Here is a video of Austin Hill explaining his vision and motivation behind akoha.org, a startup to launch later this year.
The akoha website already gives a glimpse of what they are trying to achieve, but I found this video much more meaningful and more powerful than all the logos and colors. A beautiful project for sure, that I found echoed in one of Paul Graham’s recent essay; the question left unanswered now is if they can change people’s behaviour.
A Tara Hunt interview.
Note: this was published a few weeks ago, but I missed it as it was published when I declared a black-outhiatus for everything related to MTW.
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Austin Hill April 21, 2008
Thanks for the post. Tara did indeed do a great interview.
For those interested in the book I reference in the interview, it’s called “Generous Man – How Helping People is the Sexist Thing you Can do”
http://www.amazon.ca/Generous-Man-Helping-Others-Sexiest/dp/1560259035/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208822481&sr=8-3
It has a great chapter on Gift Economies which covers everything from open source software to the attention economy that drives blogging and social networking.
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