twidox was extremely proud to have been invited by the organisers of this year’s Startup2 competition, part of the Nonick conference in Bilbao, to present their idea to the audience. From around 350 start-ups, 11 were chosen to present in front of a high calibre jury, consisting of:
Robin Wauters (from TechCrunch)Alasdair Bell (from Seedcamp)Nikos AnagnostouMarc GoldbergNicola MattinaJesús MonleónYaron OrensteinRupert Schäfer
It goes without saying that we were then even more proud to have won third place of the best start-ups, behind Genoom and the winner Colnect.
I have to say I was …

Image by Xavier Fargas via Flickr

Twidox is very proud to be one of 11 selected startups to have been selected for the Startup2.0 competition which is being held this year in Bilbao, Spain. Startup2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies. This year the is taking place as part of the nonick, which is an international event that will be held …

twidox stellt seine Kompetenz in der Datenverwaltung zur Verfügung
Die twidox GmbH hat nach einem Besuch am eingestürzten Historischen Archiv der Stadt Köln spontane und unbürokratische Hilfe zugesagt. MacGowan von Holstein bietet der Stadt an, die geretteten Dokumente schnellstmöglich in digitaler Form bei twidox einzustellen und sie von dort umgehend für jedermann zugänglich zu machen.
„Verfügbarkeit und Transparenz sind nicht nur die Eckpfeiler von Wissenschaft und Kultur an sich und jedem demokratischen Gemeinwesen, sondern auch der Profilrahmen in dem sich twidox bewegt”, erzählt MacGowan von Holstein, einer der Begründer des neuen …

Creative Commons Thailand has adapted Creative Commons licenses to Thai law! The localized licenses, launching April 2 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, enable Thai creators to easily share creative works by lowering legal barriers and prohibitive transaction costs.
The Thai team, led by Mr. Phichai Phuechmongkol of Dharmniti Law Office (DLO), conducted the license porting and public discussion with local and international experts. The localized licenses, the fifty-first completed worldwide, are the result of close collaboration with Creative Commons International.
CC Thailand describes the importance of the launch:
“Adoption of the …

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Domas Mituzas writes in an extremely nice post:
It takes time to understand one is ‘creative commoner’. I do have a t-shirt with such caption, but it is much more comfortable once you start feeling real power of use and reuse of information. Few anecdotes…

He tells stories of the joy of being reused (see our last post on that subject for similar).
Mituzas recognizes the importance of standard copyright licenses in facilitating such reuse…
Also, by using CC license I simply used lingua-franca of world I’m in - …