After some months of designing and prototyping, I am so happy to annouce you that the openp2pdesign.org store page on Lulu.com is now finally open at http://lulu.com/openp2pdesign.
You will find there all the print version of the books published within the openp2pdesign.org project.
The first book you can already find there is the print version of openp2pdesign.org_1.1, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Web 2.0

Max Barret,
Social Circles

Everyone
A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing
the 5 different sets of social databases I use:
Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends,
Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger
contacts and those in my mobile phonebook.
A total of 259 people.

via | manystuff.org

Tags: Community, Graphic Design, Maps, Social Network, Web 2.0

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

Menichinelli_19-11-07.pdf

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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.
Versión 0.1
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