Caterina Fake is the co-founder of Flickr, and recently launched Hunch, a decision-making website that is powered by the shared intelligence of users.
I have always had an attraction for people publishing their own work and using the web as a means of self-expression; I started out very early with a personal website in 1995. Those were...
Chris DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager for Google.
I’ve been a programmer since I was 12 years old, so I always knew I would get into computers, computer science, or information technology. I started using Linux when I was in college back in 1995. Then as my professional career developed I realized I really liked Linux and the...
Curt Smith is a musician and a co-founder of Tears for Fears.
I got my first record deal when I was 18 years old—next year that will be about 30 years ago, so I have been doing it for quite a while. The industry when I first started was very much one-sided in the sense that it favored the industry and not the musicians. We would sign...
Joi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons.
My entrepreneurial life happened when the internet started. And I think the biggest difference between my entrepreneurial life and the entrepreneurial life of some other people is the internet is all about—as David Weinberger would say—small pieces smoothly joined, and about people...
Chris Hughes is one of the co-founders of Facebook, and was the online strategist for the Obama campaign.
The people who can take credit for Obama's victory are the couple million people who made phone calls and hosted house parties and raised money and knocked on doors and did that by-the-book campaigning. But they were able to do that...
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the company that allows users to buy time in shared cars, in 1999. Now she has turned her attention to carpooling with GoLoco, a website she founded that allows you to use your social networks for cost-saving ride-sharing. A version of this article appeared online previously.
We have to get to a place where...
David Bollier is the co-founder of Public Knowledge, author most recently of Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, and the editor of OntheCommons.org.
I spent many years in Washington, mostly in the public interest community, with Ralph Nader and the head of the auto safety agency. Over time I came to see...
Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College.
I’m a chemist. I’m very interested in how the enormous amount of information that’s being put on the web can be used for science. The possibilities of doing things with that information are...
Andrew Shapiro is the founder and president of GreenYour, an online resources for sharing facts, tips, and products about sustainable living.
My colleagues and I have been working in the green business space for some time, but a number of us have backgrounds in IT and the internet, and so we started looking at the landscape of web...
Frances Pinter is the publisher of Bloomsbury Academic.
In academic publishing, the volume of what is published has increased phenomenally in recent years, because the higher education sector has increased globally quite a lot; there are more academics, more people writing, and so more material is coming out. And its all...
