1. Hungry Startups Vie for Net Fame at TechCrunch
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... creepy scary to the coolly crowd-sourced. Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wired/techbiz/startups/~3/RyyiP0gePpk/  ...

2. Twitter to Get Down to Business in 2009, Investors Say
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... person to be the boss,” said Wilson. “I think it’s a better fit for each individual’s set of strengths.” The company raised about $15 million this summer giving it a total of around $20 million in resources ...

3. How Altruism and Advertising Could Change the World
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A top marketing exec joins forces with a web 2.0 software developer to create If We Ran the World. The crowdsourced social network has the lofty aim of making the world a better place and the business ...

4. Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap
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... their task not as a holy mission but as something like a startup. A couple of software engineers came up with an innovative concept, then outsourced it to a community and let the wisdom of the crowd improve ...

5. Twitter Investor Meets With Open Source Textbook Startup
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One of the VCs behind Twitter had early preliminary discussions this week in a meeting with the open-source textbook startup Flat World Knowledge, co-founder and chief marketing officer Eric Frank tells ...

6. Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
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... source hardware, free for anyone to use, modify, or sell. Banzi and his team have spent precious billable hours making the thing, and they sell it themselves for a small profit — while allowing anyone ...

7. OpenSourceMatters
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Home of OSM

8. Open Source Initiative Blog
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http://www.opensource.org/blog/feed ...