If you’re a fan of embedded metadata (and really who isn’t?), you might want to check out the latest release candidate of MozCC, version 2.3.9. MozCC 2.3.9 isn’t available from addons.mozilla.org yet; we’re just putting it out there for some testing. You can find the download link in the wiki. This version includes fixes for…

It’s easy to predict that 2007 will be a good year for CC music when out of the gate three (that we know of) all-CC-all-the-time sites spring up: First up from Belgium there’s NetLabelism who are on their way to Den Haag to talk to our good buddy and CC music champ Marco Raaphorst. Next…

Last month, we blogged about the first CC Business Mixer, an event that seeks to bring together entrepreneurs who have ideas for a Creative Commons related business and VCs. Last Thursday CC board member John Buckman hosted a number of entrepreneurs who presented their business ideas to CC supporters and VCs. This networking event was…

Many of us share our images on Flickr, and some of us at Creative Commons were thrilled when Flickr introduced Moo Cards for purchase. Flickr describes Moo Cards as “tiny wonderful calling cards” for the real world. To make Moo Cards, log into your Flickr account and click on Moo in the “Do More With…

It’s good to know that Computerworld’s “clear winner” among web-based word processing and spreadsheet office suites is also the first to include support for CC licensing (and the requisite Flickr API/CC implementation). See last July’s post about ThinkFree and CC (screenshot below from that post). Via Slashdot.

Mosaickr helps you build mosaics from Flickr photos published under an Attribution license (and your own photos). The process is simple: 1) choose a master image, which will serve as a template for the mosaic, 2) choose images that will be used to fill in the mosaic and 3) download your mosaic. Any art form…

blocSonic is a new thing (blog or compilations label, you decide — a tastemaker in any case) that has just posted its first compliation of CC-licensed music. From the release’s 36 page CD booklet: One problem… the sheer quantity of netlabel releases and no simple way of sifting through it all to find the gems.…

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (O’Reilly) by Greg Korah-Hartman is now available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in PDF and DocBook (easily modifiable source files for the book) formats. The author’s “Secret Goal (i.e. why I wrote this book and am giving it away for free online)”: I want this book to help…

FlickrCC uses the Flickr API to search for CC licensed images and for images with a license permitting derivative use provides basic image editing operations (e.g., cropping, adding text) online, without downloading the image and starting a paint program. Last month we noted a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed images based on color,…

Congratulations to DJ/producer Electricwest, the winner of the Christopher Willits/Colors Shifting Remix contest. The contest, which was presented by XLR8R magazine, Ghostly International, and Creative Commons, gave remixers the chance to rework the CC-licensed audio stems of Willits’ track “Colors Shifting.” The track will be available on XLR8R‘s INCITE 49 CD, which will be packaged…