Open Business continues to produce remarkable work investigating the ongoing developments of open business models, under the leadership of Christian Ahlert.

Recently, we came across the following:

– Interview with the founder of Freebase, a project to have a Wikipedia for data, which Tim O’Reilly calls “huge” in its implications.

See URL = http://www.openbusiness.cc/2007/05/23/wikipedia-for-data-freebase/

– A detailed comparison of social lending and p2p funding initiatives, such as Prosper, Zopa, Sellaband and Fundable, with some interesting conclusions about the experience so far.

See URL = http://www.openbusiness.cc/2007/05/20/the-emergent-field-of-p2p-finance/