Last year in Chicago at MeshForum, we talked about how the networks of society can break in Disaster situations.

For 2006 we’ll discuss how new Net businesses are breaking the existing networks of business relationships.

Podshow is helping to break the model of the way producers and consumers of content interact. In the past, interaction was minimal. In the case of podcasting, it is quite direct. Recently, listeners to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast created while he was on vacation. These listeners literally programmed their own content. The Podshow Podsafe Music Network is doing A&R in a whole new way, getting
bands and labels to literally give music away to be promoted (no payola, no romancing Clear Channel to get songs on air). Soon, it is reported, they hope to literally have listeners register for promotions and benefits while making their podcast listening habits and demographic information more transparent to advertisers who will, presumably pay more for such an audience.

Jamais Cascio and I will talk about Map Mashups, and how mashups and other Web 2.0 technologies are 'breaking network models' of how software is made, delivered, developed and paid for.

Themes:

• changing the way that busienss has always been done
• changing business' relationships with Customers (as opposed to or disctinct Consumers)
• stuff being used in ways business hadn't intended
• what are the real costs of mashups? who bears the cost?
• what happens if Google starts charging per map call
• how do I design a business when my input and my output may be a black box (rss feed, data API, etc).
• what are the liabilities?
• what happens when vendors change the API
• What happens when your provider is your competitor?
• can you create competitive advantage when everyone has same sources of data?
• can we have long tail businesses where everyone can be successful in a small way, or do we need to have EBAY where everyone needs to be in a community?
• what are social implications of using map-based information tools on environmental analysis
• http://www.chicagocrime.org/
• We Fix NYC (no longer on line - article on http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/07/27/pothole_tracking.php
• If making data abundant and available, are we, the people, ready to take the data and do something with it, about it etc?
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