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Remix Rock(s)

Peter Gabriel, who has always been one of the smartest in the music industry, let's people remix some of his songs. Business Week get's it and writes:

• October 19, 2006
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Venture Capital and Open Source: Slashdot Interview

There's a nice Q&A at slashdot from yesterday with Richard Gorman of Bay Partners.

Why fund Open Source? Gorman says, "The big advantage open source companies have over traditional software companies is the ability to rapidly take unit marketshare and create a new standard" (I Continue reading »

• October 14, 2006
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Revver – A New Sponsor

We at OpenBusiness are happy to welcome a new sponsor: Revver, which is according to its tagline "the first viral video network that pays" creators of video content. The videos are licensed under a Creative Commons license and if shared over the Continue reading »

• October 12, 2006
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Of Pirates and Business

Over at paidcontent there is an interesting interview with the founder of BitTorrent Ashwin Navin. BitTorrent is the biggest filesharing tool out there and its estimated that at least 90% of downloaded material is pirated.

• October 11, 2006
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The End of Open Source? . . . The Beginning of Open Services

The rise of the ‘network as the computer’, web 2.0, and social software architectures - enabling wide scale interactions between individuals - necessitates asking new ethical, economic and legal questions. Tim O’Reilly, who coined the term web 2.0, recently called for Continue reading »

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Search Creative Commons Pictures on Flickr

FlickrStorm is a new search tool for Flickr that lets you find more relevant

photos and collect them in an easier way. And not only that you can also search for Creative Commons content. The service was developed by a good Continue reading »

• October 10, 2006
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Tickets for Paidcontent Mixer

Do you run a community orientated website, a service which uses Creative Commons, or an innovative open source type business? Then you should come to the first London Mixer. OpenBusiness has ten tickets for our readers to attend the
first London Mixer organized Continue reading »

• October 9, 2006
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Interview with Last.FM

Last.fm is a posterchild of Open Business strategy - they provide a great service, its basic functions are free of charge and the data they generated is under a CC license. Their method of running a music service is social - they network Continue reading »

• October 4, 2006
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New: OpenBusiness Review

Looking around on the Interweb we decided to launch a new format: a quick review of what is new and happening around "openness". For now we will publish every other week a collection of links to blog posts and relevant stories out Continue reading »

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OpenStreetMap takes it to the streets

OpenStreetMap is a project that aims to do no less than map the planet.

Volunteers armed with Global Positioning System (GPS) kits contribute geographic information to the site in an open GPS-specific XML format called "GPS exchange format" (GPX). The collected data may then be used by Continue reading »

• October 2, 2006
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