Dr Johnny Ryan
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Dr Johnny Ryan is a consultant and tech thinker & writer. His new book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future was plugged by Marc Benioff and Cory Doctorow, and examines the trends that are shaping the emerging digital environment for business, politics, and media. His writing on strategy, startups, media, marketing, and disruptive technology has appeared in Fortune, BusinessWeek, Ars Technica, and Wired UK online. Johnny works with startups on product definition, evangelism, and strategy. He recently left a social commerce startup to launch a new venture – a tech startup for the tour guide industry called ARC Futures. His work was the most cited source in the European Commission’s official impact assessment that decided against pursuing an EU-wide system of censorship. His PhD at the University of Cambridge examined how terrorist memes proliferate online – part of the subject of his first book in 2007. He is an associate on the emerging digital environment, in the strategy & marketing group, at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge.

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Blog Entries by Dr Johnny Ryan

The Internet Makes Trust and Insight Scarce Commodities, and Makes Newsroom Veterans More Valuable

0 Comments | Posted November 23, 2011 | 1:32 PM

Recently I have been looking at the newspaper as a service and as a business (for reasons that will become apparent later). Something is becoming clear. While the Internet makes information plentiful, and this in turn may be a challenge to some aspects of the newspaper business, deep insight and...

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Even Steve Jobs Faced The Three-Sided Product Problem

0 Comments | Posted November 7, 2011 | 10:50 AM

The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. Startled that someone had bid for the broken item eBay's founder, Pierre Omidyar, contacted the bidder to ask whether he understood that the laser pointer for which he had bid $14.83 was in fact broken? The...

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