passion + inspiration =
innovation 2.0
by eric marden { xentek.net }
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

passion
primary (or primal) ingredient
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

what are my passions?
music
art
culture
technology
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what are your passions?
discover
embrace
cultivate
extend
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if you don’t have a passion
you don’t have a pulse
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your passion will give
you purpose
surround yourself with people
that share your passion
your job shouldn’t pick your
friends, your passions should
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inspiration
fuel for your fire
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there are no new ideas
only new iterations
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the conversation. evolved
an incomplete history of the internet
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In the beginning...
... was the BBS.
Users dialed up a server and
left messages for each other.
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That gave way to...
... the Forum.
Innovated by CompuServe as a
way to ‘centralize’ the BBS system.
Still required ‘permission’ and
special ‘access’.
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Which became...
... the Message Board.
Internet Version of the Forum.
Access is (mostly) open to the internet
at large.
Still an asynchronous communication
model
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Then the ‘me’ gene kicked in...
...And the Weblog was born.
Satisfied both a publishing problem
and a need to communicate.
Comments were soon added, which
created a ‘one person’ message
board, of sorts.
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And then we got social...
MySpace bastardized the blog and the private
message.
So, we all ran to Facebook
RSS turned updates on its head
And we collected them into a life stream
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innovation
the spark of genius
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what are you doing?
how twitter changed everything
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twitter’s impact
asynchronous attention
unforced reciprocity
ambient awareness
instant crowd sourcing
geo-coded notifications
social news filter
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And so much more...
a platform beats an application every time
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The post (comment) is the
base unit of measurement
of the conversation
It’s not where you say it - It’s what you have to
say.
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Where to go from here?
Some things to think about
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What concepts can you
extend?
And how does it dovetail with your passions
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Scratch your own itch
And success is possible.
Do anything else, and it’s a Job.
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What would life be like if we
had no courage to attempt
anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Thank You
☛ @xentek
Eric Marden
xentek.net
Tuesday, February 24, 2009