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Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as  Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.

The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.

In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with  complexity.

Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.

This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.

This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,

What are the elements of the Commission's Open Data package

A revision of the Decision governing re-use of Commission's own information

the Communication will support the creation of Europe-wide open data portals, making public data easily useable.

The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.

The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.

A new Single Market to deliver the benefits of the digital era

Improve ICT standard-setting and interoperability

Enhance trust and security

How do you permanently delete profile information on social networking websites? Can you transfer your contacts and photos to another service?

Individuals

should have the "right to be forgotten" when their data is no longer needed or they want their data to be deleted

Wien sagt JA zu Open Government

Eigener Open Government-Beauftragter erarbeitet Strategie für Wien

Mit der Erarbeitung dieser Open Government-Strategie ist der Chief Information Officer (CIO) der Stadt Wien, DI Johann Mittheisz federführend befasst.

OpenStack is an IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA.