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Next up in the Lightweight Business Models workshop, a talk by href="http://marc.blogs.it/">Marc Canter.  Marc is kind of a crazy
loud guy, quite a contrast from the mild-mannered Jason :-).  His talk
was about open standards:

• Blog posts - where we are today.  RSS is a standard for
  transferring author, title, timestamp, contents, url.
• XML schemas - new kinds of microcontent.  iTunes has itms:
  namespace that they use to add music-specific information to their
  feeds.
• Marc thinks more people will write reviews than blogs - their
  opinion on their hairdresser, a movie, etc.
• FOAF - XML standard
  for information about people.  Marc is invovled with a project called href="http://www.socialtext.net/foafnet/index.cgi?FOAFnet">FOAFnet,
  for sharing FOAF info.
• Creative commons - standards for releasing copyrighted
  information.  Combined with open APIs, anybody can upload/find/download
  freely available multimedia.  (see OurMedia)
• OpenEvents - sharing
  information about events
• Open standards for reviews - currently reviews are locked in to
  single sites - Epinions, Amazon.

These standards provide an open infrastructure, which companies can
then build business models on top of.