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Building on Open Business as Entrepreneurs Lifecycle Management

This is building here. I think it is possible to create knowledge bases of ways that people can accomplish things by "doing less with more", for one. I theorize that invest would be more willing to fund alliances of micro-enterprises if those micro-enterprises were able to show they can compete with, or Continue reading »

August 31, 2006
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Wired on OpenBusiness and Free Beer

Lawrence Lessig has written an article for Wired Magazine depicting the very cool Free Beer project as a significant example of an Open Business. Interestingly so he cites Richard Stallman criticism' that the beer is merely defined by its creators as Continue reading »

August 30, 2006
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Open Business as Entrepreneurs Lifecycle Management

After doing some research and experimenting with "collaborative entrepreneurship", this is how I see that Open Business should (and hopefully will) emerge: Entrepreneurs Lifecycle Management: - Entrepreneurs, because they are the drivers of the economy, the ones who create value from their ideas. They should be the clear focus for any business Continue reading »

August 29, 2006
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Steal This Film

An interesting and inspiring movie has just been released about The Pirate Bay - the biggest Bittorrent filesharing website in the world. Millions of internet users download music, books and most prominently films via the site. Its not only a technical Continue reading »

August 25, 2006
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Relakks – Don't do it

Relakks.com is a new service (a Virtual Private Network) for those who want to send information over the Internet with anonymity. The encrypted connection service is fully supported by the Swedish Political 'Pirate Continue reading »

August 23, 2006
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Bowie Bonds

The value of stocks will rise and fall with popularity. As a producer this plays havock on the value of your productions, and thus you use copyright to protect access and thus control, to a degree, the value of your work. With file sharing at notably high levels, contolling access Continue reading »

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Berkman Center Podcasts

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University has a number of great podcasts related to openbusiness; including Traci Fenton of WorldBlu on "organizational democracy," Yochai Benkler on "The Wealth of Networks" (a great introduction to his book of the same Continue reading »

August 19, 2006
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Illegal Computers

The age of illegal computers in Brazil is about to come to an end. In 2004, the South American nation was on its way to becoming world leader in the trade of illegal computers, as 74% of the machines sold collected no taxes Continue reading »

August 15, 2006
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Netaudio London > 15 – 16 September 2006

Netaudio '06 - London Netlabel Festival

After Netaudio’05 in Berne and Netaudio V2.05 in Cologne, it is time for the London installment of the series with Netaudio’06: the London Netlabel Festival. Netaudio’06 is a celebration of the communal effort Continue reading »

August 9, 2006
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Create your own Prime Time TV

A new age is dawning for television. Democracy player by the Participatory Culture Foundation is a free, open source, open content player which is downloadable might change the way we watch television forever. Even though the player has been around for Continue reading »