Robert Paterson pinpoints the ‘markets are relationships’ meme: “Participation is not a feature of this emerging paradigm but its centrality. Community will be the container into which things will happen directly between people. Social relationships and hence trust will be the critical factors. ” Doc Searls remembers some inspired geek heckling: Just now, the speaker [...]

If last year’s Reboot conference in Copenhagen tacitly found inspiration in Skype, del.icio.us and Flickr this year’s was all about myspace. Two topics hit home: the internet will be finally social; and none of us at the conference may be young enough to belong there. Ontology – a strong meme last year – is now [...]