Archive for April, 2006

News About OpenBusiness

OpenBusiness.cc has recently received quite a bit of coverage. Obviously we fill a gap in the market for ideas and prevalent questions: In our case it is a much posed question which comes in different guises: how can giving away content sustain an activity? How Continue reading »

BeatPick.com – Is there life after copyright?

Tapping into a growing concern that seeks to redress the balance between musicians, customers and record labels, BeatPick.com is a company that promotes a fairer way of doing business in the music industry. Working under the Creative Commons licensing system, the label splits the proceeds of Continue reading »

People Inside & Web 2.0: An Interview with Tim O’Reilly

People Inside & Web 2.0: An Interview with Tim O’Reilly

OpenBusiness spoke with Tim O'Reilly about the evolution of the Web and its most current trends, which are commonly labeled as Web 2.0. In September 2005, Tim wrote a seminal piece that presented many of the aspects of Web 2.0 and now surrounds much of the buzz around a new Continue reading »

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler, professor of law at Yale, has given an interview for OpenBusiness. The interview explains some of his thoughts he has written about in his new book “The Wealth of Networks”. Most appropriately the book is published under a Creative Commons license. From Continue reading »

Arts Survey Findings

The survey conducted as part of the OpenBusiness.cc project focuses on new media arts and copyright; art forms that thrive in the open environment provided by the internet. This survey combines qualitative and quantitative data to examine the motivations behind using a Creative Commons licence and Continue reading »

Open Source Cocktail Mixer

Well, okay, its not quite open source, but very cool and shows how business can be done differently. At lazydrinker.com you can learn how to build a digital, programmable cocktail mixer. But of course you could simply order one, instead of building it yourself. Continue reading »

Harnessing the Benefits of Openess

The US National Business Council has just published a report strongly encouraging the use of "Open Source Methods" in different fields of business. On the A2K list Ian Brown writes the "report's authors include such well-known communists as Citigroup's CTO and IBM's Senior VP for Research". Continue reading »

Open Ads for Local Business

All Business is about location, location, location. So goes the old saying, but the internet was supposed to make business independent from the restrictions of physical space. And now the net the turns the established economics of media and advertisement around. Spotrunner is Google Ads for local businesses, which Continue reading »

Open Access from ABC: Contradiction or Market Insight?

ABC - Your Free Video is LoadingYou can’t help but feel uneasy when one of Hollywood’s largest protégés for extended copyright terms suddenly warms up to Open Content: Disney Corp.’s ABC announced at the end of last week that it would start streaming four of its Continue reading »

A future of public access? Wi-Fi + Google = Free ( + Ads )

Google WirelessLast week, Google and EarthLink received San Francisco’s bid to build up and manage the city’s planned municipal Wi-Fi network. As more analysis of the joint proposal came to light as a result, it coincided with Google’s patent application for “ad-supported wireless networking”, Continue reading »

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