911 269
Adobe Systems 62, 94, 281, 306
“Airplane” 44
Afghanistan 135
Aker, Jenny 129 ff.
Akerlof, George 36
Amazon.com 7, 14, 17, 27, 62, 66–69, 75, 113, 115, 116, 157, 164, 184, 186, 197, 205, 221, 224, 225, 227, 238, 240, 263, 272–274, 276, 277, 326, 343–344, 349, 361–367, 374, 384, 386
American Airlines 165
Anderson, Chris (TED) 368
Anderson, Chris (Wired) 66, 293, 393
Android; see Google
Apple 6–8, 14, 15, 17, 23, 27, 30, 31, 50, 59, 60, 62, 70, 79–80, 94, 95, 118, 129, 134, 166, 181, 182, 185–187, 195, 205, 224, 226, 263, 281–283, 285, 286–289, 322, 331, 332, 340, 372, 373, 374, 380, 381, 384, 385
Ariely, Dan 36
AT&T 30, 59, 60, 62, 111, 165, 171–178, 253, 254, 255, 287, 331, 374
Batteries 290
Baumol, William 156
Beaufort wind scale 316
Bell, Daniel 144
Bell, Gordon 187
Best Buy 365
Bezos, Jeff 362
Blackberry 284, 285, 287, 289, 351
Blinder, Alan 91
Bluetooth 285
Bolles, Richard Nelson 336
Bowie, David 94
Boyd, Danah 27
Brin, Sergei; see Page, Larry
Brynjolfsson, Erik 68, 93, 157
Brooks, Fred 235
Bundling (of information goods) 46–48
Bush, Vannevar 16
Carnegie Mellon University 142, 325
Cellular phones, see Smartphones
Cerf, Vint 187
Chesbrough, Henry 166
Chessboard, second half of 3
Cisco Systems 60, 74, 267, 346
Coase, Ronald 88
Coburn Ventures 275
Condorcet 122
Cowen, Tyler 6
Craigslist 335
Cross, Rob 187
Crowds and crowdsourcing 110, 115–124
Cusumano, Michael 57
DHL 131
Dematerialization (of information goods) 349
Dev Team (iPhone) 95
Digital natives; see demographics
Doerr, John 289
Dunbar, Robin 336
DVD 12, 15, 46, 52, 194, 196, 386
Dynabook (Kay) 16
Earth Liberation Front 379
eBay 7, 20, 62, 67, 69, 116, 175, 176, 295, 322, 343, 386
Economist, The 18, 108, 133, 155, 205, 382
Eisenmann, Thomas 58
Electronic Arts 40
Erdős, Paul 337
Facebook 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 27, 28, 29, 32, 38, 39, 62, 74, 75, 113, 115, 117, 164, 165, 168, 181, 182, 184, 185, 225, 237, 238, 240, 250, 259, 260, 263, 264, 273, 304, 321, 322, 325, 326, 327, 331, 337, 339, 340, 344, 345, 349, 351, 367, 372, 374, 380, 387
Flickr 27, 115, 116, 184, 187, 237, 238, 287
Foldit 119
Ford 108
Foursquare 39, 187, 224, 322, 372
Frankowski, Dan 68
Gawande, Atul 218
Gawer, Annabelle; see Cusumano, Michael
General Motors 67, 165, 263, 266
Gilder, George 3
Globalization 6
Goodnight, James 16
Google xvi, 6, 7, 8, 12–13, 14, 17, 27, 28, 43, 62, 66, 70, 74, 75, 94, 129, 134, 142, 157, 164, 171, 181–187, 203–204, 250, 260, 263, 264, 265, 272, 273, 281, 284, 286, 289, 293–299, 304, 305, 308, 322, 326, 327, 331, 334, 337, 343, 344, 345, 349, 357, 365, 374,
Gore, Al 5
GPS 4, 14, 28, 60, 62, 224, 244, 250, 263–270, 284, 287, 304–306, 324
Granovetter, Mark 336
Grateful Dead 54
Hamel, Gary; see Prahalad, C.K.
Hatch, Orrin 190
Hollywood Stock Exchange 120, 121
IBM 5, 6, 12, 61, 179, 272, 273, 276, 281, 286, 303, 305, 3123, 314, 341, 357
Illinois 107
India 6, 32, 128, 129, 130, 132, 141
Innocentive 367
Interactive Corp 299
Internet 4, 5, 67, 73, 253–26, 267
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 97–98
Intrade 122
Iowa Electronic Markets 120, 121
iPad; see Apple
iPhone; see Apple
iPod; see Apple
Jacobs, Jane 143
Kagermann, Henning 164
Kahneman, Daniel 36
Kay, Alan 16
Khan Academy 23
Kindle; see Amazon.com
Kuhn, Thomas 168
Kundra, Vivek 112
Kurzweil, Raymond 165
Latinos 27
Linux 12, 20, 37, 46, 59, 60, 62, 70, 100, 101, 118, 164, 176, 181, 234, 346, 356, 373, 375, 378–379
Long tail; see Power laws
MIT 16, 38, 60, 68, 141, 149, 157, 246, 304, 369
Mauboussin, Michael 66
Mbiti, Isaac; see Aker, Jenny
McKinsey Global Institute 297
Memex (Bush) 16
Microsoft 6, 7, 12, 45, 49, 57, 61, 62, 74, 94, 164, 167, 179–188, 273, 274, 276, 281, 286, 287, 299, 305, 306, 314, 325, 332, 373, 374, 378
Milgram, Stanley 338
Moneybatt 304
Monier, Louis 187
mPedigree 136
M-Pesa 134
MP3 4, 12, 190, 195, 284, 288, 294, 327, 349
Napster 12, 51, 117, 167, 189, 192, 194, 209, 221, 375, 378
National Basketball Association 119–120, 385
Netflix 38, 67, 68, 70, 100, 116, 326, 334, 365, 386
New York Times xvi, 18, 164, 199, 202
Nike 248
Nintendo Wii 62
Nokia 8, 20, 129, 173, 182, 263, 282, 284, 285, 286, 288, 374, 384
Norman, Don 79
Nortel 7
Oracle 31, 94, 183, 185, 274, 305, 314
Organizations 20, 93–100, 380–381
Page, Larry 299
Pennsylvania 105ff
Perez, Carlota 22–23, 371, 398
Platforms 57–63, 200, 285, 367, 373–375, 378
Porter, Michael 377
Postrel, Virginia 67
Prahalad, C.K. 90
Private aircraft 328
RSA Security 357
Radiohead 196
Railroads 86
Raymond, Eric 183
Reich, Robert 146
Research in Motion; see Blackberry
Romer, Paul 293
Ruhlman, Michael 149
Rural Sourcing 142
SAP 31, 62, 94, 164, 183, 185, 274, 305, 314, 341, 386
SQL 308
Schmidt, Eric 304
Second Life 345
Services sector 10
Shannon, Claude 5
Shapiro, Carl; see Varian, Hal
Sharks 76
Shirky, Clay 21, 37, 70, 127, 237
Skype 14, 18, 29, 100, 101, 175, 176, 221, 332, 346
Sloan, Alfred 88
Soulja Boy 69
Symantec 74
Tagging 298
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas 67, 75, 122, 293
Taylor, F.W. 87
Teledensity 19
Thurow, Lester 60
Titmuss, Richard 212
TopCoder 118
Trimble 267
Tversky, Amos; see Kahneman, Daniel
Twain, Mark 17
Twitter 4, 29, 38, 62, 165, 187, 223, 273, 325, 327, 337, 343, 351, 367, 381
USB 61
Vail Resorts 250
Varian, Hal 43
Versioning (of information goods) 46–48
Visualization (data) 306, 311–317
Vonage 269
Wall StreetJournal 44, 269, 325, 328
Weather Underground 250
Web 2.0 27, 184
Weber, Max 88
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 14, 174, 269
Wi-Fi 13, 62, 74, 180, 284, 327
Wikipedia 6, 20, 37, 70, 101, 111, 115, 118, 164, 184, 298, 373
Windows operating system; see Microsoft
Wishvast 132
Yahoo! 7, 12–13, 66, 75, 117, 122, 165, 186, 274
YouTube 14, 62, 67, 117, 205, 238, 273, 294, 332, 340
Zappos 166
ZigBee 305
Zipf, George 65
Zittrain, Jonathan 340
Zuckerberg, Mark 326
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