Time Person of the Year 2006 is "You" as in User Generated Content - Communities Dominate!

Yes they all fall in line. On April 2, 2005 the Economist said in its cover story and 16 page special issue, that only firms capable of serving the new connected consumers would survive. Then on 13 June 2005, Business Week put consumer communities on its cover and devoted half of the issue to the topic, and stated that digital community collaboration was the biggest change since the industrial revolution.

Now its Time, in the 25 December issue, names "You" as the person of the year - with a clever mirror on the cover - and discusses user-generated content as the most important phenomenon of the year 2006. Does that sound familiar to readers of our blog and book? Yes, we have echoed these themes for two years now, and totally agree with the award of course. Welcome to the club, Time Magazine and congratulations to "us" as in all the individual "you" people who contribute to user-generated content worldwide, for winning this annual honour.

PS - I am in Indonesia today (running workshops for the local industry with the Siemens Indonesia Developer Community and the Indonesian Telecoms Regulatory Board) and spotted the news on CNN about Time's announcement today, so I don't have the actual printed issue in my hand yet. I'll be buying the issue of course return to this topic when we've read the magazine to comment further.

Comments

[alan moore]

Tomi, there was a big article in the Observer this w/e. But I can't find the link. Being dumb.

However, it brought a wry smile to my face as CDB has preceeded all other boooks by about 2 years.

Every topic mentioned in the 2 page article, we have written about, touched on, or, is in the book.

It makes a great christmas present.

Even today in our fast changing world

Alan

[alan moore]

Check this out

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2006/12/18/youre-time-magazines-person-of-the-year/

Alan

[Tomi T Ahonen]

Hi Alan

Yes, me too, makes me very proud of our book. As are the continuing comments being posted at Amazon etc saying this is the one book to read.

I have to go find a news stand here in Hong Kong where I can pick up the Time issue before it runs out...

Oh, and Google? Well at least we both can be found on Google so I guess we both exist ha-ha..

Tomi :-)