Alchemy of Change by Gideon Rosenblatt

The Sole of a Business

Gideon Rosenblatt — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:03:14 +0000

Shoe repair man, Mr. Lee, teaches me the beauty of business and its ability to be of service to society.

Place-Based Networks: A New Kind of Social Network

Gideon Rosenblatt — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:57 +0000

Place-Based Networks are mobile social networks that help you connect with other people based on your shared interest in a place.

Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)

Gideon Rosenblatt — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:31:17 +0000

Larry Page: Google should be like a family – Fortune Tech I don’t think it’s any of those individual things. It’s important that the company be a family, that people feel that they’re part of the company, and that the company is like a family to them. When you treat people that way, you get …

Quiznos and the Old Business Model

Gideon Rosenblatt — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:38:11 +0000

The Quiznos near-bankruptcy highlights the dangers of the old model for running business networks: one that uses outsourcing of value creation in an exploitive fashion.

When Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Collide

Gideon Rosenblatt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:16:37 +0000

Individual people are the connective tissue that connects organizations to their surroundings. So what happens when those people leave an organization, along with the social network connections they built while at the company?

Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)

Gideon Rosenblatt — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:31:40 +0000

(1) Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks People are more likely to share information from their strong ties, but because of their abundance, weak ties are primarily responsible for the majority of information spread on Facebook. The figure above illustrates how a majority of influence (orange) can be generated by weak ties, even if strong ties …

Google Tiers Search into the Global, Social and Personal

Gideon Rosenblatt — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:25:40 +0000

By connecting Google+ to search, Google is tiering web search into three, very useful, layers: global search, social search and personal search.

Testing G+ WordPress integration

Gideon Rosenblatt — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:53:11 +0000

#gwp Google+: View post on Google+

Why is Twitter So Mad at Google?

Gideon Rosenblatt — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:39:14 +0000

Twitter is mad at Google for connecting Google+ with search - and for commoditizing their service in the process. How this might not be such a bad thing.

Social Context Original Text

Gideon Rosenblatt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:45:04 +0000

This was the original test from the now revised “Why Our Software Needs Social Context” An Idea for Filtering and Signaling Social Context Imagine your phone had a simple slider bar that allowed you to filter your incoming stream of information in real time. Slide the control up to the top to maximum “relationship-mode,” and …