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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Wikinomics<br />

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in their book Wikinomics: How mass<br />

Collaboration Changes Everything [21] point to cooperation in the <strong>for</strong>m of “peer<br />

production” - where massive collaboration drives innovation.<br />

Examples:<br />

• open source software: linux, gcc, …<br />

• wikis: Wikipedia<br />

• blogs: blogosphere<br />

• prosumers: “cocreating goods and services rather than simply<br />

consuming the end product” ([21], p. 1)<br />

• gaming: Second Life, …<br />

• peer-to-peer services: Skype, BitTorrent, …<br />

• Web 2.0 + social networking: Flikr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, …<br />

• e-science: Human Genome, the Goldcorp Challenge 1 , …<br />

1. http://www.goldcorpchallenge.com/ - a gold mining company that put its proprietary data on-line and made it accessible to the public with a total of US$575,000 in prizes ⇒ 6<br />

million ounces of gold Red Lake Mine in Ontario, Canada as a result!<br />

Maguire Wikinomics 13: 47 of 91<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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