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Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Martien van Steenbergen

Transcript of Howard Rheingold’s TED-2005 talk about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action—and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been … Continue reading →

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Peer-to-Peer Foundation Nederland Founding Members

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Het was een goede ont-moeting gisteravond in Amsterdam met de activisten van de Peer-to-Peer Foundation Nederland: James Burke (freelance software ontwikkelaar), Bas Reus (informatiekundige bij Favela Fabric en Marijn van der Pas (jouranlist bij het ANP. Heerlijk gegeten bij Bird … Continue reading →

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Decentrale organisaties zijn onverslaanbaar

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Wat hebben Geronimo, Skype, Wikipedia, Open Coffee, Al Qaida en Youtube met elkaar gemeen? Het zijn allemaal gedecentraliseerde netwerken. Rod Beckstrom en Ori Brafman gebruiken deze voorbeelden om een nieuw management systeem te modelleren. De toekomst van de organisatie is … Continue reading →

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Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Interesting… especially in the context of Aloha, and also potentially in the context of Baobab. Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book: “WikiTiki writes ‘Safari Books Online has a new interview with Barry Libert, one of the authors of … Continue reading →

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Nieuwe zakelijke modellen voor de transitieperiode

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Michel Bauwens tipte me gisteren op een artikel in 6 minutes business: Eindeloze groei in ons beperkt natuurlijk systeem is onmogelijk. Wij bevinden ons nu in een transitiefase waarin nieuwe peer-productiegemeenschappen zoeken naar ideale samenwerkingsvormen. En die zijn er in … Continue reading →

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Levitated | the Exploration of Computing

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.

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SixApart: Opening the Social Graph

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

SixApart: Opening the Social Graph: We think that the best way for you to manage your network is to stop thinking about all of the little pieces and to start focusing on the big picture: you and the people who … Continue reading →

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Levende organisaties

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Verborgen overeenkomsten tussen het biologische, psychologische en sociale leven. Het starten, groeien en floreren van communities en praktijkgemeenschappen. Kenmerkende eigenschappen verweven in een prachtige pareltaal die je helpen de creatieve en collectieve kracht van gemeenschappen in te zetten voor ‘baanbrekende … Continue reading →

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Groovy Actors

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects. Gerald’s email … Continue reading →

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Erlang distributed concurrent programming

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes. Erlang is a programming language designed at the … Continue reading →

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LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks: “People are growing weary of registering and re-declaring their friends on every new social networking site. But Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal and OpenID, says that the tools to build … Continue reading →

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How to create Hot Crowds

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

How to create Hot Crowds: Hot Groups are high performing teams with six characteristics: Hot teams are highly dedicated to end results and are enthusiastic They thrive on ridiculous deadlines and high hurdles to take They are irreverent and non-hierarchical, … Continue reading →

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OpenTaal

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Het project OpenTaal maakt vrije Nederlandstalige taalhulpbestanden voor gebruik in opensourceprojecten. In eerste instantie werken we aan spellingcontrole en woordafbreking. Ook denken we aan synoniemenlijsten en er is een begin gemaakt met grammaticacontrole.

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Briljante Programmeurs Netwerk

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag. Als we … Continue reading →

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