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Crowdfunding creates a new layer of capital markets and new layers of value

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2006 BRW quoted me : There will also be a growth in companies that are less capital intensive. As the bank spokesperson noted, crowdfunding is unlikely to impact in any significant way the existing loan portfolio of banks. Almost no projects on crowdfunding platforms would have any chance of getting bank lending.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on the state of applying Web 2.0 In a recent post New ways of collaborating at the bank , James writes about how Lloyds TSB is piloting social media such as blogs.

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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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 was the gold sponsor for the Living Networks Forum I ran with Business Development Institute in New York in December 2003.

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The GeekWire Summit returns next week: Agenda released featuring Andy Jassy, Ciara and others

GeekWire

The former Hotwire and Expedia exec has not slowed down since leaving Zillow, bankrolling a handful of new ventures, launching a SPAC that acquired real estate service Opendoor, and even starting a new food-oriented social networking startup with his teenage daughter. Where will Andy Jassy take Amazon?

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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. It will then allow people to request to be connected to others in their organization that have specific expertise. See some screenshots here.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Future Exploration Network. Social change tends to be faster in a downturn. Sophisticated and with a social conscience, Gen Z has never lived without the internet or mobile phones. Outsourcing used to be for banks and telcos. Companies become social. Now over 100 million users are socializing using Facebook.

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