James’ post on re-inventing Hot Or Not is a good comment from a founder’s perspective how sometimes you have to give up a lot inorder to win. A definite read for all start-up enthusiasts.
Michael Arrington from Techcrunch also points out an interesting fact: Up to ten marriages per day can be tracked to couples who originally met at the site.
Update: James has added part II and part III to his initial post.
Kauppalehti “reports” that Universal, the movie company, states the decline in agricultural revenue is due to roaming P2P networks. The logic is that as people go to movies less, there is less popcorn to be sold. Mmm’kay. The P2P networks that are in question include (seriously, I’m not making this up): Torrent, Napster and eMule. Last time I checked Napster was legally in the music business. Oh well, small misquotes happen to all of us…
Read the full article here (and here’s a screencapture to prove it).
I wrote about the logo I designed for Freeculture.org some years back over here. Take a look at the new CC remix icon over here and in the image above. Looks funnily similar! :)
Those lego-blocks seem to have made it big time! That makes me one happy camper!
Book Depository is not your ordinary book store online. It’s got a massive and very competitive range of books and even some audiobooks. The prices are almost always better than Amazon’s and what’s best: Delivery is free!
I just ordered Getting Things Done by David Allen and Rules for Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki - total price including delivery £13.02, not bad.
Finnish music sales are showing serious signs of slowing down. It seems that Free Record Shop is going to leave Finland. (via)
This is pretty phenomenal - Taloussanomat, one of the largest business papers adopts Creative Commons licensing in their articles. Hooray! They apparently began to license all their articles with CC: BY-NC-ND license.
I’ve been a strong supporter of Creative Commons ever since learned of Lessig and the movement. Later on I helped the US Freeculture movement by designing a logo for them. It seems that they still use it - I piled the three legos on our dinner table and snapped a photo of them, little did I know it they would be so famous :)
Anyhow, correct me if I’m wrong but this is the first time in Finland that a major news company adopts a Creative Commons licenses. A good day for Finland, a very good day.
Update: They still Copyright news from STT - ironically I found this out through an article discussing piracy/copyright criminals.
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