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Do you ever struggle for inspiration...the spark you need to be innovative? Here are five bold authors and visionaries and their thought-provoking books: Jeff Jarvis, Don Tapscott, Rafi Haladjian, Henriette Weber and Tara Hunt.

Jeff Jarvis’ exceptional book „What would Google do?“ isn’t really about Google but about the major changes that we are going through right now both in society and in the economy. It offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to participate in the Internet culture and to maximize the opportunities that exist in the Google era.

Don Tapscott’s „Wikinomics“ is a brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of the twenty-first century: Mass collaboration and the growth of massive online communities. It illuminates how collaboration and communication technologies are democratizing the creation of value: The more you share, the more you win.

French-Armenian businessman Rafi Haladjian is passionate about pervasive networks and smart objects: His company Violet created the first internet connected rabbit Nabaztag and intends to connect every single object surrounding us to the network thereby building the Internet of Things.

Social marketing rebel extraordinaire Henriette Weber from Toothless Tiger draws parallels between rockbands and businesses, rockstars and employees. Her e-book „Why every company should be a rock band“ has been filmed by Andrea Vascellari and can be downloaded for free here.

„Whuffie“ is Tara Hunt’s word for social capital in the Web 2.0 landscape. With „The Whuffie Factor“ the cofounder of community-marketing consulting firm Citizen Agency offers a strategic guide for anyone interested in using the power of online social networks for business success.

Female entrepreneurs have it tougher than men: Next Monday we'll be introducing "The Five Most Promising Female Entrepreneurs". Stay tuned!

Let's look back again to the talk the future conference, there so many interesting theories like the wikinomics by Don Tapscott, the exaflood by Bret Swanson or enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee had been discussed, providing us profound insights about the changes happening around us and inspiring us on how to use them for business success. What is the theory of wikinomics by Don Tapscott about? The subtitle of his book with the same name is 'how mass collaboration changes everything'. Don refers to the power of the masses and illustrates it with examples like the open source movement around wikipedia or linux. But he also shows how commercial businesses can take advantage of the genius of the masses. Watch the video and listen to his story of a gold digging company which through opening and sharing its knowledge and Geo-data could not only prevent its bankruptcy but even more realize tremendous assets through finding new gold resources. The presentation is too long for you? Go to the video-interview, we published a few weeks ago with Don Tapscott, providing a short overview about wikinomics. Don is not the only one observing the changes in our culture taking directions to mass collaboration. Look at the idea of James Surowiecki with his book 'The Wisdom of Crowds: : Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations'. Or Clay Shirky, a successful author and speaker with a colourful background of work experiences, who wrote a book with the title 'Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations'. As he says, it is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures." Great example for Shirky's idea is OpenAd.net by Katarina Skoberne. It's an online marketplace for buying and selling advertising, marketing and design ideas with more than 11,000 creatives from over 125 countries. Learn more about the idea of OpenAd and Katarina Skoberne through the video-interview taken at the PICNIC conference. The presentation of Don Tapscott was held at the talk the future conference 'the future of work and business', in Krems, Austria on September 5th, 2008.

More interviews realized at the talk the future conference:
• enterprise 2.0 - Andrew McAfee
• exaflood - Bret Swanson
• SAP.com - Dirk Riehle
• mindbreeze.com - Daniel Fallmann
• the whole presentation: exaflood - Bret Swanson

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Let's look back to the talk the future conference, there so many interesting theories like exaflood, wikinomics or enterprise 2.0 had been discussed, providing us with insights about happening changes and giving us ideas how to use that for business success. So what is the exaflood of Bret Swanson about? He says that the amounts of data in the Internet are incredibly increasing. Did you know that 75 video conferencing calls would equal the entire US Internet traffic of 1990? For an first idea about his thoughts you may have seen the interview, published a few weeks ago. But you want to learn more? Watch the video of his whole presentation and see the astonishing number comparisons which Bret provides to illustrate the changes. There is a huge discussion out there, whether the Internet is running out of bandwidth or not. In the same time the New York Times opens up a different kind of discussion. The dependency of the Internet traffic going through certain network points. As the Internet was developed in the US almost all traffic went through US connections too. While growing to a global data network the US looses its competitive advantage and also the control. The importance of the dependency issue was shown during the fight of Georgia with Russia, when several Georgian government Web sites had been attacked by hackers. As most of Georgia’s access to the Intnert is flowing through Russia and Turkey it might be obvious where that attack came from. So the independence issue is a quite concerning one for several countries, which lets the global data network continue to crow providing all different kind of connections. The presentation of Bret Swanson was held at the talk the future conference 'the future of work and business', in Krems, Austria on September 6th, 2008.

More interviews realized at the talk the future conference:
• enterprise 2.0 - Andrew McAfee
• SAP.com - Dirk Riehle
• mindbreeze.com - Daniel Fallmann
• wikinomics - Don Tapscott

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talk the future was a business conference happening in Krems, Austria, bringing together expert ideas and innovations. Don Tapscott, chairman at nGenera Innovation Network, strategy consultant and bestseller author of Wikinomics, explained how mass collaboration changes everything and how this has an impact on business and startups. ...