Charles Leadbeater (UK) advises both companies and governments.
In his book We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production, he talks about the opportunities for innovation and creativity the Internet holds for consumers and companies. Leadbeater writes at
charlesleadbeater.net/NotaBlog

14. German Trend Day: Social Wealth / Charles Leadbeater: We-Think: Mass Creativity, not Mass Production from Trendbuero on Vimeo.

Matt Mason, bestselling author of “The Pirate’s Dilemma”, began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London. Today Mason is a journalist and consultant and also produces TV series. In late 2008, Business Week voted him “Pirate of the Year”. Mason blogs and writes at
thepiratesdilemma.com

14. Deutscher Trendtag: Social Wealth / Matt Mason: The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism from Trendbuero on Vimeo.

Lawrence Lessig (USA) is a professor of law at Stanford Law School
and founder of the Center for Internet and Society and the Creative Commons initiative. He tries to close the gap between outdated copyright laws and new technologies. Lessig writes at lessig.org/blog

14. German Trend Day: Social Wealth: Prof. Lawrence Lesssig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hy from Trendbuero on Vimeo.

If you thought mash-ups were just about music – think again. And we are not talking about Google maps mash-ups, either. Think bigger. Think mashing up the whole web 2.0. Enter “Ubiquity”. The lab guys at Mozilla bring us a new powerful tool that changes how we use and interact with the web. It’s aim is to deliver an enhanced web experience integrating various existing web services into one smart, easy to use application.
Just take a look for yourself and might very well get a glimpse of how we will be using the internet in the near future:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

ubiquity at mozilla labs

(written by Florian Häupl)

The new stage for capitalism is the social aspect itself.

Norbert Bolz (D) teaches at the Institute of language and Communication at the Technical University of Berlin. lecturer in communication theory at the University of Duisburg/Essen from 1992 to 2002. His work focuses on the question of how society antici­pates technological and economic changes at social and cultural level.

Interview with Norbert Bolz on the topic of social wealth.

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