P2P Business
Designing Business for an Open World
A MUST READ: Marvelous summary for beginners of the new open business model, with a very useful overview of concepts. By the Institutue for the Future and Howard Rheingold.
Microstock photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Microstock photography or Micro Stock Photography is an offshoot of traditional (macro) stock photography. What defines a company as a microstock photography company is that they  source their images almost exclusively via the Internet.
The New York Review of Books: Books@Google
Review of books on Google and the Long Tail in books and culture.
Open Source for Open Minds — OSalliance
Cooperative model for free software programmers?: “We build and maintain web machines, databases, telephony gateways or media hubs using Free Software.”
Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead – Peter Jenner | The Register
The major four music labels today are “f*cked”, he says. Digital music pricing has been a scam where the consumer pays for manufacturing, distribution, and does all the work – and still has to pay more.
P2P Culture
Jump TV, Internet Television Brings Immigrants Home – Forbes.com
JumpTV, now connects immigrants in the U.S., Canada and Europe to television stations in their far-flung homelands. The Toronto-based company distributes 230 live television feeds from 70 countries.
Couchsurfing’ Travel Takes Off on Web
A number of Web sites have sprung up to help pair travelers searching for a place to crash and hosts with a spare couch. Sites like hospitalityclub.org, couchsurfing.com, globalfreeloaders.com and place2stay.net are often free, serving only as middlemen.
Read online and download | OpenLife.cc
Download the book on the philosophy of open source here.
Cafune – Brazilian ‘open movie’
In his debut on theatrical circuit, the director chose to bet on audacious and innovating distribution strategies. Besides using traditional and virtual networks, Vianna licensed his film under the Creative Commons license.
ThrowawayyourTV’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
Movies and documentaries you can see on the web
P2P Politics
Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
A MUST READ: political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon’s in-depth survey of everything that can and probably will go wrong in our environmentally and economically fragile world over the next few decades.
SolidarityEconomy.net » About Us
We are part of the global left. We distinguish ourselves, first, by our conviction that markets are part of socialism and that all economies are subsets of an ecosystem whose imperatives are ignored at the peril of all.
Chit Chong on the rights of future generations
People of future generations have the same rights as people today, including a decent environment, but this is being destroyed. Current generations must take responsibility for the exploitation of future generations.
Mutual Banking Clearinghouse – P2P Foundation
According to Kevin Carson, in a blog entry on a strategy to create a cooperative counter-economy, mutual banking would be essential to consolidate such an alternative economy, but is currently illegal.
Nine spheres of governance
DSTAIR separates the essential elements of government and society into nine “spheres”. The premise is that each sphere can be described in terms of a finite set of especially important institutional arrangements
P2P Technology
Trends in the Living Networks: Web 2.0 and user filtered content
Social search engines such as Eurekster and Yahoo!’s Search Builder indicate the next level of sophistication of search, enabling filtering aggregation of specific communities rather than the web at large.
JAJAH – web-activated telephony
Free local and international calls with your regular phone.
OScar – Open Source Car – Reinvent Mobility – Home
OScar is not just a car. It is about new ways of mobility and the spreading of the Open Source idea in the real (physical) world.
OSCar – The Open Source Car Project
Background article on the project.
We are a group of alternative energy enthusiasts who want to spread the message that It’s EASY to make your own power FROM SCRATCH! Otherpower.com’s headquarters is located in a remote part of the Northern Colorado mountains.
Unit Structures: The Colonialist Perspective in Social Software
Colonialist vs. culturally adaptative strategies of social software design.