Peer2Politics

OpenSource.com: As an organization or even individual there always seem to be questions when considering whether or not to make your project or code snippet open source.

In this book, he details the shift from a hit-driven entertainment and media industry into one in which hits lose in importance, while much of the profit lies in selling the hundreds of thousands of non-hit titles. A crucial insight came when the CEO of a “digital jukebox” company asked him to estimate what percentage of the 10,000 albums available on the jukeboxes sold at least one track per quarter. Anderson guessed 50 percent, but was off by a wide margin, as the answer was 98 percent.

Read about the country's cultural shift from ownership to sharing, and how Boston is ground zero for the new sharing economy of cars, houses, books, more.

A new economic model is emerging as the millennials are thinking smart about ways to make money on everything they own.

Most of us learned the culture of sharing back in kindergarten, but in recent years the idea has grown into a multibillion-dollar online marketplace offering consumers access to affordable alternatives to goods and services. The “sharing economy,” as it is known, burst out of the recession with startups such as accommodation website Airbnb. The platform -- and the others like it -- created a community for collaborative consumption, the much-buzzed-about euphemism for what’s mine is yours (and you can find it online for a price).

The sharing economy has an estimated $26 billion value, including online platforms that make it easy to do everything from renting out spare rooms in your home (AirBnb) to carsharing (Zipcar), clothing swaps (ThredUP), even sharing extra portions from homecooked meals ( Shareyourmeal, of course).

Hitting back at media mogul Hans H. Luik’s remarks last week that his generation of businessmen had more alpha qualities, isePankur CEO Pärtel Tomberg said that the entrepreneurs of today are more international and less inclined to corruption than their predecessors.

Samuel Palmisano says companies, countries and cities need to follow the same three guidelines to succeed in today's integrated global economy. (¿Cuáles son las tres claves para competir en la economía actual?

Summary: The Internet of Things will consist primarily of machines talking to one another, with computer-connected humans observing, analysing and acting upon the resulting 'big data' explosion. Here's how the next internet revolution is shaping up.

RT @jacqbott: W/ Sharing Economy Law, facilitating open, trusting relationships will become lawyers key role http://t.co/QUGh0yIu #shareable

THOSE ARE THE FINDINGS OF AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY THAT ASKED 64,000 PEOPLE IN 13 COUNTRIES TO IDENTIFY QUALITIES THEY WANT IN THOSE AT THE TOP. HERE, ONE OF THE REPORT'S CO-AUTHORS EXAMINES WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP.

Participatory online platforms and visual tools help gauge and meet the actual needs of the population. (Collaborative Platforms Empower Citizens To Shape Their Communities [My Ideal City].

Cyber-espionage isn't limited to the military, with freelance hackers doing damage to internal commerce.

There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It’s not a brand new platform. It’s what Google has used for years. It is Google’s foundation. It is what makes Google, Google. And now it’s open for the first time to developers and businesses.

Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy (Millennials and tech drive more sharing and closer living.