Archive for January, 2006

SMS Sugar Man – the future is here!

Take 2 mobile phones, a small group of actors, a dash of improvisational acting and what do you get? If you answered: one full-length movie, you would be right! Aryan Kaganof (formerly known as Ian Kerkhof) a South African film-maker with guts Continue reading »

• 31st Jan, 2006
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Public Knowledge

Public Knowledge has produced a comprehenisve guide for artists, Creator’s Primer – So What … About Copyright. It focuses on how to understand and deal with copyright issues. The guide covers a massive range of topics from the use of digital images in film making, to authors and derivative works. Continue reading »

• 24th Jan, 2006
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Freedom to Tinker

This site has started an in depth discussion about business models and DRM. After an undisclosed number of additional chapters the script will become an academic paper and the writers, Alex and Ed are seeking peer review by inviting comments from their readers.

Not only is the paper pretty interesting (this Continue reading »

• 24th Jan, 2006
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Murdoch vs. Google

The graph, published in todays Economist, illustrates very clearly how different business models are now, which are seen as having potential to grow. Some time ago I wrote "MCI, Microsoft and Murdoch are now sitting in one boat". Previoulsy separated markets have (e)merged. Yet, it Continue reading »

• 22nd Jan, 2006
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Democratizing Innovation – A conversation between OpenBusiness and Eric von Hippel

Eric von Hippel, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focuses his research on developing strategies to identify new ideas and innovations systematically and quickly. His book Democratizing Innovation has documented how the internet and improvements in computing have changed the Continue reading »

• 20th Jan, 2006
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Haven of Open Culture

Open Business in Latin America is emerging especially in informal cultural industries, taking place in the peripheries of various countries. These local peripheries are appropriating technological tools to create their own networks for the production, distribution and consumption of culture. These emerging peripheral Continue reading »

• 17th Jan, 2006
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Spotlight on Intelligent Television: The Economics of Open Content

Intelligent Television is an ambitious research organization located in New York City with a focus on the changing business and distribution models for media in the digital age. Among their several projects is the noteworthy "Economics of Open Content", whose results Continue reading »

• 12th Jan, 2006
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Mute goes beta with print on demand and new distribution!

Mute magazine, the media arts and technoculture magazine, announces the beta launch of its new Open Publishing web site and services http://metamute.org/ The site is an example of participatory publishing and a networked economic model. Mute has a number of interesting new services, including Continue reading »

• 11th Jan, 2006
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The Participatory Culture Foundation: Open Tools for Open Content

The Participatory Culture Foundation is an organization founded by three young people who realized the need to create a simple platform for distributing, discovering, and subscribing to independent video content on the internet. In its words, Continue reading »

• 10th Jan, 2006
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Joi Ito at 22C3: Open Networks, New Business Models

In his keynote address at the 22nd Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, Germany, Joi Ito spoke about the high-stake priority of preserving the Internet as an open network and the implications of losing this resource. Furthermore, he pressed for an opposition to Continue reading »

• 10th Jan, 2006
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