The city is also "social open", in the words of Christophe Maire, an angel investor and the doyen of the city's start-ups scene, who sold his first firm, gate5 to Nokia in 2006 a deal which was crucial in getting Berlin's ecosystem off the ground.
Commercial, social, open, pay-per-view, whatever.
The talk includes his six words to live by on the Internet: Global, social, open, mobile, playful, intelligent — and a bonus seventh one: instantaneous.
The connected world is the only world they've known, and that means they come with an embedded attitude that's naturally more social, open, and focused on working together to solve problems and generate ideas".
"A fundamental shift is needed towards a more personalised, social, open, dynamic, emergent and knowledge-pull model for learning, as opposed to the one-size-fits-all, centralised, static, top-down and knowledge-push models of traditional learning solutions".
Instagram has proven to be the king of photo apps when it comes to social, open consumption, so it seems natural that it, too, would eventually sprout its own private communications channel, to tap into that opportunity as well.
The school makes it even better by having most of the social events open to youngsters.
He knows, for example, that they want everything to be "social" – ie open to the world.
Breivik's victims were his opposites: social, active, open, full of hope and idealism.
For information about the social events open to the public: (203) 203-7351.
Crowdsourcing and social networks open new opportunities for software development.
