Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
from Tantor Media

Features:

• Audiobook
• CD
• Unabridged

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The Long Tripe, Wisdom of Hacks
  The authors are hacks. This is the worst kind of pseudoscience, and it's way too long.
  The authors build a case for various forms of collaboration using anecdotes and a few statistics (w/ fewer references). Before the reader has a chance to ask "how do I know collaboration was the factor that accelerated this company's growth" or "what else might have been going wrong at the other company" the authors quickly make up a few scientific sounding words and speak in broad generalizations about what... more info

• Could be helpful if you are new to the topic...
  As has already been stated, the view of the world of mass collaboration presented in this book is rather simplistic. It could be helpful, though, if you are new to the topic and would like to understand what "emergence", "wikis" and "prosumers" mean and how the term "knowledge" is changing in meaning.

• Sorely disappointing
  I heard a lot of buzz about Wikinomics when it was published a few years ago, but when I finally picked it up a few weeks ago I was sorely disappointed. I'm very surprised that it gets such a high overall rating on Amazon.
  First and foremost the book is extremely repetitive. I feel that instead of 300 odd pages it could have easily been under 100 while becoming significantly more readable. Granted, some sections are very well written, but I found most sections of the book difficult to read for more... more info

• Touches on important points and gets the details wrong
  This is the sort of book that often comes out about new social and technological developments... it touches on all of the hotspots surrounding wikis and massively parallel collaboration, even name-drops many important people and cases related to each, but usually gets the details wrong.
  Precisely because the issues raised are so important to understanding how we as a society can collaborate on the scale of millions of people working together on similar projects, I must disrecommend this book to anyone... more info

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