We Live in Public follows the vision of Josh Harris. He envisioned a live streaming Internet broadcast a decade before services like Justin.tv and Ustream came about, and actually made it happen. To Josh, this was like theater or a performance art. And what the director, Ondi Timoner realized years after filming the movie that Josh’s message and idea was the streaming services we have today, so the documentary is a very timely piece for what we can learn from past mistakes and what we can improve on present day. The movie isn’t out on DVD yet, so there are live showings in select areas, so go to their website.
Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape/Mozilla engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company - giving away the software recipe for Netscape’s browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers. The copyright to the film is now available under Creative common licence vers. 3 for interested viewers to download and use. In the future the original footage from which this film was made will be accessible under the same terms.
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