( image ) For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. ” AppWorld is not the Web, in fact, it’s utterly un-weblike. MORE >>

Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared on Twitter this past week. “The challenge of the coming century is to change the value system of society. Vaclav Havel” via @BillMcKibben. “Intellectual property is an oxymoron. Ideas can’t be owned. Instead, governments grant exclusive licenses to them.” MORE >>

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post on social artistry , on how I am shifting my understanding of what I do and how I do it, seeing myself more and more as a "social artist." This has opened up a whole new world for me and how I think about the work that I do. . Always. . America loves a hero. So does the rest of the world. gure things out. Somewhere. MORE >>

Ask Box.net CEO Aaron Levie about his company’s cloud storage business, and you’ll hear a long, excited answer that probably won’t include the word “storage” at all. You want to compete with Carbonite, Mozy or other big-name backup providers on their own turf? But Box is all about those documents. MORE >>

It’s almost the end of the year, so I’ll try to do a few compilations of my most popular posts of the year. Today, on the general theme of the future, here are 12 (+1 for next year) that have attracted the most interest… 1. Zeitgeist 2011: anxiety, mobility, blending, indulgence, immersion, wrath, nudity and more. ” 7. MORE >>