Archive for November, 2005

Ten Rules for Web Startups

This guide, set up by Evan Williams, looks like a great resource for entrepreneurs looking to start up a new online business. The intructions are clear and accessible. More »

Online Storage Box

Looking in boxes is a really good way of storing things that you want to use again later. They're also a good place to look if you need something you don't already have. Cats are the most obvious example because they are always More »

Research on Competitive Strategy and Open Business

I'm a senior lecturer in business information systems at the Australian National University and I'm currently writing a research paper on competitive strategy and open business models. I'm working on developing theory and a list of requirements and caveats for firms engaging in open approaches More »

Magnatune Nagware

A couple of weeks ago I was pleased to find that Magnatune had a new album available by one of my favourite musicians. I downloaded the new album with keen anticipation, fired up totem, and sat down to my day's work. More »

An Open Proposal for the Creation of a Universal Exchange of Ideas

I wanted to alert everyone to a open source project that should be of great interest to those interested in fostering the growth of commons-based peer production. My original intent was to develop a new way of conducting ad hoc brainstorming sessions across the Internet. More »

My Evil Comic Book

Via our friend Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing. It's a model that won't last forever but clearly has potential for now -- at least until one of those twice-yearly rumours about e-ink come true! SF author Jim Munroehas just released a new More »

Selling learning for free

'Copyright, copyleft and everything in between' is an animated, interactive flash-based curriculum for high school students in South Africa. It was developed with a grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation (TSF) and was released yesterday for free download (using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike South Africa More »

A New P2P Music Business

What happens if the founder of Napster and a music executive get together to start a business? They create a hybride: open and closed at the same time. Yet, the basic questions remains: will music lovers pay for a better service, if they can get More »

The South African educational sector opens the way

No entry! Subscribers only. Click here to subscribe. Free (terms and conditions apply). ALL RIGHTS RESERVED These statements are reflective of the geography of our lives, where places, things and cultural products are divided between what we are allowed to have and do and what we are not allowed to experience or share. More »

Open Source, Open Market for Ideas

In this article, Steven Weber examines the open-source movement and what it means for intellectual property rights, corporate management theory and globalization. He is a professor of political science and the director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California More »

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