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Power to the Persons redux
I believe that VRM starts with you being able to take charge of your data – data that you want to capture, analyse and otherwise harness, both for fun or for usefulness. At the moment you are the last...
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The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant...
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[H]umans are copying machines. We learn by imitating one another. That’s how we learn to speak. That’s how we learn social norms. That’s how culture happens. Everything we do is an invitation to copy....
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It’s not about the money, it’s about ALL the money. - description of the entertainment business in Wired article Myka: One Set-Top Box to Rule Them All?
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SOA reminds me of the engraving over the entrance to the University of Wyoming’s engineering department in Laramie: CONTROL OVER NATURE IS WON, NOT GIVEN. That fits with the command-and-control...
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Fantastic! A feast for geek eyes. code_swarm – Apache from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo. An experiment in organic software visualization, code_swarm: This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history...
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Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress...
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- Open source is the altrusitic synchronisation of self interests. Simon Phipps replying on Twitter
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Many supermarket have self-service checkouts these day. Jeff Atwood has an interesting perspective: What fascinates me about self-service checkout devices is that the store is making you do work they...
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When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem. - Gordy Thompson, manager of internet services at the New...
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Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital files on a general-purpose computer, I get responses from people decrying the death of copyright. “How will authors and...
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They’ve [music industry] had these ten years to develop new business models. And they failed. Instead, the new business models have been developed outside of the legacy industry — and they’re working....
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