While reading some of my favourite blogs, I stumbled upon two examples of Web 2.0 services that enable people to redesign products or, way better, that crowdsource the redesign process. The first one is RedesignMe.com: Open Innovation in Product Creation

RedesignMe aims to improve the products and services around us by collectively rethinking bad products into [...]

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Design, Web 2.0

A very short report from Sci(bzaar)net, one week later.
First of all, thanks to Gian for this opportunity offered me. Participating in the organization process (even if only online, building the event’s website) and at the event was an opportunity to learn a lot about how we can make room for an open dialogue between very [...]

Tags: Crowdfunding, Design Research, Institutions, Italy, Knowledge, Open Culture, Science, Technology, Web 2.0

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Tags: Design, Open P2P Communities, University, Web 2.0

Planeta Web 2.0

Cobo Romaní, Cristóbal; Pardo Kuklinski, Hugo. 2007. Planeta Web 2.0. Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food. Grup de Recerca d’Interaccions Digitals, Universitat de Vic. Flacso México. Barcelona / México DF.
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http://www.planetaweb2.net/

The first book about Web 2.0 I suggested to you was composed of three different perspectives, while this one is more organic and [...]

Tags: Spain, Web 2.0

Design Management Fourm 2006

Another proof that Open Peer-to-Peer dynamics are spreading in Design comes from the Design Management Forum 2007, 9-10 November, Cologne. This event is about design as process and tool (and therefore not results) for better business, and this year the focus is on Communities, Co-Creation, Web 2.0, Social Networks.

Small, medium-sized and large [...]

Tags: Co-Creation, Design Management, Social Network, Web 2.0

Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

I’d like to suggest you to watch this presentation, a very comprehensive one about Web 2.0, developed by Ed Yourdon and published under GFDL.
You can access the presentation as a pdf file (9,54 Mb, in English), in Google Docs or in Scribd (but yo would loose al the links, so [...]

Tags: Web 2.0

This is the second part of the notes taken reading this book (the first part was in the previous post).
Simplifying maybe too much the cases, the objectives of the organizations can be put at least one of these three great scopes: to offer a service, to get economic revenues and to survive. In order to [...]

Tags: Economy, Web 2.0