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Wikinomics:

How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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Penguin Group US, Apr 17, 2008 - Business & Economics - 368 pages
The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration.

Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises.

This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.




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Review: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

User Review  - Silas White - Goodreads

I read Macrowikiconomics first, then scanned this book as a number of reviews on here indicate it is better. I can see why: it is more concisely written and focused. Macrowikiconomics does expand the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Kathy Nealen - Goodreads

This book is a little bit older than some of the others I have read but it was still interesting. It noted how MySpace had dominated Friendster and speculated about whether Facebook would eventually ... Read full review

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Don Tapscott is recognized as one of the leading business thinkers of our time. He authored several of the bestselling books of the last decade, including "Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, " and "Growing Up Digital.

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