February « 2007 « OpenBusiness

MiniBar This Friday

Its MiniBar o'clock again. We just got a nice review of the last one. I like the first line in particular: "Imagine taking the idea of the Comedy Club and getting geeks to run it instead. Voil� – the More »

28th Feb, 2007
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The Future Of Open Business

[via OpenBusinessModels WikiHive blog] IntroOpen Business.cc blog reports about a Time Magazine a... More »

24th Feb, 2007
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Getting Rich Off Those Who Work For Free

The Time Magazine has an extremly relevant article for todays user driven, social, free and open world: is there a new form of exploitation looming? Should those who drive sites like flickr, digg or make an OS poject work not have some More »

22nd Feb, 2007
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CrowdSourcing the DELL Way

Lionel, co-founder of CrowdSpirit, points out one of the most perplexing issues when it comes to user driven innovation: the users do not receive compensation in any way for their ideas. But in my opinion they should: engaging directly with a More »

22nd Feb, 2007
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Open Solutions Alliance

One of the announcements to come out of last weeks Open Solutions Summit in New York was the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). They say: 'we are a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of comprehensive open source business solutions'. Wow it More »

21st Feb, 2007
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Oort Cloud: Participatory Publishing Experiment

[via Paul Hartzog's Weblog] Back in September, Paul hartzog wrote about "Social Publishing" on Corante's Many-to-Many. Paul about a concept he was thinking about where: “...authors create and distribute their work, and readers, individu... More »

16th Feb, 2007
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Next MiniBar 2nd of March

Here we go again. While last time internet luminary Esther Dyson presented some sobering thoughts on VC investments, Tioti and Modfilms gave interesting pitches (and Mark Shuttleworth lurked in the background) we will have this time Sellaband.com - a revolution in p2p More »

15th Feb, 2007
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Espaço Cultural ao Cubo

Negócios são mutáveis. Tanto quanto o tempo. Voam sempre para novas paisagens. Voamos na asa do pássaro. Para frente, sempre. Com os olhos atentos descobrimos novos caminhos, outras geografias, outros tempos. Em Cuiabá, num contexto de negócios conservador, vêm aparecendo algumas experiências interessantes, contemporâneas, fazendo uso da tecnologia digital e de More »

9th Feb, 2007
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Mix&Mash Film Remix Competition

Creative Commons' UK film competition "Mix & Mash" in association with Google UK invites short video submissions mixing and mashing digital content. Submissions can be made from the 8th of February to the 10th of March. The winners will be notified by More »