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08 October 2007
Another Reason DRM is Dead...
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Here's someone else who gets it: Yahoo Music VP of Product Development, Ian Rogers . I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no lon...
Why the GPhone Will Be an LPhone
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Makes sense : At the core of Google's phone efforts is an operating system for mobile phones that will be based on Linux, the open-sourc...
Look, the Dinosaurs Are Mating
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Oh yeah. Pity about the asteroid , though....
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ODF - Oh My Word
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In the red corner : So what about the OpenDocument Foundation? We fall into the middle area of trying to perfect the conversion to XML regar...
06 October 2007
The Genome Goes Read-Write
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Good Craig: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic ch...
05 October 2007
Why Free Flies - and Galileo Doesn't
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Nice little piece by Charles Arthur in the Guardian today that pulls together a bunch of disparate stories (including my Alfresco profile ...
Communia Communes with the Commons
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Hopeful sign , here: The COMMUNIA Thematic Network wants to place itself as the European point of reference for theoretical analysis and str...
SWIFTly Out of the Frying Pan...
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...it seems : The supervisory board of SWIFT has approved the plans for the restructuring of the systems architecture of the financial messa...
Full of Sound and Fury
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I didn't comment on this piece from TechCrunch entitled " The inevitable march of recorded music towards free " since it large...
BT Learns It's Fun to Share with Fon
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Interesting : BT and FON have joined forces to create a Wi-Fi community that allows its members to connect for free in thousands of places a...
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04 October 2007
IBM Makes Good on Patent Bloop
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Not something you see everyday - yet: IBM has put into the public domain and withdrawn its application for patent number US2007/0162321 - O...
CloudMade: Open Data on Cloud Nine
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It's always good to see people who have given to the commons finding a way to make some dosh too. I've written before about the wo...
03 October 2007
OpenCourseWare Meets YouTube
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This was bound to happen: YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley. The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun pos...
US Patent Reform Slouches Towards Bethlehem
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But at last it seems to be happening : This case involved a guy who was trying to patent the concept of "mandatory arbitration involvin...
DRM is *Really* Dead
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As I said , but don't take my word for it, just ask Microsoft : The Zune Marketplace online store has been restocked and redesigned to m...
How Europe Can Save the World
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One of the things I've always admired about Richard Stallman is his belief that if you do the Right Thing, eventually you'll win eve...
Plugging into the Enernet
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The current system of highly-centralised power production is extremely vulnerable - be it to man-made or natural disasters - and a more dece...
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wikiHow Shows How
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Although the fashinable wiki turns up all over the place, it's rare to come across really good uses of the idea. One fine example is wi...
02 October 2007
Rice's Digital University Press
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I've written before about Rice University's Connexions platform and programme, which aims to make courseware freely available for a...
The Art of the Fork
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I noted yesterday how useful the fork can be. But forking well is not easy. Here's an interesting example of how not to do it. IBM re...
01 October 2007
It's Up to Us
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Radiohead has a new album that you can download - and choose how much you pay. Alternatively, it has a CD version, two vinyl records, an e...
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We 'Umbly Petition...
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One of the novel options for companies introduced by open source is to release moribund apps in the hope that they might come to life again ...
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KompoZer: Recomposing Nvu
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One of the critical apps in any software ecosystem is a web authoring system. Until recently, the main free software offering was Nvu, but ...
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That's the Way to Do It
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Government won't make public data freely available? Simple: just stick it up online .
No Free FT, No Comment
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FT.com, the Internet version of the Financial Times, is instituting a new model for free and paid content on its website. Starting tomorrow,...
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