http://freelayers.org all layers have to be free Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:10:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jan and me had the chance to talk to Andr and Benjamin Henrion from the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) at the 24c3 Chaos Communication Congress. Besides some general talk about the activities of the FFII in Brussels we get a few insights into the current campaign against ... http://freelayers.org/2008/interview-with-jan-and-benjamin-from-the-ffii-at-the-24c3/ I followed a lightning talk of Georg Jhnig on serchilo.net at the 24c3 Chaos Communication Congress. The video is available now in the torrent network. I uploaded it to Google Video (please post alternatives as comments). Last year I already published an interview with Georg in German. He put quite ... http://freelayers.org/2008/serchilo-meta-search-engine-with-wiki-commands/ Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder of Mahalo.com. With Mahalo he tries to establish a new search engine based on user submitted search result pages. In order to motivate people to write search result pages Mahalo pays part time guides 10 to 15 USD. Part time guides who submit a ... http://freelayers.org/2007/mahalo-%e2%80%93-new-entry-in-the-search-engine-market-an-alternative/ According to Theo Rhle of the University Hamburg (Germany) the commercial exploitation of advertising space has become the main task of search engine companies. In Think of it first as an advertising system: Personalisierte Online-Suche als Datenlieferant des Marketings (pdf) he analyses the elicitation of user data of search engines ... http://freelayers.org/2007/selling-advertising-space-priority-task-of-search-engine-companies/ Some time ago Andreas Milles of Spreadshirt had a presentation at the Berlin Webmonday about his companies Open Logo Contest. They had developed a community that worked on the development of their new logo. In the end they actually took the logo design of a free designer, who they only ... http://freelayers.org/2007/open-business-spreadshirt-and-jamendo/ Some questions should be answered that could help to understand what free layers actually are. 1. What is the common idea behind free culture, free content, free software, free hardware, free infrastructures and a free economy? 2. What are working examples of free layered projects and why do they work and others ... http://freelayers.org/2007/what-are-free-layers/ Countless working examples of people creating free layers show the huge potential of free and open systems. However interior and exterior difficulties and problems in communities that are engaged in projects like in the free software world cannot always be overcome. Successful as well as failed ideas and projects can teach ... http://freelayers.org/2007/communities-engaged-in-free-layered-projects-%e2%80%93-examples-for-a-free-society/ What made and makes the development of free software, free content and free infrastructures " alternatives to centralized systems of knowledge distribution and development possible? What made and makes the system of the many in contrast to the system of the few and powerful possible? The Internet is an important factor, ... http://freelayers.org/2007/free-society-read-write-society-a-culture-of-openness-and-free-collaboration-%e2%80%93-begin-of-new-history/ It is often stated that the Internet is the basis of the free exchange of software and content " all kinds of information and knowledge. Yes, the Internet especially in the 1990s could be regarded as a free infrastructure that enabled free exchange. This is changing rapidly throughout the world, ... http://freelayers.org/2007/freedom-of-exchange-past-internet-future-community-networks/ Imagine a world, where everything is free. Impossible? Right now people all over the world are working on this idea. They want to create a world where you can instantly have access to free content like free music, videos or texts, free software like free operating systems, programs, computer games ... http://freelayers.org/2007/a-world-where-everything-is-free/ Welcome to my free layers blog! http://freelayers.org/2007/hello-world/