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Can we still have “privacy” in the Network Age?  How do individuals, as well as services such as Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter, protect themselves and their information online?  What can we do about it, if anything?  Join us on November 4 to discuss “Privacy and Data Security in the Network Age” with noted expert Samir Jain.

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About Samir Jain:

Samir Jain is a partner in the Communications, Privacy, and Internet Law group at WilmerHale, where his practice involves litigation, regulatory work, and counseling on a wide range of cutting-edge e-commerce, privacy, and communications issues. His areas of expertise include online intermediary liability for third-party content, privacy and data security, electronic surveillance, national security and public safety, advertising, online child safety, and regulation of information and telecommunications services. Mr. Jain has been recognized for his exceptional national standing in both “Privacy and Data Security” and “Telecom, Broadcast, and Satellite: Regulatory” in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2007-2009 editions). Mr. Jain has represented members of the online industry such as Amazon, AOL, craigslist, eBay, Google, and Yahoo! in many of the leading cases defining the scope of the immunity afforded to service providers for third-party content by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Mr. Jain speaks and writes regularly about Internet and communications law issues. He also is an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he co-teaches a course on Electronic Commerce Law.

At the recent Yahoo! Open Hack Day in New York, I got to sit down with Noel “NoNeck” Hildago who works with Hoppin as Director of Innovation and check on their progress. Noel told me about some of the projects the NY State Senate is working on, including open source efforts and ways to increase transparency in how bills are made. Most notably, this effort is happening in a bi-partisan way – both Democrats and Republicans are getting new technology innovations and fixes in their offices.

I believe that for New York, this effort does represent what Kevin Werbach talks about when he mentions “Networks For Change” and describes the way technology can impact public policy and social impact. Please weigh in and contribute to the conversation below in the comments.

“[Supernova is a] conference about “understanding how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world”. From web privacy to web standards, Supernova is great about booking speakers who not only live and breathe the issues they’re discussing, but actively fight for the progress of them in their daily life. Here’s a few people and talks I’m looking forward to from the current line-up:

Speakers:

• Marko Ahtisaari (Dopplr)
• Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research)

Talks:

• Social Networks in the Workplace (definitely a talk that’s of personal interest due to my experiences at NASA)
• Updating Copyright Law: A Fair (Use) Fight? (Jason Schultz gave a *great* panel discussion on this topic at SXSW titled Fair Use on Trial)
• The Changing World (Pervasive connectivity is altering everything from our social interactions to our cities.)
• Privacy and the Social Web
• Fun with Fun (What are the emergent properties of games and virtual worlds that will impact the broader technology space?)”

Ariel, glad you’re going to be joining us!

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In our talk, Eric describes how a top provider of services, the mid 1980s American Airlines’ Sabre and United Airlines’ Apollo computerized reservations systems, is like Google as the top provider of both search and the ads and results that go with them. There is a pretty in-depth discussion in this video of whether Google has monopoly power, and if it is using it to create artificial costs on those for whom consumers search.

Thanks to Professor Clemons for that in-depth discussion. He’ll be giving a Wharton Talk at Supernova on December 3rd in San Francisco.

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For this week’s Supernova Network Age briefing, we spoke with Google’s Bradley Horowitz about how business and personal productivity applications are changing in the Network Age.  Why types of solutions lend themselves to being either highly networked, or delivered over the network?  What types of organizations are embracing web-based applications for their critical infrastructure — and what are the points of resistance?

About Bradley Horowitz: Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo’s advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.

Bradley holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab and was pursuing his Ph.D. there when he co-founded Virage.

At first, this meant discrete things like Web sites and mobile devices, but as early as 2001 I began to develop an interest in ubiquitous computing: what happens when information-processing power begins to evaporate from these discrete boxes we think of as “computers,” and instead takes up residence in the myriad ordinary objects and surfaces around us. (If you’re interested in this question, you’ll find it and its implications explored in depth in my 2006 book Everyware.)

Of course, in the years since, Web use has utterly saturated everyday life in the developed world. Tens of millions of people use Internet-capable devices we call “smartphones” – and those devices are increasingly being considered as sensor platforms capable of registering everything from location and direction of movement to air quality. Some four billion real-world things, from running shoes and passports to bridges and entire transit systems, are instrumented with RFID tags, generating data that can be taken up to be reused, visualized or acted upon by any other system connected to the global network.

One of my abiding interests (and a main goal in taking my present position) has been exploring the ways we might make and use cities under such conditions. But with municipal governments around the world opening up access to their data, and companies like IBM starting to preach the networked-urbanism gospel, I’m beginning to feel we’re in a position to take the next step further out: to use the data all these devices, services and systems are generating to understand the fiendishly complex tangle of material, energetic, biological and informational flows that constitutes a city. And eventually, with sensitivity and tact, to design the kind of interventions that will improve quality of life for everyone who lives in or uses a given urban environment.

This is what the linked piece concerns itself with, and it’s what I’m going to be speaking about at Supernova. I look forward to meeting you there, and discussing the prospects and potentials with you.

Editor’s Note: Guest poster Adam Greenfield has done a great post that related to his talk at Supernova in December,  called “Toward Urban Systems Design” that is worth checking out. Watch this space for more Supernova Conference speaker guest posts.

For the first time, comedian Heather Gold (npr, SXSWi veteran, Apple) is teaching her unique interactive performance approach to a limited number of participants in a day-long, hands-on workshop.

You’ll learn the emotional mechanics that let you create quick intimacy. Go from talking TO a large group of people to talking WITH them. You already know how to have a great conversation with one person. Learn how to transform your presentations into conversations.

Participants will structure and lead a conversation and receive critique and guidance from Heather.

Who should come

• Anyone who gives presentations or runs meetings and wants to energize and engage everyone in the room.

• Designers, UX people, toolmakers and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to create space for authentic connection between people.

• Community, social media and marketing people who start, host and continue to energize conversations.

The first 3 Supernova participants to sign up will receive a $200 discount with the code: goingf1rst. Early registration price ends Nov 11th.. Details here at http://www.unpresenting.com.

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Lin Grensing-Pophal, Human Resource Executive Online, October 2009

… the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid segment of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend. Members of the creative class do a wide variety of work in a wide variety of industries—from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the arts. They do not consciously think of themselves as a class. Yet they share a common ethos that values creativity, individuality, difference, and merit.

Richard Florida, Washington Monthly, May 2002

Watson Wyatt and WorldatWork just released a survey that tracks, among other things, employee engagement, and Lin Grensing-Pophal explains how companies can do a better job of engagement in a recent article. But that may not be enough, going forward out of the recession. The survey’s results inspire a look back to an issue economist Richard Florida raised several years ago: how the drivers of employee performance are changing.

Today, the combination of networking tools, with a power burst from social technology, and a recession that now appears to be the result of an infrastructure crashing under its own incongruities — foreseen by folks like Florida — is forcing companies to look not just at compensation methods but at how they categorize employee positions from the get-go. It’s no longer the distinction between management and rank-and-file that makes sense in a service-dominated economy, if it ever did in a manufacturing dominated world, but the quality of performance along the scale of creativity and actual contribution. We’re in the midst of another major industrial shift that is exciting at the same time it is mind boggling. And its impact will be felt not just inside corporations but around the cities and towns they populate.

… the economy is different now. It no longer revolves around simply making and moving things. Instead, it depends on generating and transporting ideas. The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, the highest rate of metabolism.

Richard Florida, The Atlantic, March 2009

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