype was created by some guys in Estonia and eBay ended up importing Skype to Silicon Valley by overpaying for it because eBay could not find a Skype equivalent produced in the U.S. / Silicon Valley area … Ruby on Rails was started by a guy in Copenhagen) … so who’s zooming who?

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html

In my opinion, living anywhere other than the center of your industry is
a mistake. A lot of people — those who don’t live in that place –
don’t want to hear it. But it’s true. Geographic locality is still — even in
the age of the Internet — critically important if you want to maximize
your access to the best companies, the best people, and the best
opportunities. You can always cite exceptions, but that’s what they are:
exceptions.

No one cares who the top filmmaker in Chicago is — hell, people often
don’t even care who the top filmmaker in New York is, and quite a lot
of films get made out of New York. On the other hand, the top 50
filmmakers in Los Angeles are all very important people in their
industry.

An interesting corollary theme: the barriers to entry to being a Connected Age company are rapidly approaching zero. We are living amidst a Cambrian bloom of companies that are playing around with these ideas. The vast majority of non-digiterati folks with never even know that these companies existed; temporary comings together of 2, or 5, or 25 people. But we all benefit from the proliferation of ideas, especially when their birth doesn’t involve the public markets, as it did in the late nineties. The risk is now only on the shoulders of VCs, angel investors and (more than anything) the budding entrepreneurs who are giving it a go.

It will be interesting to see how all of these ideas and companies reinvent how products are made and money is earned, and even as you imply, how businesses are even defined.

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This is brilliant and makes me eager to buy the book, Anne! I particularly appreciate the comparison of Styles of Work in the table, because I realize that “burstiness of discontinuous productivity” is how I naturally work these days. I sometimes feel as if I “ought” to buckle down to the old step-by-step style, but that one cell in Table 1-1 explains why it’s a worry from another age. I LOVE Table 1-1!

“the web makes transaction costs across individuals and ad hoc groups of people so small as to be unimportant to many web-era businesses”.
While the web definitely does that especially for very niche markets, it’s far for removing the biggest barrier on individual-to-individual transactions, namely trust.
As a proof just take eBay. The only reason eBay is there is to build trust for people to close a transaction with other people. In your model eBay wouldn’t make any sense.
BTW same thing applies to Google Adsense.

Interesting but I was a bit amused by the fact that money is “old school” and no longer matters. A very web 2.0 thought. I hope that changes for web 3.

Interesting. I believe though the transformation is about “ubiquitous information”… and the connected age is how this will be delivered.

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@David: good point, money still matters… probably should be more like this:

knowledge work currency — time and money
web work currency — time, money, AND attention

@Simone: Trust is important for both knowledge work styles and web work styles. eBay uses a centralized marketplace but there’s no reason that in the future a more decentralized auction market couldn’t develop, because there could be decentralized trust mechanisms. Not sure what you mean about AdSense, but sounds interesting… could you elaborate?

I have been studying Google for a couple of months now. So, I find this article informative and helpful. After the Connected age, I wonder what it would be next. Space age or what?

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What is burstiness? Is that like truthiness? Sort of like bursts, but not really bursts in that it’s your version of bursts?

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Anee Zelenka on The Connected Age

I am a big fan of Anne Zelenka, and I like much of what she is pushing at with her recent post, From The Information Age To The Connected Age at GigaOM. But some of the dots dn’t connect for

“Burstiness of discontinuous productivity”

FINALLY a terrificly accurate description of my workflow as an independent videomaker!

Great post.

Great post. Very informative.

I agree with writer of these statements
A very good analysis, the web actually connects people in a beautiful way. This enablement of minds to meeet is a great thing, only if the bloggers do not cheply write for no purpose, it will become a plateform of exchange of worthwhile thoughts and would develop the human society much faster than it was able to do so far.
abuntantly yours
vantheman

Been talking a lot about this over the past year.

We have an deep indestructible instinct to connect to information. This has been best served by Google (ie least friction)

But we have an even deeper desire to connect to people. Currently available tools ( such as Facebook ) still require us to put up with a lot of friction. The future belongs to the service that truly lubricates social connection in a way that delivers easy social gratification. Or as I like to put it: the future lies with the tools that can deliver the most important advance in social lubrication since the discovery of alcohol.

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My blog entry around “Experiments and experience (and frustration!) with Information Analysis for Automobile Purchase in Web 2.0 world - relates quite well to the post by Anne Zelenka. Check out my further thoughts at http://www.innowix.com/blog/

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From the information age to the connected age

From the information age to the connected age: “The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, massaging it into intangible knowledge goods….

“From The Information Age To The Connected Age”, Written by Anne Zelenka, appears to propose a model to differntiate the Micorsofts from the Googles.

What it fails to point out is that we cyberspacians are attempting to develop the paths that non-cyberspacians have known and utilized for decades. Information Work (IW)and Web Work (WW) have existed in the non-cyberspace form since Model T, perhaps even earlier.

We cannot look upon IW and WW as the end, but means to an end! The end that we seek is through the next step - ACTION WORK (AW), and this cannot be done in cyberspace alone. Cyberspace needs to meet Non-Cyberspace to act in Realspace and accomplish AW. What IW and WW have done is speeded up our journey to AW.

In addition to the Microsofts and the Googles, there do exist the Apples! The Apples take IW and WW one step forward into AW and put out the hardware products that generate the revenues to support IW and WW (directly and indirectly).

Identifying “Shifts” is a hobby, identifying “Shifts” in perspective is a responsibility!

IW and WW are not “Ages” - IW is the seed, WW is the plant food and AW is the plant that bears fruit and supports the effort to generate more seeds. The “Shift” is just the growth of that plant. Let’s work towards identifying domestic talents and avenes to accomplish AW. Let’s not get lost in understnading the Process and risk forgetting the Product

ACTTION WORK is the real Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow!!

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This is a very good write-up.You still need a lot of work to do.The transformation of Information age-Connected age need to be understood and you are taking the right step by opening the bottle of the future.Encourage people to contribute . I can see individual bloggers turning to branded package and kickstarting of the gifted train.

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Interesting article

Remeber me the article “It’s not what you know it’s who you know” from Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/741/650

I’m also working on the attention aspect

see also an article on my blog
“Management of our growing social network”
http://nico.maisonneuve.free.fr/blog/index.php/2007/11/16/management-of-our-growing-social-network-part-i/

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