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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Reality check: intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis since the 1990s

Trends in the Living Networks

Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. I fail to understand why this is big news, since US intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis (SNA) for domestic purposes since the 1990s, and likely even before that. I have been focused on networks since long before I wrote Living Networks in 2002.

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Sister-in-law founding team raises $1.6M to digitize transactions for weddings and events

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based startup that sells software to help put on weddings and other events, raised $1.6 Pandemic effect: With social distancing mandates in place for the past year, thousands of weddings were postponed as the market reached record-low numbers. The company employs 10 people and has nearly 1,000 businesses who use its software.

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Reviewing my map of the 2010s at the end of the decade

Trends in the Living Networks

Overall the themes seem to be pretty accurate, though the pace of some may have been a little off, and among other misses, the key theme of social polarization, while alluded to in ‘haves and have nots’ was not adequately on the map. Real-time translation software will enable true multi-cultural teams. AUGMENTED HUMANS.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Unquestionably, good software, well-implemented, can be a powerful enabler. See some screenshots here. The real value is harder to tap.

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Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

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Founded in 2002, Payscale is majority-owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners. Microsoft alum Rakhi Voria is now VP of sales development at Procore Technologies, a construction software platform. He was most recently CEO of digital payments provider 2Checkout, which was acquired by Verifone. He is based in Atlanta. Rakhi Voria.

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