One of the most interesting fields where we witness the adoption of Open models is the Design one, where we can find cases of open web design ( OpenDesigns , Open Source Web Design , Open Web Design ), open product design ( Openmoko , VIA OpenBook , Bug Labs , Zoybar ), open meta-design processes , and even open architectural design . This is the case of the MIT researech about Open Source Buildings (or Open Architectural Design ): MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) . This Open models are now famous for being adopted in many fields outside software development, and we can see this as a proof of their importance and a clear sign of their success.

Detailed discussion by Eric Hunting : “The ideal situation for P2P architecture is where you can produce structures of small to large scale using intuitively simple modular systems with components on a human scale that are easy for the solitary individual to manipulate and which encode aspects of safety and structural engineering into their interface standards in the same way that the sub-components in a personal computer encode lower levels of engineering into them so that assembly and design higher up the food chain doesn’t have to think much about them. This is the province

Today and tomorrow I will be finalizing the reference architecture document below. ???Templates??? illustrate infrastructure and act as blueprints organizations can leverage as they make decisions on IT architecture. The focus on architecture makes templates one of my more favorite documents to work on. Templates??? While I can???t

There is an instinctive compulsion to architecture in the human being. A Sandbox for Architectural Recreation: We don’t normally think of architecture as a form of play. Without some degree of engineering knowledge employed to insure their integrity, large buildings would be quite dangerous. Eric Hunting on the Drive To Build: Left to their own devices, as children more often were in the recent past, they build.

Thing is, the reality of transitional housing is that it’s NOT going to be like the original architecture and if residents can’t put up with that difference for the sake of their community’s future, they’ve already declared it a lost cause and might as well just move away. Governments tend to make this worse by bad choices of transitional housing architecture, particularly when they choose things like trailer homes organized into military style camps without adequate infrastructure or the full functional elements of a living community. On our p2p-research list, Eric Hunting responded to a query by Marco Fioretti about housing solutions to the earthquake in Italy.

Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration by Bill Ives May 5, 2008 at 7:12 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Last week I had an interesting conversation with Eric Schurr, VP of Marketing and Direct sales at Awareness . We discussed their recently announced Facebook integration through their Awareness Facebook Application Framework. I have written about Awareness a number of times here and elsewhere (see Awareness – Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Platform ).

Choices tend to dwindle with size, however, as the smaller the form factor the less flexible the integration of components and the more exclusive the designs of motherboards become to the designs of enclosures. Network technology is now replacing the motherboard as the primary integrator of an overall personal computer system, with the resulting trend being a dissolution of the computer into a cloud of network integrated appliances that, individually, are becoming more blobject-like because they are so reduced in size and increasingly portable in nature. The last of our 3-parter on post-industrial design , by Eric Hunting.

There’s no question the world could be a much better place if the physical architecture of our habitat was so rationally structured. The only planned cities are dead cities -because they aren’t their architecture. Cities are not their architecture. Eric Hunting reacts to our earlier article by Doctress Neutopia, who called for a network of urban arcologies . Eric Hunting: “Generally, I’m in agreement with the ideals Doctress Neutopia presents in this article.

About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase 7 Tips for improving productivity through web-based software Telligent Releases an Integrated Suite of Collaboration Tools with High Powered Metrics by Bill Ives July 17, 2009 at 3:11 am · Filed under Web 2.0 Telligent is an enterprise collaboration and community software company that offers a social software suite for both public and internal-facing online communities. products also

Big Ideas for getting all that work done. Connectbeam Offers New Social Networking Application Integration Possibilities by Bill Ives April 28, 2008 at 8:07 am · Filed under Reviews Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Puneet Gupta, CEO of Connectbeam . As the post title suggests they believe that business networking begins around the sharing of ideas and information so they tightly integrated social bookmarking into their social networking platform. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People?