Vittana, which beat out such well-known charities as DonorsChoose and people like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, is building a student loan business for microfinance institutions that cater to poor people in the developing world.
It uses a model similar to that of Kiva.org, a nonprofit organization that funnels loans to individual borrowers [...]

Goldman Sachs thinks that US unemployment will peak in 2011. Yikes. Plus, a power point presentation of Goldman's Compensation Practices. Take a look and see if you're convinced. Portraits of Power. How to take the moral hazard out of banking 60 million Americans lack formal bank accounts. That's 1 in 5. Is London losing out to New York?

New release of Strongarm for Drupal lets modules enforce variable settings

What you better not say when you want to bring Web 2.0 (change) in an organization
This is for all of you, who share the daily burden to convince people for open knowledge sharing through the Internet for the benefit of all.

Following some great feedback, I thought I’d expand on my last post on ccTLDs. First, however it came across, the post wasn’t intended to be ...

Two of the fastest-growing and popular mobile data collection tools have recently seen some exciting upgrades in newly released versions. 

Below are the slides I used during my keynote this morning at the Open Innovation Summit in Orlando.  The topic was “How to Win In The Creative Economy” and touched on:

The transtion we are experiencing from the knowledge economy to the creative economy
The challenges of innovation (corporate anti-bodies, educational systems, etc)
The way to unlock your [...]