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Well, of course you can – free software is the primary demonstration of that. But that doesn't mean it's trivial to turn free into f...

I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-a...

Guildford is not famous for being a hotbed of open source, but that's where the British open source company Volantis is based. It's ...

Number 10 has a new look for its Web site ...and it's rather good (love the blues). Moreover, it's gone all Web 2.0: Flickr stream ...

Honey is all very well, but what we really need is more tin .

Here's a good example of how crowdsourcing can enhance a commons: The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste o...

Here's a nice analysis of what makes today's Internet services tick: Dopplr can show me when a distant friend will be near and vice...

Being a rigorous sort of chap, I was sceptical about folksonomies - ad-hoc tags. But over time I've come to appreciate their power - an...

Flickr has reached its two billionth picture : and that's just the beginning....

A few months back I wrote about a video showing an intriguing project that built on the commons of public images posted to Flickr and the r...

I've written before about Microsoft's Photosynth, which draws on the Net's visual commons - Flickr, typically - to create three...

Not, alas, open source as far as I can tell : IBM Lotus Quickr is team collaboration software that helps you share content, collaborate and ...

I wrote recently about Microsoft's amazing Photosynth demo, which shows pictures of Notre-Dame taken from Flickr stitched together auto...

Photosynth is undoubtedly amazing. But this video indicates that it's even more powerful than previously suggested; specifically, it ...

Having problems getting your head around that tricky concept of DRM? Try this . (Via Boing Boing .)

Mozilla Labs are working on the Coop : The Coop will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interes...

One of the less well-known benefits of creating a commons is that it allows people to experiment with those resources in an unfettered way. ...

This is getting seriously weird. DestroyTV lets RLers watch an island in SL, using an embedded video camera (which is "in" both S...

Larry Lessig has some wise words on what Flickr gets right and YouTube gets wrong.

I'm a big fan of Flickr, even if I don't have much call to use it. Perhaps one reason for that is that it's a bit of a pain fin...