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June 29, 2008

Social Advertising Products

Check this quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who shares my view that social, participatory advertising models will emerge soon (hopefully activefreemedia will be one).

It is obvious that people spend a lot of time in
social networks. I believe there will be some new advertising products, that will work, but I don't think they are invented yet. We and others are working on social advertising products.

via FAZ.net

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June 28, 2008

Google News from the Possible Positive

For all the news about yesterday and today, there is surprisingly little positive news written about how things may turn out for us in the coming years.

There are of course more positive predictions of technological innovation, but rarely around the positive possibility of human beings to actual work things out.

Among conversations with friends over the last few years, I've wondered if we could create a news organization that comes from a certain place in the future, say 2020, where certain cultural and political breakthroughs actually happened (ie, economic behavior shifting toward sustainability, Israel and Palestine working together).

In this vein, check out this fake Google News page coming from some unidentified moment in the future. While it is a bit far fetched, the fact that it has generated such interest shows that people are hungry for a more pro-active vision for what's upcoming.

While it's clear that there are many things that we cannot control, I believe that we can be responsible for how the next 20 years turns out if we come from that future and start telling the story of how it happened by showing us today how it's already happening.

via Open the Future

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June 13, 2008

Democratic Race for president in 8 minutes

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