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Website, Publications, and Blog for Christopher F. Chabris, Ph.D.

Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on innovation and technology, is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition in 2007.

Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2011 Don was named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment.” Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.

The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a “Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction” and the Huffington Post said the book is “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.” Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. His work continues as a the Chairman of Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum, Chancellor of Trent University, Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Martin Prosperity Institute Fellow.

Platform junkie, Singapore-based Early stage internet guy, This blog is about taking ventures from an idea to a business... and mitigating execution risk.

Sangeet has been working on early stage internet ventures for the last seven years as a product guy, an investor and an incubator. He has led several ventures from idea to business and advised many others through this journey. He is curious about internet-enabled disruption (in the Clayton Christensen sense) and business model failure (in every known sense). He has spent the last few years extensively analyzing business patterns that explain:

1. Why most internet businesses fail and a few succeed

2. Why internet startups disrupt traditional businesses

3. Why internet businesses are fundamentally different from most traditional offline businesses

This blog is about those patterns.

We help clients around the world develop and shape concepts, conduct primary and secondary research, prepare and market proposals, write and edit manuscripts, and develop the idea platform that surrounds and supports the book.

John is the principal of Idea Platforms, Inc. He has been involved in the creation of some thirty books, as author, collaborator, editor, or consultant. John also draws on his extensive experience in other forms of expression — including short-form writing, video, infographic design, speaking, live events, and social media — to advise clients on the creation of the idea platform. He acts as the lead on all projects, helping clients with idea development, message articulation, and content structure.

His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, the Financial Times, Inc.com, The Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Big Think.

Harold Jarche has been described as “a keen subversive of the last century’s management and education models”. He knows that the ability to learn is the only lasting competitive advantage for any organization. People have connected with Harold over the past decade for pragmatic advice on leadership, social networks, knowledge management, and workplace collaboration. He also distills heady topics like complexity theory into practical advice.

A graduate of the Royal Military College, Harold served over 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces in leadership and training roles. Harold has held senior positions at the Centre for Learning Technologies and e-Com Inc. He is a co-author of The Working Smarter Fieldbook with his colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance. His preferred workplace is on his bicycle, where he gets his best ideas.

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author.

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: international consulting and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, futures think-tank Future Exploration Network, leading events company The Insight Exchange, and online start-up Repyoot.

Strong demand for Ross’s expertise has seen him deliver keynote speeches across six continents and consult to leading organizations worldwide such as Ernst & Young, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft, News Corporation, Procter & Gamble and many others.

He is author of the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, now out in its second edition, the acclaimed book Living Networks, which foresaw the social networking revolution, and the highly successful Implementing Enterprise 2.0. He also writes the highly influential Trends in the Living Networks blog, has written White Papers for organizations including SAP and Microsoft, and has published over 100 articles in leading publications worldwide.

Hello, I’m Jim Ross, another user experience guy. Over the last ten years my job title has morphed from Usability Analyst to User-Centered Designer to Human Factors Analyst to Design Researcher. But regardless of the title, I’ve done the same things. Although lately I’ve been specializing in the research side of user experience and collaborating with designers.

Publishing and Presenting

I currently write a bimonthly column for UXmatters called Practical Usability. See my Publications page for a list of the articles. I also have presented several times at the UPA Conference on topics such as eyetracking and recruiting user research participants.

It was clear that the change was occurring more broadly, and that the whole web world would be affected. It was then that I thought it would make sense to try to organize my earlier interests into what I've been calling social interaction design (SxD). I found nothing specific to the social practices of web 2.0 anywhere. Designers were still talking about standard UI, UX (user experience) and interaction design practices. And yet it seemed clear that we were now designing community experiences, playing with the lines and distinctions that run between private and public, individual and audience, formal and informal interaction, and much, much more.

I’m a designer from Paris, France, now living in Osaka, Japan. I specialize in user interfaces for web and mobile apps, and I’ve worked for clients such as Le Monde, Hipmunk, and MileWise.

One key ingredient missing from most startup recipes is a focus on and healthy respect for something elusive: Distribution. This can come in many forms, if done right — it could be a partnership, a product feature, an operational plan, and so forth. In today’s age, people aren’t going to miraculously find your product because you have 15 angel investors, figured out how to game the tech press embargo, and show up at startup parties in hipster clothes. Distribution has to be won over time. “Growth Hacking” is one subset, but — horrors! — it’s also straight up customer development, business development, sales, partnerships, and all the things people say aren’t necessary.

I'm a software developer and writer. I live in NYC. I've started a couple of tech companies, made a bunch of products, worked at two educational institutions. I write a blog, take pictures, do development work, and publish a linkblog. And a bunch of other stuff. I've tried to link to all of it from this page! :-)

Hi, I'm Anil Dash. I'm an entrepreneur, writer and geek living in New York City, obsessed with the ways that technology shapes and transforms culture, media, government and society. My work applies the techniques and innovations of tech startups to reinventing institutions and communities, and my writing tells the story of how this happens. (Read the full bio.)

The highest use of new technologies is to empower and connect people who aren't born with the privilege of access to the institutions that define our culture, so I am trying to make that my life's work. Best of all, I get to have a lot of fun doing things I love, focused around a few key areas.

I’m Dale. I speak and write because we’re paying too much for college and learning too little. Perigee/Penguin will publish my first book, Hacking Your Education, in early 2013. I founded UnCollege to prove that education isn’t limited to school. For recognition of my work as an educational futurist, I was named a Thiel Fellow in May 2011. If you’re frustrated with school I’d love to empower you to join the learning revolution.

The mission of UnCollege is to change the notion that college is the only path to success

My name is Eric Gordon and I’m an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston and the director of the Engagement Game Lab. My research focuses on location-based media, and the intersection of games and civic engagement. I am the author of two books: The Urban Spectator: American Concept-cities from Kodak to Google and Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World.

In late 2004, Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in Facebook for 10.2% of the company and joined Facebook's board.[3][14]

In 2005, Peter Thiel created the Founders Fund, a fund for angel investments and venture capital investments. Other partners in the fund include Sean Parker, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek.

In addition to Facebook, Thiel has made early-stage investments in numerous startups (personally or through his venture capital fund), including Booktrack, Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster, Rapleaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Yelp, Inc., Powerset, Practice Fusion, Vator, Palantir Technologies, IronPort, Votizen, and Quora. Slide, LinkedIn, Yelp, Geni.com, and Yammer were founded by Thiel's former colleagues at PayPal: Slide by Levchin, Linkedin by Reid Hoffman, Yelp by Jeremy Stoppelman, Geni.com, Yammer by David Sacks and Xero by Rod Drury. Fortune magazine reports that PayPal alumni have founded or invested in dozens of startups with an aggregate value of around $30bn. In Silicon Valley circles, Thiel is colloquially referred to as the "Don of the PayPal Mafia", as noted in the Fortune magazine article.[15] Thiel's views on management are highly regarded, especially his famous observation that start-up success is highly correlated with low CEO pay.

When people ask me what I do, it’s hard to answer concisely. I’m a professional photographer, accomplished software developer, published author, and small business owner. I obviously don’t believe in doing just one thing.

Duncan Davidson's career is a great example of fluxers. FastCompany should added him to their cover story The Generation Flux

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business

I’m Pippa Buchanan, an Australian educator and learning activist based in Linz, Austria. I’m also a learner, writer, gardener, cook and creator of various things.

My focus is in discussing, experimenting and developing how we can manage our education and learn in the future, especially using web tools, community-driven action and open technologies and processes.

Wing and Ko. is an independent editorial content and design studio. Creative director Anthony Wing Kosner has 25 years of experience working on projects or on staff for almost every major U.S. magazine publishing company. During that time he has become expert in the full range of editorial subject matter: technology, business, finance, science, health, sports, lifestyle, fashion, news and entertainment. Wing Kosner has specialized in magazine launches and redesigns. Though primarily an art director and designer, he has periodically taken on the roles of editor and project manager.
The studio has many sub-specialties including: information graphics, photo research, photo illustration, web production, content marketing and user experience analysis. Please contact us to discuss your next project.

Julianne is a best-selling author with a doctorate from Columbia University. She founded TEDxEast in May 2009. Julianne has attended a number of TED and TEDGlobal conferences and as a writer finds the intersection of ideas, inspiration and community a compelling experience. She is currently conducting research about how ideas spread. Julianne has 2 books coming out in 2012 and continues to work with educators to innovate ways we teach and learn. She is also an avid traveler and bikram yogi.

produced @raisecache for hackNY, designed for NY tech, learned from Hard Candy Shell, worked at Techstars & went to school at NYU.

Cole Gillespie is a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Fellow at Zeit Online, one of five fellows who will be joining leading newsrooms for a year to help them solve technology problems.
Gillespie is a JavaScript developer originating from deep within the North Carolina Appalachians. In recent years he has spent his time in Raleigh, North Carolina, working with various companies including Project Mastermind, National Geographic, CNN and IBM. He spends most of his free time playing music, hacking open source projects or trolling in IRC trying to keep up with the web's rapid evolution.

Global Resident at IDEO.org

Photographer and startup guy based in Silicon Valley.

I'm focused on photographing landscapes, editorial, portraits and anything Silicon Valley related.

To see more of my photography visit Peter Adams Photography and In Startup Land.

Jonathan Gosier (wikipedia) is a designer, software developer, lover of data science and the co-founder of metaLayer.com which aims to change how you analyze content by offering products for atomizing and visualizing data.

From 2009 to 2011 he served as Director of Product for SwiftRiver at Ushahidi working on an open-source platform for drawing insight from real-time communication during crisis events. The SwiftRiver project was awarded the 2011 Knight News Challenge award for its potential to improve the data journalism and news gathering process.

After a long career in journalism and publishing (during which he launched Business 2.0 and the games website IGN), Chris Anderson became the Curator of the TED Conference in 2002.

Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition. Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society.

Martin E. P. Seligman is a world-renowned authority on depression and abnormal psychology, he is known for his work on the theory of "learned helplessness", and according to The Daily Pennsylvanian is considered the father of positive psychology. Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association by the widest margin in its history and served in that capacity during the 1998 term.

SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of ten books that have been bestsellers around the world. Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead.

She is currently an Open Society Fellow, working on a book tentatively titled "Internet Freedom and Control: Lessons from China for the World." She is an active member of the Board of Directors for Global Voices, an award-winning citizen media community which she co-founded in 2004 with Ethan Zuckerman.

Steve Pavlina is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site and blog dedicated to personal development, StevePavlina.com and the book Personal Development for Smart People.

Tony Spaeth is an independent identity consultant, focused on the uses of identity as a tool in managing and marketing

Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK.

I am a serial entrepreneur, adviser, and board member within the media, advertising, and technology industries. I am fascinated with the white-space that exists between the above industries and look for companies who try and bridge them together.