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New Small Scale VC's

A couple of months ago the matra went like this: any investment below £2 million is not worth the time of a venture capitalist. But I know people who built cool webservices with either no, or very little capital. Meaning they Continue reading »

• November 2, 2006
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OB Blog Review

Just a quick one – we now have lots of Spanish and Brazilian blogs linking to OpenBusiness.cc. This is thanks to Oona Castro and Juan Freire – two contributors to OpenBusiness. Check out ‘Mundo OS’ which kindly has introduced a blog roll displaying latest OpenBusiness headlines. It Continue reading »

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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 Continue reading »

• October 31, 2006
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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 Continue reading »

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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 Continue reading »

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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 Continue reading »

• October 30, 2006
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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 Continue reading »

• October 27, 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, Continue reading »

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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 Continue reading »