Significant news for the future of the music biz, and a clearly persuasive case study for openly licensed content: NIN’s Creative Commons licensed Ghosts I-IV has been making lots of headlines these days. First, there’s the critical acclaim and two Grammy nominations, which testify to…
Imagine Couchsurfing…for drills. A platform with profile pages, ratings, and social networking for any physical objects, be it household appliances, office supplies, or exotic and rare rentals. Users upload information about objects they own, which can be searched and requested by other users. The objects…
(via Lessig) The Obama-Biden Transition Team website, change.gov, is now licensed under the most permissive CC license, CC Attribution 3.0. This is excellent news and a great step towards openness and transparency in the government. (For those of you wondering, apparently the creative works of…
Hands-on conferencing in the Hansestadt! BarCamp Hamburg is in full swing in the welcoming OTTO GmbH offices. There’s 83 slotted sessions over two days. Quite a few sessions are talking about “x + 2.0” (China, Mobile, Hotel, Browser Games, World Improvement), but thankfully there are…
“Wer hat denn DIESES Foto gemacht?” Ein verdrossener Klick und das Fotoalbum blättert weiter. “Das glaube ich nicht. Es wurde wirklich überall fotografiert…” Ärgern über unvorteilhafte Fotos, das gehört dazu zum Leben der Promis und Hollywood-VIPs, die tagtäglich Hunderte veröffentlichter Fanfotos entdecken. Nur zum Leben…