Archive for 'webcoop'
Do One Thing Well — Over and Over Again
What would a web services co-op look like? I asked that before, and I imagined an organization that could do many things. Perhaps too many. One trouble with a co-op is the potential for disputes and infighting among members. If a web co-op had a wide-open mission, then the particulars would end up getting fought […]
Posted: September 25th, 2006 under webcoop.
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Community from the Inside Out, and Empty
Last week, Tim O’Reilly was promoting a special OSCON session on his blog, Radar. OSCON is billed: “a place for the open source community to gather together and gain momentum.” I am a longtime free software user and contributor, so figure myself as a casual member of the open source community.
Reading Tim’s piece, I found […]
Posted: July 17th, 2006 under webcoop, oscon, oreilly.
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Web Co-op? What’s That?
Back in October 2005 I wrote:
So many web services use free software, yet the services themselves, their organization and management, are closed. When will we see a web service that is literally owned by its users, like a cooperative? Or is one already flourishing somewhere?
As a capitalist, I can go buy shares of Yahoo! or […]
Posted: July 10th, 2006 under webcoop, social platform.
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