Archive for June, 2006

The Growing Value of Virtual Goods

ArsTechnica picks up an article by the Wall Street Journal on the surge of commercial activity related to online games and the virtual goods that can be traded in their context. From ArsTechnica:

In response to growing player demand, Sony created Station Exchange (Google), its own system Continue reading »

• 22nd Jun, 2006
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Google starts offering commercial videos for free

BetaNews and others report that Google has started offering some of its per-pay videos for free in exchange for including advertising. The selection of videos (normally between $0.99 and $4.99) can be found in the Continue reading »

• 22nd Jun, 2006
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Towards global digital commons

Open Democracy is running forums and articles on the digital commons ahead of the iCommons Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where OpenBusiness will talk about "Commercial Commons" and how business within a free and open media environment can happen.

• 22nd Jun, 2006
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Microsoft enables Creative Commons licensing in Office

No doubt the hard-core open source / free culture crew will dislike CC even more for apparently jumping into bed with the Devil himself, but perhaps the wider audience introduced to open principles by this development is adequate compensation. Very keen to hear Continue reading »

• 21st Jun, 2006
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Open Business Planning

Hi there,

After entering the second round of a business plan contest hold in Spain, we asked ourselves: 'Our target business is Web 2.0 and open source. Why not take this a step further and make the business model planning stage open too?' Paranoia Continue reading »

• 21st Jun, 2006
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Commons based unmarketing

[via AttentionTrust.org]

An interesting experiment that will be worth tracking:
Pinko Marketing, is trying to bring into the marketing world what has been experimented with open source.

• 20th Jun, 2006
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Future Music Portal

Open Studios is a project, which started as a response to efforts by corporate special interests determined to perpetuate obsolete business models, using the Internet. Open Studios is a 501(c)(3) organization, recognized in the United States as a charitable organization. The mission is Continue reading »

• 11th Jun, 2006
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Interview with Jimmy Wales

OpenBusiness interviewed Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia, which is perhaps the best example for what Yochai Benkler calls commons based peer production. Thousands of volunteers have contributed in building the biggest encylcopledia on planet earth. Interestingly so a small core of contributors Continue reading »

• 9th Jun, 2006
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