Is Scabulous Piracy?
2008-03-03 15:40:27 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users.
The extremely popular game Scrabulous is played primarily on the Facebook social-networking site.
Fans of the game are obsessive. They play against friends, co-workers, family members and strangers, and many have several games going at once.
Everyone seems to love the online game — everyone, that is, except the companies that own the rights to Scrabble: Hasbro, which sells it in North America, and Mattel, which markets it everywhere else.
In January, they denounced Scrabulous as piracy and threatened legal action against its creators, two brothers in Calcutta named Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla who run a software development company. Both Hasbro and Mattel said they were hoping for a solution that would not force them to shut down the game. [by Heather Timmons, New York Times]
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2008-03-02 12:47:14 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. Almost 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. UPDATE |
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2008-03-01 19:18:02 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Business
Nicholas Negroponte is to give the keynote speech at an event in Harvard Business School on March 2nd. The subject matter will be Social Entrepreneurship. Here's an exerpt from the Social Enterprise Club website:
Social Enterprise brings together the nonprofit, private, and public sectors - and puts best practices from across industries and around the globe to work toward the common good.
The 2008 Social Enterprise Conference is a forum for sharing ideas to create a better world. We are in an exciting time for social enterprise - each week brings news of multi-billion dollar philanthropic initiatives to solve global problems and new corporate strategies fostering sustainability and social responsibility. Social enterprise offers not only economic resources, but also the strategic and management expertise to ensure that change is long-lasting and large-scale.
As students and practitioners - and as present and future leaders - it is up to us to turn these ideas into reality.
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2008-02-29 22:12:35 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Here's an organisation that stands for and highlights some of the most important issues in the remix and fan culture spaces. LINK
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
OTW was created to work toward a future in which all fannish works are recognized as legal and transformative, and accepted as legitimate creative activity. Our mission is to be proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge, and to preserve our fannish economy, values, and way of life by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity, while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans. LINK
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2008-02-28 00:22:36 Posted
by: itison Category: Business
Author of the Long Tail, Chris Anderson, writes up a very good article on Wired about the future of business. This is very worthwhile reading... FREE INFORMATION UPDATE |
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2008-02-27 19:42:34 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
From the Be Kind Rewind YouTube Channel:
We'd like you to make your own sweded movie! Using your favourite film as inspiration, make a short movie that's no more than 2 minutes and you could win a whole bunch of LG entertainment equipment courtesy of the Viewty mobile phone and a holiday to the home of movies, Hollywood USA, courtesy of American Airlines.Your movie will be judged on its creativity and also its humour, so be sure to make it clever and funny. UPDATE |
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2008-02-26 09:13:00 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
From Lessig.org:
'With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08? As explained on the ActBlue page, all will go to (the yet to be established) Change Congress organization.
Thanks to everyone who helped me make this decision -- and especially the many friends in the harshest way told me it would be a mistake.' - Larry Lessig UPDATE |
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2008-02-24 11:48:45 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
From Larry, talking about his new website: lessig08.org - This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects — first, a Change Congress movement, and second, my own decision whether to run as a Democrat for Congress in the California 12th.
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.
Many friends have weighed in on that decision — both strongly in favor and strongly opposed. Many more have joined draftlessig.org and a Facebook group asking me to consider it.
Watch or listen and you will understand some of my reasoning. Feel free to send your thoughts or advice to lessig@lessig08.org (though please excuse any slowness in my response).
— Larry Lessig, February 19, 2008
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2008-02-22 19:11:43 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
We are very pleased to announce that we have partnered with Eyespot to bring our users the ability to upload video to Total Recut. Over the next few weeks, we will be integrating Eyespot's online video editing software into the site aswell so that our users will be able to edit their videos without leaving the site or downloading standalone editing software. UPDATE |
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2008-02-21 01:30:33 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
It's official: Toshiba, the leading partner in the HD DVD camp, has waved the white flag. The next generation DVD format war is over. Blu-ray wins.
The move to stop production of HD DVD players and recorders was an "agonising decision", according to Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida, but one that the company had to take after "judging that there is no way of winning the competition."
Looking back, the tipping point came when Warner Bros. decided to join Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema and Lionsgate, by defecting to the Blu-ray camp -- resulting in an estimated three quarters of new film releases being available exclusively on Blu-ray.
What followed was to some extent inevitable. Blockbuster, Netflix and Wal-Mart all dropped support for HD DVD, and Best Buy also said it would favor Blu-ray. The old adage, "follow the money", which in this case means content, applies. [from Steve O'Hear at ReadWrite Web.com]
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