23.7.2005
”wikiHow is one of the more interesting cases of opening a proprietary content and community site. A couple of entrepreneurs bought eHow (editorially produced How To Guides, a dot com showcase) out of hock and appended a wiki to it. Today it may be the second fastest growing public wiki and they recently adopted Creative Commons licensing. The real story is the process of opening an asset, transitioning a community and how to be a net-enabled entrepreneur. ” (via Many-2-Many)
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Tom Coates writing about folksonomies etc: ” One particularly interesting experiment has been the Cloudalicious service. Cloudalicious was apparently inspired by the Grafolicious service which tracks changes in the rate of bookmarking for any given URL as well as creating browsable interfaces for getting to grips with tags. Cloudalicious takes this one stage further - showing how the actual tags that people use to describe a given URL change over time. This blurry mess of semantic data is known as a ‘Tag Cloud‘.”
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Wired writes: ”Over the next year, Intel plans to roll out WiMax - a wide-area wireless technology that can theoretically handle 70 Mbps. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, filmmaker David LaChapelle screened his new hi-def movie, Rize, by streaming it from Oregon and then transmitting it through a WiMax station in Salt Lake City. It worked flawlessly - soon even theaters won’t have to rely on physical media anymore.”
Some other perspectives over at Many-2-Many: ”Furthermore, barriers-to-entry for independent filmmakers are something of an institution in the film industry. Given enough interest, independent filmmakers can reach their understandably smaller audiences by streaming the films on-demand. Money for these films would go directly back to the filmmakers instead of bouncing around endless chains of middlemen.”
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7.7.2005
Could this be the new economy finally coming through: ”Safaricom Subscribers can now send any value of airtime depending on their current credit balance to another Safaricom subscriber’s mobile phone at no extra cost.”
It is of course limited to the subscribers of one specific service, but still an interesting approach to money exchange.
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