April « 2007 « OpenBusiness

Thanks BoingBoing – Sorry Readers

Hi all! Its great to have many people interested in what's on OpenBusiness, but some of you might have noticed that our site was down parts of Friday and Saturday. Well, but that's what happens if you are on BoingBoing and 30 other Continue reading »

30th Apr, 2007
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Interview with Mark Shuttleworth: The Business Ecology of Ubuntu

OpenBusiness took the opportunity at MiniBar to interview Mark Shuttleworth and he took us on a space ride through the Ubuntu galaxy Open Source land. Using our new, sophisticated Edirol R-09 MP3 recorder Mark told us about Ubuntu's unique business model - Continue reading »

24th Apr, 2007
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Guest Blogger from izimi

OpenBusiness is pleased to welcome David Ingram as our new guest blogger. David is the VP and co-founder of izimi, an application (available for free download at www.izimi.com) which enables users to easily publish and serve files (photos, documents, music, Continue reading »

24th Apr, 2007
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Find the Best Geeks – Considerati Launch

At MiniBar's we found how hard it is to find good programmers and web designers. (not only at MiniBar's also in every software project we are running). And then we looked around on the web and found the 37signals job board, the Continue reading »

23rd Apr, 2007
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Ubuntu’s Feisty Launch at MiniBar

For those of you who like easy-to-use Open Source software you should come to MiniBar:

Mark Shuttleworth with launch Ubuntu's Feisty Release (and is a sponsor of the event). The Wired blog is full of praise:

19th Apr, 2007
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Cover Open Source Cars

Recently the open business blog mentioned a Guardian article about the open source car. At Assignment Zero they are covering that development, but in a new way. Anyone can contribute to the reporting. In just 10 minutes someone can add to the virtual reporters notebook, which is shared by all Continue reading »

19th Apr, 2007
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Open Source Car

I am just waiting for the day somebody comes up with an Open Source washing machine. Its, however, exciting to see how OS as a paradigm is helping to innovate processes, which have been created for the industrial age. The Guardian just reported on Continue reading »

16th Apr, 2007
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The Globalisation of Informality

OpenBusienss UK have just returned from our annual International OpenBusiness Global Teams Conference.

The two days conference combined an informal meetup where the OpenBusiness Team met with each other to catch up. Partners from Argentenia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Mexico presented their finding for Continue reading »

16th Apr, 2007
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Open Source Filmmaking article in The Daily Telegraph

There was an article on open source filmmaking in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday entitled ‘How audience power could shape the future of movie-making’. Projects such as Stray Cinema, A Swarm of Angels and The Digital Tipping Point were all included in this article. Snakes On A Plane was also Continue reading »

12th Apr, 2007
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MiniBar 20th of April

Its geek time again. On the 20th of April London’s fifth MiniBar will happen. And we have great News:

Features: Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical will launch the new version of Ubuntu (one of the best Linux distributions). MiniBar will launch TechTalks - five minute podcasts Continue reading »