Episode Notes

Mark Krynsky (@krynsky) of the X PRIZE Foundation & Lifestreamblog.com joins us to talk about competition, cooperation, and the folly of trying to measure online “influence.”

News and Notes:

• M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director – New York Times
• New Director of MIT Media Lab Talks of Encouraging Openness – Chronicle of Higher Education
• Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts – The Atlantic
• A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space – Danah Boyd at Zephoria.org
• Bogus Infringement Takedowns And The Danger Of Relying On Third Party Services With No Backbone – Techdirt
• Zephoria Inc.: About to find out how social media really works – Suw Charman-Anderson
• Finding And Buying A Domain Name – Fred Wilson at AVC.com
• Invaders from Mars – Charlie Stross
• Books by Stross at Amazon
• Manifesto: I Am Not a Brand – Maureen Johnson
• Mark’s page at Empire Avenue (“Buy and sell your friends and own anyone on the social web!”)
• Klout is a Good Start But We Need More Ingredients for an Influencer Recipe – Mark Krynsky at Lifestream Blog

Some links and notes related to the X Prize Foundation and other aspects of Mark Krynsky’s work:

• Mark manages the X PRIZE Foundation websites & services.
• A collection of web services used at X PRIZE
• He has been writing about Lifestreaming for over 4 years, and he is currently focusing on social content readers and personal activity data (Lifelogging & Quantified Self)
• The Autonomous Auto X PRIZE
• Gold Rush 2.0: A Case Study of the GoldCorp Challenge – A.C. Preston
• The X Prize Visioneering Workshop

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