Instagram-powered Art Show To Open In London

Instagram, the free iPhone photography app that's grown like a weed, has a lot of both fans and critics. Some critics allege that the app's photo filters ruin perfectly good images and will be looked back at later in the photographer's life with regret. Surely there are some great photos on Instagram though, right? I've seen some great stuff posted by others in my experience using it. I wish I was a better photographer myself so I knew how to use the app better.

One group of fans in London believe they've learned to use the app very well and they've gone from geographically nearby to each other, to having regular in-person meetups to what's now perhaps the next logical step: their own gallery art show. Here at ReadWriteWeb we love democratized publishing online and we love art, so we had to take a look at MyWorldShared - a gallery show of Instagram photos that opens in London on October 22nd.

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"My World Shared captures the concept of Instagram," the group says, "to record in images our world around us, our lives, our outlook, our views, and share that view with the rest of the world. It is an individual view, but one that others can relate to, like postcards from a friend."

Instead of postcards from exotic far-away places though, Instagram photos are often taken from right nearby your home. You've always got your phone on you. If you see something visually interesting - why not record it in a snapshot? It's an interesting intersection of ideas: Unusual sights, but in the usual places, perhaps with a slight tweak of a color filter and often of things that other people pass by regularly. It's a system of visual interpretation that anyone (who has an iPhone) can participate in.

Is this some kind of symbol of today's celebration of mediocre, unconsidered, shallow, frivolously decorated amateur art? Not if it's curated well! If most of the content on Instagram brings joy to no one but the people who post it - so be it. But the large body of images that the app makes easy to create are clearly leading to some great photos.

Why not put the best of it in a gallery? There are certainly Instagram users here in my home town of Portland whose work I would enjoy seeing printed large and on a wall.

I don't know if MyWorldShared is the first Instagram art show but I'm sure it won't be the last.

The show also got a write-up by Josh Wolford at WebProNews, who writes about his love of Instagram frequently. I found out about it from Ricky Yean of Crowdbooster.

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Slashgeo: openBmap.org: Open Map of Wireless Communicating Objects

Via Kurt, I learned about openBmap.org, a free and open map of wireless communicating objects.

From the website: "openBmap is a free and open map of wireless communicating objects (e.g. cellular antenna, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). It provides tools to mutualize data, create and access this map.

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Better Open Source Communities Through Data

An anonymous reader writes "Using exhaust data from Bugzilla, David Eaves describes how the Mozilla Metrics team is creating dashboards to improve the contributor experience and give open source community managers better situational awareness."

Better Open Source Communities Through Data

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“Open”

Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Closed. I've never liked Google's use of the word "open" to describe the Android operating system. On one hand, the "openness" has led to situations where carriers can more easily screw consumers. On the other hand, their system is really only "open" when it's convenient to be. Wanna include Google's services on your Android device? Sure, sign this partnership agreement. Wanna check in code for Android? Do you work at Google? No. Well then you'll have to wait. Open. But still, every chance they get, we hear from Google how open Android is, as if it's the perfect answer to every question. How are you going to compete with Apple? Open. How are you going to keep the carriers in check? Open. How are you going to make money from Android? Open. Why is the Android experience sub-par? Open.

“Open”

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Open.org an Open Source for your Open queries. Is that all?

A week ago, a question was raised by the latest owners of Open.org who go by the name Linux Fund organization, and we are still unsure if we have an answer to that question yet. The question was “What do we do with Open.org?” The question came up on the evening February 25th during a Birds of a Feather session at the Southern California Linux Expo. By now, most of the Open Source followers and enthusiasts know that the domain name of Open.org was recently acquired by Linux Fund from the City of Salem, Orgeon. The primary purpose for which the domain was used by Salem was for a kids-to-internet program named The Orgeon Public Education Network. The amount of money that was spent to acquire it is not disclosed yet and it was an auction at which the domain was purchased by Linux Fund.

Open.org an Open Source for your Open queries. Is that all?

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Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past

San Francisco, CA

21st January 2011

Dear Michael Moore-Jones, I just finished reading your thought-provoking post - “A Future Without Personal History” - over at ReadWriteWeb and felt compelled to write you this note. I was particularly taken by your concern that your entire generation will grow up without ever having written and mailed a letter, and as such will leave no permanent record of your lives. Hell, you know you’re getting old when someone fifteen years younger than you is bitching about the state of the modern world. Still, yours was an argument well presented; certainly better than I could have managed at the age of sixteen. And I was with you all the way. Or at least all the way up to your conclusion where you suggested a solution to the problem of ensuring a sustainable record of your life: “copying and pasting communication from all different formats into different documents stored both on hard drive and in the cloud." It's on that point we part company.

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How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream

geegel writes "The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article on how autocracies are now embracing open source, while at the same promoting national based IT services. The author, Evgeny Morozov, paints a bleak future of the future World Wide Web."

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PayPal Will Open A Huge Center In China (EBAY)

PayPal, which belongs to eBay, is going to set up "a global e-commerce hub" in Chongqing, China, Bloomberg reports. The center, which is set up in partnership with the local government, will offer services like foreign exchange settlement, telesales, training and verification for PayPal's global customer -- and perhaps give it a shot at the huge Chinese market.

Of course, China hasn't always been kind to eBay. The company entered China in 2002, bombastically vowing to dominate the market, and was instead thoroughly beaten by local juggernaut Taobao, and shut down its Chinese site in 2006. US tech companies are often confounded by local markets in Asia, especially China, and often end up disappointed.

This seems like a smarter play for the market. The company is partnering with the local government, offering jobs and investment, and perhaps get more merchants. Its foreign exchange offering solves a real problem because of foreign exchange controls in China.

Smart stuff. A story to watch.

Now Read: 10 Asian Tech Companies That Are Putting American Ones To Shame

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Comment on Amazon, WikiLeaks and the Need for an Open Cloud by Otto

I wouldn't say that it calls the idea of the cloud into question. But it does certainly show that Amazon is not a trustworthy facility to host your data or services.

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In Search Of Open Internet Access

Our regular programming, MBA Mondays, is being interrupted this week for a public service announcement.

The net neutrality debate is front and center again. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced that he will ask the FCC to adopt rules to protect the open Internet at its open meeting on December 21st. We have not seen these rules. Apparently nobody has outside the FCC. But we have been briefed on them. And we think that with one small tweak they will work well. But without that small tweak, they are problematic. My partner Brad has posted our firm's thoughts on the USV blog.

Back in the 80s and 90s, you could start, build, and invest in cable based services. But in order to get your new company distribution on the cable system, you'd have to go to the cable MSOs and give them free equity in your company for distribution. This mafia style shakedown has not existed on the Internet thank god. And the result is literally millions of web services and trillions of dollars of shareholder value.

That's what this debate is all about. The advent of broadband internet access has resulted in a duopoly in most markets. And the companies that provide you broadband internet access want the ability to "manage their networks." We think it is critically important to set some rules on how they can manage their networks to make sure we don't recreate the cable monopoly on the Internet.

We'd love to have an open and unregulated Internet access market. That will take a lot more competition in the last mile than we have now. We need policies that allow the spectrum and fiber to the home to become available and the capital to get invested in making that happen. Until that happens, we need some rules to keep everyone honest in the Internet acccess market.

The FCC's proposed rules prohibit unreasonable discrimination but don't define what that is. We think they need to go that extra mile so that startups don't end up in expensive lawsuits with monoplies with huge bank accounts.

And we are proposing that the FCC adopts the following language:

A non-discrimination rule that bans all application-specific discrimination (i.e. discrimination based on applications or classes of applications), but allows application-agnostic discrimination.

The logic and reasons behind this approach are laid out in our blog post on the USV blog. If you are interested in this debate, and we think you should be, please go read it.

This post orignally appeared at A VC and is republished with permission.

 

 

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See Also:

• AT&T On Net Neutrality: Trust Us, We Know What You Want
• CHART OF THE DAY: The REAL Reason Americans Don't Have Broadband – We Don't Want It
• The 10 U.S. Cities With The Fastest Broadband

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Comment on Open Thread: Managing Remote Workers Effectively by Simon Mackie

That's a good point, Avdi, and I think it goes back to the trust issue, too. Management need to understand that remote work is not the same as working in an office, and that being at a desk 9-to-5 is not the same as productivity. Transparent, clear, honest communication goes a long way, but fostering a culture to support that is difficult.

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News Corp. COO Chase Carey says he's open to a sale MySpace.

News Corp. COO Chase Carey says he's open to selling MySpace.

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