riWidget.init({"user":{"display_name":"marc@dangeard.com","id":"1P1PzgM7zpn","comment_count":282},"comments":[{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"7BdOjb7RmXZ","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='article']\/p[21]\/text(659,260)","type":"text","text":"Finding ways to scale an organization\u2019s impact without scaling its size is the new frontier in the field of social innovation. If we can decipher the code on that problem, we will be able to affect the most critical challenges and opportunities facing society.","id":"ClGQ2pIzcp1"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.ssireview.org\/articles\/entry\/scaling_impact","title":"Scaling Impact (June 4, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Most people thinking about scaling are thinking about franchising. But you cannot cut and paste something that works somewhere into many other places, because it is a very limiting process. Who wants a world of MacDonalds and Startbucks?\nRather you need to use the knowledge accumulated to empower other people in other places to do similar things but with their own local flavor. \nEntrepreneur Commons is designed with this basic principle in mind to promote a culture a collaboration and entrepreneurship, and I hope that this is how social entrepreneurs in general will consider scaling: invite others to experiment with a process that works, and let them adapt what works to their own local context. Then share best practices, as a feedback loop into the system.\nThe risk otherwise is to impose a brand and IP that will limit creativity and ultimately limit the potential of what can be done locally to resolve the issues at hand.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-06-11T05:16:18+00:00","id":"4KRI_X_jzQ8"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"8TSnGaZiolk","references":[{"path":"","type":"page","text":null,"id":"BY3gPW0LuhJ"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1975241,00.html","title":"Can Gaddafi's Son Reform Libya? - TIME"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Great to see change being implemented from the inside in Libya. The fact that there is an open discussion at the top is a very encouraging start.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-05-13T05:33:30+00:00","id":"4f8S5aamhty"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"1zBho3LnZxr","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='post-177212']\/div[3]\/div\/p[22]\/text(0,318)","type":"text","text":"In both of these \u201cclosed\u201d examples, Facebook and the App Store, they key to longevity is a movement towards open. If either Facebook or Apple resist that, they\u2019ll become AOL. Something will come along and shove them out of way. It has happened before. It will happen again. And it will keep happening. It\u2019s inevitable.","id":"7kgawYY7LDK"}],"uri":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/01\/the-internet-is-cyclical","title":"Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Facebook is also a silo, and therefore not a sustainable architecture over the long time. The "open" that Facebook needs is Open Status as proposed by http:\/\/www.status.net. Once this starts to get traction, people will realize that they do not need to have all their data in the silo, but they can have their own system that they can share with their friends. I am at http:\/\/mdangear.status.net and you should be too","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-05-02T16:08:50+00:00","id":"4ZljcBOenQA"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"B0NAo410vbI","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='post-20471']\/div[3]\/p\/text(0,276)","type":"text","text":"Well I bet they didn\u2019t quite expect that. In the wake of Facebook\u2019s F8 conference this week, where it apparently bid to become the new Sheriff of the Internet, Facebook\u2019s plans to effectively put \u2019social\u2019 into the very structure of the Web has a few people a little concerned.","id":"1e0bE_vtYGX"}],"uri":"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/23\/privacy-issues-google-engineers-leaving-facebook-in-droves","title":"Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"After F8 people finally realize the issue with silos. Facebook is another tower of babel, the equivalent of what AOL was during the web1.0 wave. We need open source and open system like status.net to be a sustainable architecture for the future.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-23T22:27:17+00:00","id":"2VExpagCbM2"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"CfcXs7NT32v","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='article']\/span\/text(0,564)","type":"text","text":"Google engineers and the open source community have begun laying the groundwork to support an open social Web. The group has been working on a protocol that would aggregate conversations at the source, bring them back to any Web site related to the stream, and avoid spam and duplicate posts as well.\n\nThe Salmon protocol aims to connect social networks that today cannot share posts and information. The goal to syndicate and aggregate conversations related to the original post that live in silos across the Internet would create what Google calls a social graph. ","id":"BiU-pHVc5St"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=123407","title":"MediaPost Publications Swimming Upstream: 'Salmon,' Google's Open Source Social Web Aggregator 03\/02\/2010"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"You have to give credit to Google for their cooperation with open source. Wave is a good example, and this is another one. Thank you for contributing to the right architecture for the long term.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-23T05:05:06+00:00","id":"BiQZfHJGWcR"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"84qKr8jvWpQ","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='tab_canvas']\/div\/div\/div\/text(0,298)","type":"text","text":"Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Entrepreneur Commons, sign up and we'll let you know when we're ready for your help. You can also get us started by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site.","id":"3xyO906G4Gt"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Entrepreneur-Commons\/117507581608837?ref=mf","title":"Facebook | Entrepreneur Commons"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"On the other hand what is nice is they give updates on Entrepreneur Commons that I had not seen. Interesting...","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-22T19:15:21+00:00","id":"6djLotAJNod"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"4rjeKj_LUz9","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='tmglBody']\/div[2]\/div[2]\/div[2]\/p\/text(0,100)","type":"text","text":"Facebook Docs, a collaboration between the social-networking site and Microsoft, will allow Facebook","id":"8ItINuqXMiY"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/facebook\/7619031\/Facebook-teams-up-with-Microsoft-Docs.html","title":"Facebook teams up with Microsoft Docs - Telegraph"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Google docs is a killer app, so it will be interesting to see Facebook get into this game. But google also offers Google Apps, which opens up the silo and makes a huge difference. Will Microsoft also open its not so great "live" service to let Facebook make it into something better?","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-22T18:30:28+00:00","id":"DnZJR74FeAZ"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"26Y3puAUYbC","references":[{"path":"","type":"page","text":null,"id":"CuSlbDhGbPT"}],"uri":"http:\/\/deals.venturebeat.com\/2010\/04\/19\/profounder-crowdfunding-kiva","title":"Profounder offers a crowdsourced approach to funding startups | VentureBeat"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Profounder: reads like Reg D 504, which would allow unlimited non-accredited investors for up to $1M. A system to make this accessible to startups could be very attractive.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-20T14:16:57+00:00","id":"C6UpdHrlqyn"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"2yHhf40hb6V","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='asset_251_4609712']","type":"image","text":"http:\/\/highaltitudeart.netobjectsmatrix.com\/image\/31293623.jpg","id":"A09ocvRX0IK"}],"uri":"http:\/\/www.galecraig.com","title":"GaleCraig.com"}],"parent_id":"6panOtbac24","depth":1,"has_flagged":false,"text":"Eric, if you are into abstract art, you should take a look at what my friend Monika does: http:\/\/monikasteiner.com\/","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-16T16:53:19+00:00","id":"7a1G7TgG2dt","root_comment_id":"6panOtbac24"},{"reference_points":[{"uri_id":"Afho8nwzRt5","references":[{"path":"\/\/*[@id='post-173315']\/div[3]\/div\/p\/text(129,278)","type":"text","text":"It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. Rosenthal has also just announced that the company has cut nearly 70 people \u2014 over 40% of its staff.","id":"BaqCDYKILNA"}],"uri":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/15\/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff","title":"Ning\u2019s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff"}],"depth":0,"has_flagged":false,"text":"The end of the Social Media bubble. Between this and the latest Twitter changes it seems that reality is finally settling in.","rating":null,"reply_count":0,"category":0,"created_at":"2010-04-16T15:58:25+00:00","id":"Ackfq_2zRrD"}]})