Category: All Things Open
Posts on Open Source, Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Open Business… the list goes on.
First vlog
This is the first of a monthly series of short video blog (vlog) updates on some of the things I’m working on. This one is about where we are with the Mesh Potato. Steve Song – First Vlog from Steve...
WGSDIA – Launch Google Voice in Africa
This the second installment in a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for this post in the preface to the series. Imagine that...
WGSDIA – Support Open Spectrum
This the first installment of a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for this post in the preface to the series. The single...
The Yin and Yang of Open
In Eric Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth, he describes a fascinating software experiment modelling the prisoner’s dilemma but not between two decision-makers (as in the classical scenario) but rather in a multi-actor evolutionary landscape in which anyone can make a...
OLPC XO-2 goes Open Hardware
I admit to being a little gobstopped by Nicholas Negroponte’s announcment in the Guardian that the next generation OLPC will be Open Hardware is a pretty big deal. I picked up the announcement this morning from Make Magazine editor, Phil...