Archive for June, 2007

Social Lending Watch

As a sign of growing interest in 'social lending' and 'p2p' finance there is new site called 'Social Lending Watch'. They have just re-posted our 'p2p finance' report (thanks) and have brought to our attention two Continue reading »

• 27th Jun, 2007
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Social Lending Report

Looking around on the web (mainly Google) we found that what we have called 'p2p finance' is actually most often called 'social lending'. So we have decided to re-post in a search engine friendly way our report on p2p finance.

Here an excerpt of the introduction:

The OpenBusiness team has Continue reading »

• 20th Jun, 2007
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Open Source Comedy as Smart Marketing

We have heard of Open Source business models, OS inspired film and music production, even car making, but what is an Open Source Comedy about? But here we go: Friend of OpenBusiness David Bausola has designed an OS comedy for Ford, Continue reading »

• 20th Jun, 2007
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Sneak preview of the NEW izimi

Naturally I'm excited about the imminent release of the new izimi, and I wanted to share some sneaky preview screenshots with you all for feedback. The forthcoming version includes Continue reading »

• 19th Jun, 2007
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Report from iCommons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Highlights from Croatia: Lessig makes a sex joke and announces his leaving the movement, Emperor Pirk of Star Wreck terrifies audience, impressive SL/RL integration, CC Learn launches. I'm in Dubrovnik for the week-long love-fest and networking bazaar that is the annual Continue reading »

• 17th Jun, 2007
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Weedshare, R.I.P.

WeedShare, a fascinatingly radical music business idea, is dead, killed by a Microsoft Media Player incompatibility update. They were one of the most prominent uses of DRM to try to rethink the music industry. WeedShare was in some ways Continue reading »

• 11th Jun, 2007
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DRMed MP3s inside the iTunes/iPod universe?

Itunes 7.2 breaks the ability to put mp3s on your iPod that you converted from DRMed AAC files. Apple says it's a bug, but the problem raises larger questions, like why can you rip CDRs made on Continue reading »

• 10th Jun, 2007
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Police Love, Rock U and iCommons Summit awaits

CDBABY's Derek Sivers is staying with us, and witnesses British wit in a street scene with a man hog-tied by the police. "Oh officer, I know you love to put your stick there". I'm at the ACM Continue reading »

• 10th Jun, 2007
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Distributing Start-Upping

A new post below by Gavin O'Carroll, who is about to start-up Rememble.com I am a time-management nerd. Or should I say a life-management nerd. I'm starting a new business (actually almost two). I'm pretty anxious about this as Continue reading »

• 8th Jun, 2007
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Paul Graham on OpenBusiness

I just came again across an article I read a while ago, but never got around to posting it. One of the most inspiring and insightful articles on how business could and should change by learning from Open Source Software has been written Continue reading »

• 6th Jun, 2007
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