Archive for October, 2006
Stray Cinema
Stray Cinema is an open source film. It is an exploration of the possibilities of the information-sharing age. We aim to become a continuing community that uses the potential of modern info-sharing technologies and paradigms to create movies that are then More »
- 31st Oct, 2006
- 1 Comment
How Non-Commercial Licenses make Business
John Buckman is a popular guy among those interested in commons-based businesses. iCommons recently caught up with him in Tokyo, and last week we here at openbusiness made a pilgrimage to London's Covent Garden for dumplings More »
- 31st Oct, 2006
- 1 Comment
Hacker ethic and the Real World
About Wines and Hackers: P2P Foundation Blog discovered recently that the open business model is more usual in the traditional businesses than it is usually thought. Stormhoek is a South African winery that self discovered that their creative and productive More »
- 31st Oct, 2006
- No Comments
Soft stroking on culture’s head
Clique aqui para ler em português Let's talk about an alternative script: on its première day, a movie is also officially released on Overmundo project website and on peer-to-peer file sharing networks. That's how came to light More »
- 30th Oct, 2006
- 2 Comments
From the Elitism of Web 1.0 to the Bubble 2.0
Web 2.0 is associated with two different meanings: a collection of participatory and collaborative technologies and an organizational model for social networks. Both ideas are complimentary, giving rise to new opportunities in communication, activism and business. Also, web 2.0 could be understood as More »
- 27th Oct, 2006
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Open University becomes more Open
The Open University has just opened its OpenLearn service where educational resources are available for free. They completely follow what I'd call 'remix-philosophy'. They write:"(...) share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, More »
- 27th Oct, 2006
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Cafuné é bom. No cinema e em casa.
Este é um filme diferente: no mesmo dia em que foi lançado nas salas de exibição de cinema, era também oficialmente disponibilizado no site Overmundo e nas redes p2p de compartilhamento de arquivos. Assim veio ao público More »
- 26th Oct, 2006
- 2 Comments
investment exchange
If I knew how to do this I would be working on it now. I'm thinking of an exchange where instead of big time brokers like J.P. Morgan trading FOR stock investors on Wall Street there would an online profile system connecting the investor of any size to the PROJECTS More »
- 25th Oct, 2006
- 5 Comments
Response to Open Service Discussion
Below is mdanger's response to our earlier post on Open Services. On this matter as I see it, there is what would be ideal (from the theoritical point of view) and then there is economic reality. We have gotten used to get More »
- 25th Oct, 2006
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Response to GooTube Post
Russ Taylor from ofcomWatch reponds to Michael's post "Is GooTube Just Faking its 'open' credentials":My response to this idea -- that YouTube is in some respects a fake sharing site -- is that in order to be a fake, there must More »
- 25th Oct, 2006
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