Usefuls
OCW.mit.edu for all MIT’s Open Course ware
Dannah Boyd – Berkeley – Blogs on the Net generation
Taking IT Global – Global UN of the Young – v. active SN site
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‘Wikis harnessed for profit’ eg wikihow, Shopwiki, Wikitravel.
Open source – Apache (server), Linux (OS), MySQL(database), Perl/PHP(programming language)
P88
Second wave of Open Source
‘How to integrate all the component bits of Open Source’ led to Spike source and ‘Automated test framework’ integrates and tests and produces something they call a stack
Innocentive – an ebay for searching or providing innovative solutions, can be used anonymously.
Yet2.com a place where companies can post underutilized assets.
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Creative Commons ( Launced 2002) www.creativecommons.org‘ offers content creators flexible licences for managing their creative rights’ ‘provides licences that allow you to protect your copyright ownership while allowing others to make derivative works’ can apply stipulations eg no commerce. Allows sharing text, pics, databases - anything
Ccmixter.org- mashup platform for remixing CC licensed content.
Webmasups e.g. combine houses for sale with google maps
Skype has been sold to ebay
Netscape became Firefox
Google maps is a software module
Amazon is a transaction engine
Socialtext – supply social computing technologies ( especially wikis ) to enterprises
World Community grid- donate spare computer power
Organisational spam
