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Oct 28, 2005

Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says, "if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful [...]

Oct 27, 2005

As we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these thoughts up on the site over the next week or [...]

Oct 26, 2005

One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform. The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies [...]

Oct 24, 2005

One of the first posts that came out of Sessions was Joel Spolsky’s comment on architecture astronauts. Joel said, I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite. That's [...]

Oct 24, 2005

This is a really great story about the power and perils of peer production. This morning Brad told me that there was a reformatted version of the transcript of the Union Square Sessions event on our wiki. I assumed that Charlie did [...]

Oct 23, 2005

It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures. The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word [...]