Monthly Archive: July 2006

Crowdsourcing – No Way Back

A term not yet recognised by spellcheck programs has been coined by Jeff Howe writing for last months Wired magazine. Influenced by the open-source culture and outsourcing by companies, the idea of crowdsourcing has the potential to overthrow the traditional relationships Continue reading »

July 28, 2006
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Building a license better than the GPL

Copyright licenses seem to matter - millions are using Creative Commons and the perhaps biggest collaborative, collective effort of our times - Free Software - is based on the GPL. The General Public License has been the beacon for how to develop large Continue reading »

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How to Build an Online Community

Building an Online Community

This is a summary of succesful strategies for building and developing online communities.

What is an online community/social network?

A good community is one where people meet and have the possibility exchange ideas about specific or general topics. Good social networks Continue reading »

July 20, 2006
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P2P Finance – Follow Up

Another site has come to our attention in the P2P finance category: Fundable.com offers the opportunity for a group of people to collect money for a specific goal. This group of people can be a closed group of friends planning a Continue reading »

July 18, 2006
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P2P Finance minimalising transaction costs

Banks are the next institution to be challenged by peer to peer internet technology. After the artistic and intellectual property industries discovered they could cut out the middle man by using legal and illegal practices, Zopa (UK) and Prosper (US) claim Continue reading »

July 14, 2006
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What makes people work for free? – Follow up.

There have been some interesting thoughts about ‘What makes people work for free?’ since it was published on openbusiness.cc. The idea of ‘micro-innovation’, the act of making very small contributions to a much larger, much broader innovation sprung up at principledinnovation.com. A reply to this idea was the idea Continue reading »

July 13, 2006
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The “iTunes Law” in France

A new, heavily disputed law in France, known as the “iTunes Law” required DRM vendors and commercial platforms to open their technology to competitors in order to make it interoperable in its' draft stage. Continue reading »

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Intellectual Property in the ‘Media Mix Culture’

Is it a copyright violation if a full / digital copy of a music track happens to be playing in the background during some "candid camera" video clip? This is *your* life, *your* experience, *your* memory on film... it just happens to have Continue reading »

July 11, 2006
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What makes people work for free?

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