The right processes – broadly based in agile methodologies but this should not be limited to the development or production part of the job. The right culture – by which we mean (in a nutshell) networked, open, collaborative, impassioned, obsessive active participants in our rapidly mutating media convergence culture. There’s no doubt that buying in digital expertise, and getting down and dirty with hardcore tech Another week, another blog post on the subject of “why creative advertising folk need to embrace ‘technologists and their geeky ways’” once again ignites vigorous debate.

have a task to do, I create a space, and interactions with people who help me, take place in a open task thread. And the conversation doesn’t live at an open URL anyway. I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

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Ben and the CCAlps Salon invited me to speak on Open Everything in Vienna on 11 September at 19:30 in the Museumsquarter. First the red links, that’s the most unsuccessfull part of this draft: they are meant to represent the process of ‘Circulation of the Common’, the means by which the Commons socially reproduces itself, i.e. by open and free input , which is participatorily processed to result in a universally available commons This mindmap could certainly be more beautifully designed and presented, but I can’t refrain from already sharing, as it presents such a condensation of the 3 years of research we’ve undertaken at the P2P Foundation.

Special Issue: Open R&D and Open Innovation . This seems a closed academic journal, but the folllowing sample articles should show the articles are very promising: * Open R&D and open innovation: exploring the phenomenon . There is currently a broad awareness of open innovation and its relevance to corporate R&D. Edited by Ellen Enkel, Oliver Gassmann, and Henry Chesbrough. Volume 39 Issue 4, August 2009.

But it’s generated a fascinating open conversation about a big problem: what do advertising agencies need to do about digital, or interactive, or whatever it’s called? The really interesting thing is that this conversation is happening in the open. Lesson painfully learned: you can *only* do this stuff successfully by involving technical people fully in the creative process. This post has been brewing inside of me for some time. It’s has finally been burped-up precipitated by Ben Malbon’s provocative post at BBH Labs (yes, we are genetically related - he is

Facebook Developers Documentation Community Forums Events Open Source Resources Get Started Case Studies Facebook Connect fbFund Partnerships Bug Tracker Tools News Facebook Open Platform Open Source Projects Open Source Home Thrift Scribe memcached Cassandra phpsh Facebook Animation Facebook Firefox Toolbar Facebook Exporter for iPhoto flvtool++ PHPEmbed Public Patches Library Facebook Mirror Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook

Rather than simply showing you the great work that one of our Senior Designers, Julia, has created, I thought it might be useful to show the process behind the project… The process of breaking down the site, freely annotating and then rearranging and grouping components together is invaluable. Rather than being constrained by details, we now want to open things up and explore a wide range We’ve been working with LOVEFiLM for some time now. They’re a very exciting client whose business model is built around the internet.

Open access, which only considers the availability of the final product, is not enough to insure true openness, the process of peer review itself needs to be made open, participative and transparent, argues Benjamin Geer . Benjamin Geer (excerpts): “Publishing and peer review processes in academia are currently closed models. In my view, at least in the areas i operate in (social sciences and humanities), these processes should be far more, if not entirely, open, with a provision for privacy in special cases. I call this model Open-process

typical commercial organization's new product development process, the old Process 2011 Process Process 1. Selecting and other tools using open-ended questions and 'what ifs'. BLOG Google Wave (continued): continued): The Conversation Becomes the Work-Product B ack in