Archive for February, 2006

Now you © it, soon you won't

OpenBusiness.cc just spoke at PEN - the authors association - and now The Times has published some of our views on the future of publishing. Under the title Now you © it, soon you won't we discussed the challenges to current publishing models Continue reading »

End of Open: Growing Concern over a Two-Tier Internet

For those cautiously watching it, the debate about a Two-Tier Internet has been simmering for several months now (see previous coverage by BBC, Slashdot, The Guardian, The Register and others). The issue is increasingly escalating and Wired Continue reading »

Web 2.0 Innovation Map

There is an excellent map showing many different web 2.0 projects. Most of them aggregate existing content, mashing it, remixing it, making it differently accessible. Very useful, interesting and entertaining. Yet, where the business models are is quite often an open (business) question. Continue reading »

Internet Publishing Models

OpenBusiness just found on Tim O'Reilly's ever inspiring blog a reference to a paper he wrote in 1995. He wrote "In the old model, the information product is a container. In the new model, it is a core. One bounds a body of content, Continue reading »

Participatory Culture Foundation launches Democracy Player and Open Video Platform

GetDemocracy LogoIn a previous post, OpenBusiness reported on efforts by the Participatory Culture Foundation to create an open and simple distribution platform for video and independent television over the Internet. Much of their vision has reached a first milestone today with the Continue reading »

Semantic Wikis

Almost all people have seen how fast collaborative free Wikis contents has grow up. The most evident prove is the wikipedia project. The reasons are more, but two of these surely are: the easiest way to contribute and the sense of collaboration power editors feels. So Continue reading »

New Embryonic Business Models for Music

The quest is still on to find new business models for music. MusicLessons an European Commission funded project has investigated some and published a report Continue reading »

New and Embryonic Business Models for Music

The project "MusicLessons" published a report outlining interesting insight into how new business models for distributing music are emerging. They provides an overview of basic business models on the net. Some of the business models are quite well known, but others are related to P2P systems. The authors present a Continue reading »

Upcoming Conference: Cultural Environmentalism at 10 (Stanford Law School CIS)

Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law SchoolSave the date: On March 11 and 12, Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is organizing a conference to reflect on ten years of debate on the intellectual property under the banner of Continue reading »

Feb 20 & 21, Mashup Camp: Mixing Open Systems

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, several hundred attendees meet in the San Francisco Bay Area for Mashup Camp. It is the first conference of its kind focusing on internet services and applications that are enabled by openly sharing data and services Continue reading »

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