Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
 

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

In just the last few years, traditional collaboration?in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center?has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of... (read more)

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Lori S
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Love the details given surrounding the birth and growth of wikipedia.

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Aaron F
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This guy got paid HOW MUCH to write this book? Puh-lease!

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  • nya_md

    nya_md said:

    I'm a social science researcher, so I generally find business books to be pretty frustrating. Not enough attention paid to the mechanisms afoot, not enough lessons learned. And I felt like I was reading one long sales pitch. However, the case studies were informative, and it gave me ideas for potential application of wikis.

    posted Sunday, May 25 2008
  • Sadaiyappan

    sadaiyappan said:

    Was pretty good. Some of the concepts were stuff that I had thought of on my own so it made me feel very smart when I read this book and see that this author is thinking the same things.

    posted Wednesday, November 14 2007
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