3 posts tagged “social networking”
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
… well, that's according to this MySpace expose over at Valleywag --
5. MySpace was a direct assault on Friendster.com. The major key players in the ultimate development of MySpace have Friendster accounts, and name Friendster and its founder in their original business proposal.
The current CEO of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe has been a member of
Friendster since June of 2003 (MySpace was not conceived until August
of 2003).
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
Part 1 is cool. But this Part 2 is just perfect of the Labor Day holiday...
(via zPod:Integral Institute)
Entrepreneurial Idealism and the Integral Model. Part 2. Right Bucks. Right Business. Right View.
”Brian Johnson is the co-Founder and Philosopher/CEO of social networking phenomenon Zaadz.com, a website which is one of Integral Institute’s esteemed “Integral Friends.”* A 32-year-old font of idealism-in-action, Brian is a rather extraordinary example of the passion, creativity, and drive of an emerging wave of integrally-oriented twenty- and thirty-somethings worldwide.
“Brian beings the conversation by mentioning his passion for “conscious capitalism,” and how the Zaadz “plan” as described on the site actually leads with capitalism, and then mentions the spiritual emphasis. He comments, “I deliberately do that… I’m trying to create a compelling ‘yes-and’ story here.” In other words, he’s trying to take a more integral perspective and show how capitalism and spirituality can not only coexist, but actually support each other. However, he continues, not everyone is so excited to see these two things come together, and certain camps have been particularly vocal in denouncing his entire approach, following a general “capitalist pig” theme.
As Ken comments, there are several different things going on here. To begin, even more fundamental than how one might feel about capitalism—or any of the economic systems available—is how one feels about money in general. Generally speaking, a strong negative view of money can be attributed to either 1. exclusively ascending types of spirituality or 2. the green altitude of development (types and altitude/levels being two of the five elements in the AQAL Approach, the others being quadrants, lines, and states).”NOTE: Integral Naked is a premium site. FIRST MONTH is FREE. Eavesdrop on the conversations you can hear nowhere else.
(also posted on zPod:Starship Social Enterprise)
P.S. Here's the link [PDF] to the Right Bucks essay that Ken Wilber wrote two decades ago. Happy (right) Labor Day!
“Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter government or business they can become super rich and powerful jerks. Do we conclude, therefore, that markets (or government) have caused greed? No, the fact is that once we no longer live in tiny tribes of 200, anonymity allows some people, who would have been assholes in a small tribe but who would have been sanctioned there, to go off and become jerks on a much, much larger scale.
“Technology,
including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we
could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement,
broadly construed, will allow us to return to some extent to the moral
monitoring of small villages.”
