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Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Freeman Dyson, I love you! …the rules of Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good … Continue reading →

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Evolvability

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

For extremely profitable price/quality ratios, aim to maximize evolvability for all stakeholders by: minimizing the efforts to develop, release and maintain your product; maximizing scalability; maximizing innovation to happen elsewhere—make it open source and use crowd sourcing; maximizing adopting & … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing Directory

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Just one day after my regestration at Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing, Carl at Creative Crowds tipped me on the Crowdsourcing Directory. Uhmpf… awful lot of creative crowd work going on. A sheer infinite flurry of innovation sources. Howcome I … Continue reading →

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ZFS on a laptop

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Eric Kustarz‘s excellent point in favour of using ZFS for your laptop to create a extremely reliable store for all your personal data. Sun Microsystems is really making a change here. Wish for ZFS to become abuntantly ubiquitous. Next: swap … Continue reading →

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Aloha: Emerce Co-Creation Update

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Korte Emerce update: Ongeveer 200 mensen Hele goede lezingen van: Roger Beekman en André Bouwman van ADK/60 layers of cake over open source. Sander Dullaart van Favela Fabric over teruggeven van aandacht, vraaggestuurd aanbod. Gert Hans Berghuis van Fabrique over … Continue reading →

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Update Emerce Update Co-Creatie

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Update van de Emerce Update Co-Creatie: Ongeveer 200 mensen Hele goede lezingen van: Roger Beekman en André Bouwman van ADK/60 layers of cake over open source. Sander Dullaart van Favela Fabric over teruggeven van aandacht, vraaggestuurd aanbod. Gert Hans Berghuis … Continue reading →

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Aarde blog live on Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Creating a brand new country is a startling endeavour. And today is Earth Day. An excellent day to go public with my passion. I’m giving it my whole heart, soul, and mind. Previously code-named LandONE, I’ve renamed it to Aarde. … Continue reading →

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De macht van de massa

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Ode ziet het Wiki-licht: Van de andersglobalisten tot de Wikipedianen: zelforganisatie is het sleutelwoord. Niet doen wat je wordt opgedragen, maar doen wat je kan en wil bijdragen – voor een groter geheel. Marco Visscher beschrijft de opkomende participerende cultuur. … Continue reading →

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Apple to design for diabetics

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Amy Tenderich writes about iPod design for diabetes care: Why, oh why, do consumers everywhere get the most “insanely great” little MP3 player, while we whose lives depend on medical devices get the clunky stuff of yesteryear? Excellent idea Amy! … Continue reading →

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Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Article in Automatiseringgids on Luis von Ahn‘s ESP Game—a.k.a. the Google Image Labeler—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding Captcha. Thank you very much Luis!

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Natural Capital Institute

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Eduard Povel tipped me on the Natural Capital Institute today—helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence. All open source. Hurray! Wow, what a fine initiative. I’m going to contact them to find synergy between NCI and … Continue reading →

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Co-creation: whoever has the smartest customers wins

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Do consumer driven innovation, customer care and Wikinomics work? Well, at Procter & Gamble they do. Read CIO Magazine on Wikinomics. I’m a big big fan of co-creation and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like … Continue reading →

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NNN Concept

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Een voorlopig concept voor de werking en functionaliteit van NNN. Alles op één A4-tje. Bespreken we met de kernkring op vrijdag 23 maart in Haarlem. Klik op het plaatje voor een hoog-resolutie PDF versie (100 KB).

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MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free: “eaglemoon writes ‘MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free PDF download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as … Continue reading →

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