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05 January 2007
Virtual Copyright: A Palpable Hit
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This is rather amusing : Anshe Chung Studios, Second Life’s biggest property developer, is pressing media outlets to take down photos and vi...
Sound the Trumpet
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Talking of trumpets - or not , in Wikipedia's case: Trumpet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the trumpet was invented by a young ma...
Pegasus Flies Into the Sunset
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Sad news : David Harris, creator of the Pegasus email client, has ceased development of the software. During Web 1.0, Pegasus was my pref...
Google Earth = Open Earth
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Here's an interesting point from Google's Chris Dibona: Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution Images of the Earth ...
Open Fabbers Made Easy
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I've written before about open fabbers - effectively 3D printers that can make anything - and how it's crucial for there to be ope...
04 January 2007
I Want My Virtual London
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Imagine : flying at rooftop height up the Thames. You dive under Tower Bridge, then twist between the Gherkin and Tower 42 skyscrapers. As t...
The Man Who Invented Freedom of Information
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Anders Chydenius is hardly a well-known name; it should be: Last year, the Anders Chydenius Foundation celebrated the 240th anniversary of...
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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary
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The title says it all .
Wise Words on Wikia
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Here's an example of TechCrunch doing its job well: I was going through CEO Gil Penchina’s Wikia presentation slides at the Le Web con...
Playing a Different Kind of Open Game
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As the boundary between online games, online worlds, and even the real world all starts to deliquesce, here's an interesting essay on w...
03 January 2007
Opening Up the WebOS
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I realise I am a little late to this, but I have to say that YubNub really is the bee's knees : YubNub is a command-line for the web. A...
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Akkadian and the Opens
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Any post that manages to link Akkadian with openness gets my cuneiform inscription.
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Virtually a Real Currency
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And so the line between what is a "real" and "virtual currency" blurs yet further : Tencent, QQ.com's parent company...
Open MMORPGs: Hope Shifts to PlaneShift
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So the hope that Ryzom.org might turn into a major open source MMORPG didn't work out (although there are discussions about building ...
Mozilla Maketh Mucho Moolah
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Free software is not something you associated with money rolling in, but Mozilla seems to be in this enviable position : In 2005 the Mozilla...
02 January 2007
Platform-Independent Petitioners
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One of the great things about the Internet is that it lets people take the initiative in all sorts of ways. Take, for example, the current ...
ObjectWeb of Desire
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Unless you're deep into middleware , you've probably never heard of ObjectWare , creators of the JOnAS software. But something int...
Theonemillion(master)piece
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Now, I wonder where they got the idea for this ? We are asking you to draw a small square image using software on our website. You don't...
Public Domain Day
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An interesting list of works that have come into the public domain this year - in some places, depending on how idiotic the term of copyrig...
Finding Room for Placeblogs
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Given that there are several zillion of the things, it's surprising that more vertical blog segments haven't emerged. One obvious c...
Second Life Business Communicators Wiki
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There's a lot of froth flying around about the business use of Second Life, but not many facts. Here's a good resource in the making...
01 January 2007
Open Source War
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The article may be old, but the issue of open source war - the kind currently being waged in Iraq, for example - is sadly bang up to date (...
Free Thinking about Free Culture
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So the Free Culture Foundation has launched . That sounds good, but I can't really tell from the site what it's doing: the philoso...
Word the Day/Year: Computronium
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It's not often I come across completely new and unsuspected words/concepts, so it must be a good omen that I happened upon this today: c...
Welcome the Real and Virtual 2007
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I won't add to all the other prognostications for this year - not least because some people have already done it so well : let me start ...
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