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In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live.
It's still part...

Oki Matsumoto of Monex sent me another interesting GDP slide supporting the idea that IT is equalizing GDP per capita.Before the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the worl...

I ran into Loic at MIPTV in Cannes where I was giving a talk about Creative Commons. He did a video interview. I got a bit carried away and blunt in the interview. ;-) Apologies for being a bit rud...

Shinsei Bank, one of great success stories in Japan, has always been an example of how legacy companies in Japan can be turned around with good management and smart methods. The "methods" include a...

Hot off the press...
Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding
San Francisco, CA, USA -- April 1, 2008
Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creat...

This is a request from the CC team. If you've got any stories, please let us know!Flickr Re-Use Stories
Calling all Flickr photographers and CC-licensors - we are compiling a list of interesting an...

Back in 2004, John Battelle blogged about the idea of Sell Side Advertising. I thought it was a good idea and blogged about it also. The idea was for the publishers to choose the ads that show up o...

Boy, I feel safer already...United States Patent 6,933,851
Hahne , et al. August 23, 2005
Air travel security method, system and device
Abstract
A method of providing air travel security for pass...

The iCommons Summit will be in Sapporo, Japan this year. I'll post more about this event later. We'll all be there and you shouldn't miss it.
We're asking for submissions for ideas for sessions no...

From Larry
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 for Congress in the Califor...