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Yesterday Radiohead released their new album "In Rainbows".  To stir the pot, the band are no long with a record label so released it independently through their website.  The beauty of it, you can pay whatever you like for the album download - yes - that includes $0. I paid  £ 4.45 (about $10) because to me, that is what it is worth.  I won't lie, I felt a really ...

When was the last time you used your DVD player, mobile phone, MP3 player, and wondered why that button was there, or why they seem to design purely to compete without any original innovation and creativity? That could all change with the TechCrunch40 finalist CrowdSpirit from France. We've seen how Ponoko can use crowdsourcing to shake up the supply chain for furniture, jewelery and general industrial design. ...

Do you think 50,000 people from all over the world who have never met each other could make a feature film? A Swarm of Angels is a web 2.0 community aiming to create exactly that, with a budget of £1m by gathering 50,000 people willing to contribute £25 each. The film gets released under creative commons and any profit gets put into the next project. ...

   If you need that little hit to see if your idea is viable, a new ongoing competition backed by Advanta Bank called Ideablob has just launched and might be able to help.  The site lets aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners share and compare ideas and compete for a monthly user voted $10,000 prize for the best idea.  Advanta claim that launching Ideablob is:"Supporting and providing service to small businesses ...

At the recent TechCrunch40 conference New Zealand startup Ponoko caused a stir (and managed to pull 1 million hits to their site in under 24 hours).  It is a fabulous business proposition: a matchmaking service for designers, manufacturers and consumers.  Put simply, if you are a designer (and we are talking industrial here) you can get your ideas (jewellery, coffee tables, whatever) made by a convenient manufacturer somewhere ...

Australian blog-to-email service Zookoda has been acquired by PayPerPost for an undisclosed amount. Zookoda was started in May 2006 and went up for sale in September 2006. With 10,000 bloggers sending emails to 2.3 million people, the numbers speak for themselves. PayPerPost has the controversial business model of paying bloggers to write about specific things. There has been a lot of talk about whether this will corrupt the ...