Archive for March, 2006

Social Change and the Internet

OpenBusiness interviewed Geoff Mulgan, director of the Young Foundation, a space in which innovative and progressive social entrepreneurs can come together and try to change their world. OpenBusiness is itself situated within the Young Foundation. Geoff is known to be an insightful thinker on More »

Steve Jobs gets it

Over at BoingBoing.net, Cory cites Steve Jobs, who has a key OpenBusiness inside. He points out why Digital Rights (or Restriction) Management devices will never work. The logic is sipmple: you pick one copy and then its open via the Internet for More »

FON: another great example of Open Business

FON Wireless is offering a way for people to share their bandwidth (up to 50% of what they have available) in exchange for the ability to access others wifi spots when they travel. FON actually has several types of users: - Linus: give your bandwidth in exchange for access - Bill: get More »

Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar: IPR and DRM

On 14 March, OpenBusiness addressed delegates attending the second Westminster eForum on Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Rights Management. The aim of the forum was to provide a platform for the latest thinking on IPR and DRM and offer stakeholders a timely meeting point for different perspectives. Christian Ahlert spoke More »

Group buying

From Smartmobs: consumers in China have set up >>a Web site (51tuangou.com) that gathers together consumer buying power for a specific purchase in Shanghai. More »

The Economist: Special Report on Open Business

In its current issue, The Economist just published a comprehensive article about the growing shift in business towards open practices and models, inspired and many times fueled by the advent of open source. From the article: The “open-source” process of creating things is quickly becoming More »

OpenBC

A very good tool to do Open Business is OpenBC (http://www.openbc.com/). I do not see it as a "Social Networking" service, but rather as a collaboration set of tools (messaging, event scheduling, groups) around which a community of business people are gathering to do business. I also believe that tools are More »

Creative Commons Statistics Generator

OpenBusiness has just released a new practical tool for the world. Its a tool to generate quantitative data on teh use of Creative Commons Licences on the internet. Visit the site to use the tool and for a brief introduction and explanation. This statistic generator queries Yahoo! for back-links to More »

Murdoch predicts end for media Barons

The Guardian online has just published an article in which Murdoch envisages the end for the editors, the chief executives and the proprietors... well not quite the end but he too is certain that unless traditional publishers adapt to the new technologies that challenge More »

Payday for the free internet

Yesterday Becky Hogge, the Technology Director and Technology Commissioning Editor of OpenDemocracy wrote this article about OpenBusiness: Hire a management consultant these days and, regardless of what industry you happen to be in, it won't be long before they start talking Web More »

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