• Gaia Bottà, Musica d’ambiente, nuovi intermediari, Punto Informatico, 2009-06-05.

One interesting component of Cadyou’s content is its moderation policy:

Unlike many websites which let user upload their own content, cadyou is moderated ensuring that each file made available reaches quality standards, is tagged well and has great thumbnails so it is easy to find what you need.

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Finding a great image online elicits a little thrill, but it can be tricky – if you’re looking for a pic to pop into a presentation or illustrate a Web page, you need to know if you’re allowed to use that photo, and how you can use it. Today, Yahoo! Image Search is launching a Creative Commons license filter that allows you to simply and quickly find images that are available for reuse.

When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.

Congrats to the Yahoo! team for extending CC even further into their platform!

Forgive me, but a picture (screen shot) is worth a thousand words (searches):

From FMA’s Jason Sigal:

Every track [on the FMA] will be offered in high-quality without restrictions, registration, advertisements or fees. Many grant additional rights under Creative Commons agreements, making the FMA a valuable resource for podcasters, video producers, remix artists, and others in search of legal audio.  […] Radio has always offered free access to curated audio, and the Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose designed for the Internet era.

Since there is so much content on the site, the FMA is featuring particular curators such as WFMU, KEXP, and dublab.

So go register an account, and start downloading some of the 5,000 tracks already posted, or search by license type (special kudos to WFMU for incorporating some non-standard license search options here), and help one of the world’s greatest independent stations thrive on the net!

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that aims to create open content maps released under Creative Commons Attribution – Share alike license, using gps devices and other free sources.

You can find updated informations on WikiMedia coordination page and on Osm’s one.

There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up taking place right now in Berlin.

We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g. Wikipedia) pages:

• Wikimedia will set up a database to mirror the OSM data (Planet.osm)
• Wikimedia will set up its own rendering infrastructure for rendering tiles & other maps from the OSM data
• The existing MediaWiki extensions for displaying OSM data in a MediaWiki article will be improved to work acceptably in production on Wikimedia servers

To prototype all this we’ll be using new infrastructure provided by Wikimedia Deutschland. Once things have been tested there they’ll eventually be deployed on the main Wikimedia sites.

After discussion with the Wikimedia operations people (including Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma et al) there seem to be no objections to the above plan as long as:

• The maps will work not only for JavaScript enabled browsers but also non-JavaScript enabled ones
• The tools involved are improved to be relatively stable & deployable on Wikimedia, e.g. being able to embed more than one slippy map, the internationalization of error messages etc.
• The end product (the generated tiles or map files) are cachable so that they can be thrown at the frontend squids, as they’re static images this should be easy.

The featureset that we’re aiming for to be able to deploy this on Wikimedia sites from the view of the user (more can be added later once we’ve got it working) is:

• The ability to embed OSM maps in articles with something like the Simple image extension, perhaps automagically turning into a Slippy Map if the browser supports it
• A static or slippy map that can be used by geotagged articles so we can have maps without explicit inclusion of a <map> tag.

We’ll also set up a map toolserver for experimenting with other uses of OpenStreetMap data on Wikimedia. People with relevant projects can get access to this toolserver to try out their ideas for tools that could eventually be integrated on the main Wikimedia sites.

This project is seeking help from anyone who’s interested who’d like to be a part of making this happen, if you want to be a part of adding free maps to the world’s largest encyclopedia please subscribe to this mailing list:

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l

And/or read/edit/comment on the relevant wiki coordination pages:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia