Archive for June, 2006
open for organizations
Helping organizations of all sizes by providing local technology centres and third workspaces is our plan. open for organizations' business plan is now available on the website wiki at http://www.open4.org. We've found 13,000 sq ft of space and want to make it the best creative commons in the world so More »
- 29th Jun, 2006
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The Future of Journalism
Openbusiness has interviewed Kenneth Neil Cukier, who is a technology correspondent for The Economist in London specialising in public policy matters, particularly intellectual property.1. OpenBusiness looks at how free services emerging on the internet and the distribution of free content can be sustained. More »
- 24th Jun, 2006
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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 More »
- 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 More »
- 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. More »
- 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 More »
- 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 More »
- 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. More »
- 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 More »
- 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 More »
- 9th Jun, 2006
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