Destroying the Silicon Valley

For some time now, I've wondered if my destiny is to destroy the Silicon Valley. I grew up here, the weather is nice, but I've watched it change time and again into a massive marketing function too expensive to live in.

Pascal Zachary opines in the Times that everywhere already.

So what I'm really interested in is how and if the promise of remote collaboration will undermine the Valley's lead. Today 85% of workers collaborate remotely. Business models like the above embrace. If Socialtext does its job it, innovation can happen despite geography and with mass collaboration.

We had an all hands meeting here this week, bringing together the 2/3rds of the company that work from their far flung homes to collaborate face-to-face (F2F). Christine covers the innovations that happened in our open to the public Comments

Ross Mayfield is CEO and co-founder of Ross Mayfield's Weblog which focuses on markets, technology and musings.