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05 November 2007
GPhone: Microsoft Still Not Picking It Up
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So the GPhone has landed, or rather : “We are not building a GPhone; we are enabling 1,000 people to build a GPhone,” said Andy Rubin, Googl...
A Question of Standards
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Andy Updegrove's Standards Blog is one of my favourites, because he clearly knows what he is talking about, and this means his analyses...
The 3D Digital Commons as Metaphor
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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...
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Web 2.0 is Dead, Long Live Openness
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An interesting post from Tom Foremski, who, even if he doesn't always grok the underlying dynamics of open source and its offshoots, i...
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The Bookless Author
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Somebody looking at the bigger picture : The past few days I have been in talks with Sina's VIP Book Channel. We will sign a contract on...
Open Source and Virtual Deals
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As usual, Matt Asay is spot-on with his analysis of Fonality's acquisition of Insightful Solutions, especially here: With this Fonality...
A Passionate Plea Against Patents
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One of the winners of the the 2007 essay contest on " Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries " i...
04 November 2007
I'm Sorry, Dave, I Can't Tell You That...
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One thing I often hammer on about is the essential re-usability of open content. Here's a good example: AskWiki , a kind of semi-intell...
03 November 2007
Open Source Hardware: A Meme That Won't Die
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Open source hardware is nice in theory, but currently self-contradictory in practice. The key thing about open source is that it's gene...
Steve Jobs as a Ratchet of Openness
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Normally, I would hawk and spit at the mere mention of the iPhone, since it's not exactly an open platform. But here's a more measu...
Thus Spake Yochai
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I am still optimistic. It does seem that people have been opting for open systems when they have been available, and that has provided a str...
Letting Floggers Go Hang
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This seems pretty unexceptionable, if a little hard to police consistently: Under laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year...
P2P'ers (Heart) CDs
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Imagine : A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian populat...
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02 November 2007
Credible, Moi?
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"We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and arou...
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Browser Wars 2.0
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Didn't we get all this sorted out a few years back? Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich and Microsoft's Chris Wilson are trading heated rhetor...
Finding Your Way in the Open Geospatial World
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It is clear that geospatial capabilities are going to be big, and this means the open source community needs to expand its work in this fiel...
Deconstructing the gPhone
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One of the reasons I've been writing about Google's purportedly-imminent gPhone is because of its knock-on effect on the whole GNU/L...
Desperately Seeking Pamela
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Groklaw's Pamela Jones is a true eminence grise of the area in the intellectual Venn diagram where computer technology and law intersect...
01 November 2007
MySpace and Bebo Back OpenSocial: Oh My!
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This open stuff is getting popular : MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, today joined a Google-led allianc...
Crowdsourcing Sousveillance (Again)
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I can't help feeling this will ultimately link with the story about wireless memory cards: Software that turns groups of ordinary came...
Long Live LibriVox
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To my shame, I only discovered the wonderful LibriVox recently. Now it's passed a milestone in its short history: Well, we did it. We ...
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Bring on the Fair Use Dolphins
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the unsatisfactory UGC Principles put together by media companies, particularly with regard to the exig...
Software Patents: Abolition Now!
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One of the constant themes of this blog is the pernicious effect of software patents - both in countries where they exist, like the US, and ...
Wireless Memory Card
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Although this isn't directly concerned with open source, I predict a lot of clever open source coders will start hacking this system and...
Beyond the gPhone: the gPC
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On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198, low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0 ap...
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