Intro Slide Post-Digital Horizons Presentation on the Jewish Future November 2007 Aharon Horwitz and Ariel Beery Co-Founders, ThumpThumpGuerillas

Digital Cheat Sheet Want a website in 5 minutes? www.weebly.com Want a free social network? www.ning.com Want a Internet TV channel? www.dogooder.tv Want a personal start-up page? www.netvibes.com Want your own radio station? www.pandora.com Want to manage a project for 50 people for free? www.basecamp.com Want to make international calls for free? www.jajah.com

Digital Revolution is over "The digital revolution is over.” -Michael Negroponte

How to think Post-Digital Post-Digital It is not about the programming or the technology It is about Utility . Value = Utility/Time To maximize value, services seek to increase utility and decrease time

#1 Encourage Risk Amazon: Lot’s of Servers

Platform Platform according to pmarca : “a system that can be programmed and therefore customized by outside developers -- users -- and in that way, adapted to countless needs and niches that the platform's original developers could not have possibly contemplated, much less had time to accommodate.” = Not an organization – an organizing framework. Be the platform

Creative Economy Means: Respect the Code www.PEOPLEOFTHECODE.com

Aside: Can this be programmed? Can this be hacked?

MAVENHAVEN

MavenHaven MavenHaven.com

Be a Start-Up Artist Focus on utility and value Enable risk-taking for start-ups Be the platform Tap the geeks Encourage hacks

Focus on utility and value

Enable risk-taking for start-ups

Be the platform

Tap the geeks

Encourage hacks

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