The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
“I’ve just posted a video of a cut down version of my stump speech on my new book The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, explaining why it’s often better to compete with pirates in the market place rather than fight them in the courts, and why we as a society need to reevaluate the ways we think about sharing information.”
“In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons. The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically.”
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Google is making waves in the social networking pond this morning with an as-yet-unofficial announcement about a new site-independent API, OpenSocial, that aims to make it easier to connect your profile and friends across social networks.
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/google-cracks-o.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/google-to-out-open-facebook-on-november-5/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN3043165520071031
An interesting direction for the dub-dub-dub:
“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.”
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.semanticweb.org/