Flickr has abruptly ended a service that allowed people to buy canvas or wood prints based on pictures that appeared in its Creative Commons gallery, the photo sharing site announced on Thursday. The decision… Read more »
The UK-based Wellcome Trust, the world’s second-largest funder of medical research behind the Gates Foundation, has launched a free online magazine called Mosaic that is dedicated to longform science writing. The… Read more »
Companies can apply lean startup methods to their innovation and product-development process if they’re careful to avoid some of its pitfalls. Read more »
For the last ten years, Creative Commons has been offering content creators ways to share their works. Now it wants to let them know who’s been using their stuff. Read more »
Huge and expensive patent battles aren’t going away anytime soon– in fact, they’re likely to continue to pick up steam this year. Efrat Kasznik, of Foresight Valuation Group, lays out some… Read more »
Duolingo, a language learning and crowdsourced translation platform from Recaptcha founder Luis von Ahn, has raised $15 million in Series B funding from New Enterprise Associates and Union Square Ventures. Read more »
Al Jazeera has just launched a multi-lingual educational campaign about social media, with YouTube videos explaining how to use Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms. The goal is to make people… Read more »
How times change. In 2006, critics feared that one company would use a controversial patent to gain a monopoly over learning software in sch… Read more »
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has introduced a new feature that will be a boost for aspiring videographers looking for the “perfect clip” for a video… Read more »