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Wikinomics: How Ma...

	Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams Portfolio Hardcover, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 93 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent Read

This is an excellent book that describes the phenomenum and the impact of Web Based collaboration that is happening at a rapid pace. This is a great follow on to Thomas Friedman's - "The World is Flat"!

Good Overview and Thought Generator

The book is a good read for anyone who's attempting to understand wiki's and other related technologies. Also gives a good overview on how they can be used or affect how organizations collaborate in the future.

As another reviewer noted, it's a great overview but not a good techie review of the technology.

Simply Grand

Wikinomics by Tapscott and Williams is Simply Grand! The book is both entertaining and enlightening. It is more of a philosophic view than a text book and one does not need to be a CFO to understand how the money is made. It clearly shows the trends occurring in the current business models and explains global economics in a context that is understandable for the everyday businessman and the consumer. I appreciated the lack of wordy technical jargon which always makes me wonder if the author is using big words to hide intellectual inadequacies.
A brilliant programmer once told me that elegance was best illustrated with simplicity and this is a book that is elegant in that way, it is simple, and the excitement and exuberance make it colorful. It swipes over the past, showcases the present and offers a bright glimpse of our economic future.
Too many small businessmen and working people don't understand the new economic strategies or that globalization doesn't mean they will get less opportunity and prosperity, it means they will get more because the markets are so enormous. This book could go a long way to help in educating them, but though I like the title, because it is trendy and techy I don't think many people who would benefit from this book will find it.

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Interesting idea, but I expected better from this great writer

A wiki is a website that is editable by anyone that visits it. Wikipedia, for example, is an editable encyclopedia with more than 2.3M pages (as of April 2008). People all over the planet, with all sorts of backgrounds have contributed to Wikipedia. Tapscott and Williams tap this idea of mass contribution and mass collaboration as the basis of this book. In addition to Wikipedia, they cite examples in automotive, pharmaceuticals and technology to suggest that mass, open collaboration is the key to forward progress. The examples they cite are amazing indeed, and worthy of closer inspection. However, the book makes a quantum leap by suggesting that mass collaboration is changing everything. We just aren't there yet. Most companies are very inward-focused and resistant to open collaboration.

One other comment: The writing and content of this book are not on par with Tapscott's other books, especially the excellent The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence.

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Repeat

This book was a required reading. It has some interesting information, but the title is the only point it makes, over and over and over. "Collaboration Changes Everything"

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