Interoperability: Microsoft embraces Open Source …

In today’s connected world, interoperability is as important as security and reliability for IT professionals . This is due to an increase in technical heterogeneity which drives more complexity within, and on the edge of, their IT infrastructures. This leads to a greater demand for data and information integration as organizations seek to optimize process [...]

Networking: Is it really YOUR data?

Talking about Social Networking problems with sharing data
By Scobleizer
http://www.qik.com/video/17461 Looks like dataportability and Open Social have some policies to work out 8-/

TED Conference 2008

TED2008 will be our most ambitious attempt yet to deliver on that agenda. We’re building our program around the biggest questions there are. And because it’s TED, we’ll be seeking answers not just from the sources you might expect, but by bringing together multiple voices from very different disciplines. The “Aha” moments often come from [...]

The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses

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Abstract
As digital technology thrusts complexity upon copyright law, conflict has escalated between copyright holders desperate to institute a vigorous enforcement mechanism against copying in order to protect their ownership and others who underscore the importance of public interests in accessing and using copyrighted works. This study explores whether Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a [...]

Open standard Video with rss and metadata from Miro

Why should I make a video RSS feed?
What makes open video so much better?

Quality
With video RSS and BitTorrent support you can deliver HD quality videos that simply can’t be streamed on the web. For well-produced content or more thoughtful video, TV quality or higher resolution means people will actually want to lean back and [...]