Posts tagged “media”
Sony switches to Microsoft’s DRM
Sony has made a strategic move in it’s online music business and has decided to adopt Microsoft’s DRM as a technology for its online content. Sony had been trying push its proprietary ATRAC along with its own music player for PCs. Smart move, although I don’t support DRM that much. I guess Sony was trying [...]
Extending your reach
As I’m spending my evening in the office and trying to make deadlines, I found an interesting blog post. James Hong of HotOrNot, enlightened me to an entry on Facebook blog that will most certainly increase Facebook’s reach manyfold. “Now, when you’re writing messages, you can send the message to people on Facebook, and to [...]
Never under estimate the power of collaboration
MyFootballClub is a British initiative to purchase a football club in a collaborative manner with money raised from the community members. May sound impossible, but currently they have gathered close to ¬£1.4 million. The logic is quite simple, you become a member for ¬£35 and with that you purchase a “share” of the new club. [...]
Taloussanomat adopts CC-licensing
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 [...]
Flickr and its “cashpoint”
I let my Flickr pro account expire on purpose to see how the change would affect me. After the expiration I realised just how much I am into the service – although I don’t use it that much to be honest. Flickr has put its cashpoint (a term I coined for this) into an excellent [...]