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Aug 25, 2008

Kathrynn rated it:

Found this to be an excellent book, very well written (enjoyed the humor), full of insights to enlighten This Reader on how the world is continually evolving and how companies that "need" to remain in control of their goods/services need to shift their mindset into a more user-friendly, open source, "peer production" collaboration in order to survive. No longer are consumers content to sit on the sidelines while big business--obsessed with control--or the media pitch " More...

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Jun 03, 2011

Ben rated it:

Full disclosure: I received this book for free, though it was on my to-read list already.

I first heard about Don Tapscott on CBC's Spark, where Nora Young interviewed him about the Net Generation and "digital natives." They also have an interview about MacroWikinomics, the sequel to Wikinomics, which I will be reading soon.

Tapscott intrigued me. According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1947. Yet he talks about the effects of technology on economy and business as i More...

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May 12, 2008

Scott rated it:

Before I begin my thoughts on this book, I should announce that I am openly hostile to several of the notions mentioned in the book, and therefore went into it with a skeptical mind. The book did little to allay my skepticism. 'Wikinomics' is a giddy, fanboy account of the 'new' economy of collaboration generated by 'Web 2.0.' However, rather than provide analysis and examination of the strengths, weaknesses, and variety of this brave new world it is instead 300 pages of anecdotal evidence us More...

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Feb 01, 2009

Dhiren rated it:

A really good, insightful book which drives really drives the message of how collaboration, and technologies which facilitate collaboration are changing the way we do business, use information and interact with each other.

This book is an essential read anybody who work in Digital and manages teams.

The book is written by academics so it is rather wordy and a thesaurus is recommended if like me you weren’t an English Lit student.

Chapters are lengthy and detailed bu More...

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Jan 15, 2009

Jenn rated it:

This book provided me with exactly what I was looking for--an overview of the concept of wikis and the various ways that individuals and companies might use them. It was good timing for two reasons: (1) working on ed publishing academy courses and considering alternative delivery methods and (2) starting work on the new sociology project that would involve collaboration and communication with the author, client, and internal staff on a wiki.

I particularly enjoyed chapter 3: The Peer More...

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Sep 15, 2011

Lou rated it:

This is another one of those books that criticizes every old business practice of the past and hails everything young and new. To me, it actually reeks of socialism. While I understand author Don Tapscot’s need to prove his point by including numerous positive examples, the critical reader can not take his argument hook-line-and-sinker because he never recognizes the obvious -- that past business practices have enabled what we are seeing today. He also makes the book at least 100 pages longer More...

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Jul 23, 2011

Mark rated it:

This book intends to show how new collaborative technologies are changing the way things work in business. It stresses the point that people and corporations need to adapt or be left behind. It speaks about things like the Open Source movement and how Web 2.0 requires some new perspectives on business and success. It contrasts archaic ways of doing business with the new "open" ways that are powering current developments in the market. It covers many case studies about businesses that h More...

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Apr 21, 2011

Paul rated it:

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’ Wikinomics combines three topics—social media tools (wikis), economics, and collaboration—to produce a stimulating exploration of how the changes we are facing can be used to our advantage to foster success through collaboration and sharing rather than hoarding. Their economic model is one of exchanging goods and services without charge—a theme also creatively explored by Chris Anderson in Free: The Future of a Radical Price—in ways that benefit all involved wh More...

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Mar 29, 2010

Blog on Books rated it:

There’s been lots of talk about crowd-sourcing in recent years, spurred by both the widespread use of the internet as a collaboration tool as well as specific destination sites like the top-of-mind Wikipedia and others.

In Wikinomics, author and business consultant Don Tapscott (The Digital Economy) and Anthony Williams attempt to illustrate and define examples of companies and projects that have quickly risen or others that have re-energized their operations using the tools of group More...

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Mar 08, 2010

Douglas rated it:

Assignment Module-6: Book Chat.
Book title: WIKINOMICS. How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Author: Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

The book, “WIKINOMICS: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”, is about how mass collaboration has changed how we do things in both our social life and in the corporate world. The book dwells mostly on how mass collaboration has affected the global economy. As I prepared to read the book, I believed that I knew that discussion of More...

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Nov 30, 2009

Wage rated it:

Mungkin sudah tidak asing lagi jika kita mendengar istilah : Linux, Open Source project, Human Genome project, Wikipedia, Facebook, Blog, Instant Messege, Flickr. Apa kesamaan dari nama-nama diatas? Semua produk ataupun aktifitas tersebut merupakan hasil dari kolaborasi banyak pihak ataupun melibatkan banyak pihak dalam penggunaannya.

Di tengah semaraknya teknologi digital muncul suatu kecenderungan ekonomi baru yang bertumpu kepada kekuatan kolaborasi massal. Dengan menggunakan fasilit More...

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Oct 01, 2009

Victoria rated it:

Пока пробиралась через всю эту книгу, постоянно думала: "И для кого она написана?". ИТ-менеджерам? Вряд ли, все слишком очевидно, автор кропотливо перечисляет и Google, Youtube, MySpace, Wikipedia, рассказывает как будто детям, что такое Линукс, и кто его создал. Простые истины. Похоже, что книга написана для тех, кто очень любит бесконечные кейсы, красивые книги с историями успеха, кто не очень разбирается в современных технологиях, а, главное, не очень им доверяет. Ведь проще делегир More...

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Jul 27, 2009

Mark rated it:

Although it is riddled with too much consultant-speak, it gives a good survey of the state of things in the web 2.0 world. As someone whose livelihood is impacted by the creation of "free" editorial content, it provides insight into the direction that the web is trending. The attitude is generally one of "jump on the bandwagon or get out of the way." I gritted my teeth through many of the observations being made.

In addition to covering Wikipedia, Wikinomics devote More...

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Jul 05, 2009

Matt rated it:

“The monolithic, self-contained, inwardly focused corporation is dying" -- is the gist of this enjoyable book. However, it's not just all about the old-guard's eschaton; /Wikinomics/ is primarily about the new type of corporation taking over the world. To wit:

"Regardless of the industry you compete in, or whether your firm is large or small, internal capabilities and a handful of pre-web partnerships are not sufficient to meet the market’s expectations for growth and innova More...

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Dec 21, 2010

Lumpenprole rated it:

Not really much positive to say about this one, other than the authors picked an interesting subject, were able to stick a few interesting examples in, and, umm, guess that's about it on the upside.

Something rubbed me the wrong way that may or may not be a fair criticism, so I'm simply going to stick it off to one side, and not really call it a negative, though I guess I'd like to. Dunno why this bugged me so much, since I'm not typically a spelling or grammar Nazi, but, folks, it is E More...

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Apr 09, 2011

Bojan rated it:

That the nature of work, collaboration, and other economic activities is changing very rapidly these days is indisputable. However, it is not immediately clear to everyone what are the forces that are driving this change and what sorts of effects it may have. This book tries to answer these and many other questions in the realm of how the latest advances in various information tools are enabling the radical shift in collaborative production. It is a very readable book aimed at the general audien More...

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Jan 27, 2010

Nora rated it:

This book is interesting in the phenomena that it describes, but it suffers from poor writing and lack of critical thinking.

The poor writing comes in the form of many sweeping generalisations that will change the world and repeat themselves often and the horribly cooked-up terminlogy ("Ideagoras"?).

The poor thinking is the more serious flaw: the authors show themselves lacking a detailed understanding of the topicsthey discuss (no, seriously, I don't think Ama More...

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Mar 01, 2010

Ryan rated it:

This book tries to present itself as a souped up Wisdom of Crowds. Unfortunately, the authors misunderstand what "souped up" means, as they apparently just rehashed it and dumped on a hundred or so pages of pure redundancies and less convincing anecdotes. Okay, maybe that's 20% unfair, but there is nothing in here that isn't either covered much better in The Wisdom of Crowds by Surowiecki, Blink by Gladwell, or Free by Anderson. I like these topics in general, so it's pretty hard to bo More...

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Feb 12, 2009

Chris rated it:

I found this a rather tiresome "isn't this neat?" booster book on the new open internet. Basically it blended together a bunch of business-speak terms together with a somewhat uncritical and surface glance at the way technology, the economy and society are interacting in the age of new open tools of mass collboration. I was looking for something that could get into the whys and the hows of mass dynamics, and how this changes the economics of information, but the book sort of glanced More...

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Jun 14, 2007

Breathe_out rated it:

Not the "Blink" or "Freakonomics" I was expecting/hoping for. A few examples did stick in my head, but overall, the only word I can use to describe this book is Thick. Perhaps a good read for a business nerd, but not for fun reading.

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Apr 25, 2009

Stephanie rated it:

There are some useful insights in this book, to be sure. It feels a little dated already, mostly because of its blithe assumption that the company who had a meteoric rise in the early years of this decade would surely be continuing that trajectory for a good long time. Of course, those of us living in 2009 know better. I suppose any business book written just a few years ago is going to need a new edition now.

This book did make me realize one thing: our economy is currently driven no More...

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Nov 24, 2010

Jim rated it:

Oh God, more Americans thinking they've spotted a trend that kind of looks obvious, However, in spotting and labeling it, the author believes that it (and he) is equally important as the trend itself. Meanwhile the trend goes on, undeterred by being burdened with having to explain or analyse itself. Is the world more flat since that American pointed it out? Do Indians and Chinese stop to think about their place in flattening it? This book could easily have been called "Internet Collaboratio More...

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Dec 08, 2009

Khalid rated it:

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration (also called peer production) and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful. Bob explained that the word "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian. An example of a Canadian gold mining firm that utilized the internet by sharing their mining and geological information resources to enhance their productivity and offering a monetary prize for proposed soluti More...

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Dec 22, 2010

Ken rated it:

Really good book. I like how it detailed how collaboration can have a dramatic impact on a business. I think this is the future. Like when I learned about adaptive schools and companies had to really define what type of company they are, business is evolving and this identity review is truely needed. BMW & Boeing have done this and they have opened their doors to collaboration and have greatly benefited from it. Intergrating suppliers in the design process and increasing outsourcing isn't j More...

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Mar 02, 2009

MsSmartiePants rated it:

Another must read for the 21st century. I really feel the overwhelming effect the internet is having all around me in my daily life. That being said, I have a desire to 'catch up' and learn all I can about how the web is being used and can be used.
This is another book which was referred to in The World is Flat. I love how this book breaks down marketing and data compilation using the internet into stories about familiar companies and concepts. This book generates inspirational thinkin More...

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Mar 03, 2010

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Sep 13, 2011

Dan rated it:

This was a decent book but it focused a little too much on scientific research as opposed to more generalized innovation and when it discuss software & technology innovation (which is what I was specifically looking to get out of it) it was a little too tied to the happenings of the 2005ish timeperiod. I would like to see a follow up to see what his take on the things of today might be. On the subject of 2005 innovation, it's actually interesting to hear someone talk about Apple and Steve Jobs More...

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Jan 29, 2012

Giovanni rated it:

Il termine "wikinomics" (wikinomia"), che indica l'attività economica basata sul concetto di Wiki (cooperazione di massa e gratuità) è stato coniato da questo libro, del 2006.
Comprandolo mi aspettavo, perciò, di leggere un saggio sul difficile connubio fra economia tradizionale (del profitto) ed "economia del dono".
Con mia sorpresa, iniziando la lettura ho scoperto però che questo volume parla di tutto fuorché di wikinomics.

La lettura (che non credo terminerò, a questo More...

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Dec 14, 2010

Gary rated it:

An interesting book that I got the idea to read from a 2008 article in Armed Forces Journal called "Read Different" (see it at http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/0...). This is the second book from the list I've read; the first was "The Black Swan," by N. N. Taleb. Next will be "The Starfish and the Spider." This book boils down to essentially "two (or more) heads are better than one." Most of the way through the book I was left thinking, "OK, More...

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Oct 05, 2009

Dave rated it:

If you have any familiarity with Web2.0 platforms maybe you should write your own book so that the hyperbole packaged by Dan Tapscott is bought back down to earth.

This is a fantastical journey that promises you that the Web 2.0 universe is the very best thing since sliced bread and it will tell you that over and over again by dint of high profile corporate examples.

Here there is little about the access and democracy quotient offered by these new platforms. Theres' very li More...

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