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13 December 2006
The Real Crowdsourcing
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Tuangou 团购 - not sourcing from crowds, but sourcing for crowds: for tuangou, it's all about shopping, aggregating enough people to be ...
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12 December 2006
Not-So-Sadville
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Here's an interesting piece of research that attempts to get some (relatively) hard facts about residents of Second Life. It's onl...
OpenServing
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How can I resist a pitch like this ? Openserving extends the essence of the open source model — free software and content — to all aspects o...
God Bless Bickering
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Poor Charlie : The EU Internal Markets Commissioner has warned that Europe is about to miss out on a chance to forge a pan-European patent d...
Welcome to Iconistan
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I'm such a sucker for clever neologisms : There's a turf war heating up over a strip of web real estate called "Iconistan."...
Digital Mozart and Our Open Future
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One of the key ideas that underpins this blog is that one day all knowledge will be freely available online. Open source is the means, and ...
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5 Things I've Learned From a Year's Blogging
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Today is the first anniversary of opendotdotdot. Since this fact is of little interest to anyone but myself, I thought it might be useful t...
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11 December 2006
Larry's New Code
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As the author of two books with the word "code" in the title, I naturally gravitate to other tomes that also draw on this word. B...
Towards the Bio-Fabber
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One of the reasons I think copyright issues regarding text, images, music etc. are important is that they are a foretaste of when things wil...
Solveiging a Publishing Problem
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What do you do if your publisher never actually publishes the book you have written about OpenOffice.org for them? Easy: buy back the right...
Now is Our Summer of Code Made Glorious Winter
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After the Summer of Code , now the Winter of Code : The South Korean government and local tech companies have started an open source studen...
Telling the Truth About a Telling Fact
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Rob Weir has a characteristically sharp and original analysis of the recent approval by ECMA of Microsoft's Open Office XML: Thus the r...
10 December 2006
Code is Law, Code is Power
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Yup : Ministers were today urged to consider abandoning the multi-billion pound Joint Strike Fighter project unless the United States agrees...
The Virtual World of China
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Talking of the blurring of distinction between life and games, here's a great rumination on certain aspects of modern China (a subject ...
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It's Only a Game
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One of things I have come to appreciate, albeit rather belatedly, is how gamer culture is going mainstream. By that, I don't just mean ...
09 December 2006
Wordie for Wordies
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How could I not love this totally pointless site ? Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure it'll feed into some interesting mashups...
08 December 2006
Energy Worries: Not Just Virtual
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Following the recent excitement about Second Life's energy consumption, it seems that people are beginning to realise that it's not...
Google Joins Eclipse
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In another sign of the ascendancy of Eclipse, Google has joined the club: Ending months of speculation, Google has officially joined the Ec...
Sharing: As Natural as Childhood
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Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law. A survey of almost 1,500 e...
China's Virtual Money Woes
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It's spreading : As if Chinese leaders did not have enough of a headache trying to manage the country's rising but still undervalued...
Is Germany Really Losing It?
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I have a great deal of respect for the German nation. More than anyone else, I think, they have come to terms with their recent history - s...
BrainGumbo
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This has to be the coolest name for a project in recent years: BrainGumbo . No wonder, perhaps, since it's pressing some of the hottest...
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07 December 2006
IBM and Microsoft's OpenXML: Update
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I'm impressed: IBM has just stuck a dirty great clog in the engine of Microsoft's machinations to get its Office XML format adopte...
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Second Life Goes Really Brazilian
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In a significant sign that Second Life is beginning to expand beyond its early-user, largely anglophone base, the Internet arm of Brasil Tel...
The Open Source Brain
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At first sight, there's something appropriate about Paul Allen paying for the Allen Brain Atlas : an interactive, genome-wide image dat...
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