Your Web, documented · WebPlatform.org. Tom Hulme: 'Open-source your product to unlock its full potential' This article was taken from the February 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Play-Doh was originally invented in the US as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. It wasn't for another 20 years that the nephew of its inventor Noah McVicker repurposed the putty as clay for pre-schoolers and rebranded it Play-Doh. It remains popular today.
No doubt kids had already played with the supposed wall-paper cleaner prior to its relaunch. Contrast this with another putty blob, Sugru, invented in 2003 by a postgraduate student at The Royal College of Art in London. The difference between the businesses is that Sugru is designed for emergence. As it becomes harder to predict how new products and services will be received by customers, we need to allow our strategies, products, brands and services to emerge based on real developing needs.
OA tracking project. Resources. The Case for Open Access Open Access (OA) stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse. Here’s why that matters. Most publishers own the rights to the articles in their journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee. Although many researchers can access the journals they need via their institution and think that their access is free, in reality it is not.
The institution has often been involved in lengthy negotiations around the price of their site license and re-use of this content is limited. Paying for access to content makes sense in the world of print publishing, where providing content to each new reader requires the production of an additional copy, but online it makes much less sense to charge for content when it is possible to provide access to all readers anywhere in the world. PLOS Takes a Different Approach. SourceForge - Download, Develop and Publish Free Open Source Software. Open Source Time (OpenSourceTime)