I’ve been backlogged on my reading list, so headed out to Border’s yesterday and bought the following hardcover books:
Sarah Lacy: Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good. A look at the rise, fall and resurrection of Silicon Valley’s startup culture.
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody. A look at how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled
by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within
them.
Nicholas Carr: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. A look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture.
Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (Oxford prof. Zittrain has been everywhere, from a video appearance at Web 2.0 Expo to a terrific appearance on Charlie Rose.)
Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it’s unstoppable, it affects every industry — and it’s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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