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Roma, 16 giugno: "Creative commons, the future of web 3.0"

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:15:56 +0000

[Da Creative Commons Italia

Lunedì 16 giugno 2008, alle ore 18.00 - Terrazza Reti, via del Plebiscito, 102, quinto piano (continua)

Giuseppe Cerbone, Amministratore delegato Ansa
Pierluigi Dal Pino, Direttore Rapporti Istituzionali Sud Europa Microsoft
Donatella Della Ratta, Special Assistant to the Ceo Creative Commons
Massimo Micucci, Presidente Reti SpA
Marco Pancini, Responsabile Relazioni Istituzionali Google
dialogano su
Creative commons ...the future of web 3.0 - Communities and Sharing economy
L'evento sara' aperto da una videointervista di Sherpatv con Joi Ito, Ceo di Creative Commons e sara' l'occasione per presentare l'iSummit Sapporo 2008
www.creativecommons.org
Creative Commons (CC) è una no profit fondata nel 2001 da Lawrence Lessig, famoso professore di legge di Stanford. Il principio è che la nuova economia digitale si basa sull'abbondanza di informazione, non sulla scarsità dell'ambiente analogico; e sulla cooperazione, sullo sharing, che genera benessere e ricchezza, come fa notare "La ricchezza della rete" di Yochai Benkler, altro sostenitore di Creative Commons. Per scambiare legalmente e far crescere il benessere e la creativita della rete sullo scambio fra gli utenti, Creative Commons fornisce licenze flessibili che cambiano il principio del copyright '"All Rights Reserved" nel piu adatto all'ambiente digitale "Some Rights Reserved."
Numerosi soggetti in tutto il mondo usano oggi le licenze di CC (fra gli altri: la BBC, l'MIT di Boston, e il ministro della cultura brasiliano Gilberto Gil per la sua musica). Joi Ito, attuale CEO di CC (indicato dal World Economic Forum come uno dei 100 leader del domani) ha aperto lo scorso MIp Tv di Cannes con un keynote dedicato alle nuove licenze, testimoniando l'importanza che CC sta assumendo anche in ambiente broadcast.
R.S.V.P. reti@retionline.it - tel. 06675451

Come possiamo migliorare l'usabilità del sito?Adesso ci stiamo lavorando.

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:20:00 +0000

Non so se volete dedicarci qualche secondo. Ora, sappiamo quanto il tempo è prezioso per tutti. Ma stiamo cercando di migliorare l'usabilità del sito. Vi proponiamo di testare l'usabilità del sistema dei commenti e di lasciare un'osservazione. Adesso, vi ringraziamo del tempo dedicatoci e della collaborazione.

| I do not know if you want to dedicate a few seconds. Now, we know how time is precious for everyone. But we are trying to improve the usability of the site. We propose to test the usability of the system of entries and leave a comment. Now, I appreciate the time and collaboration.

Ample Sample 2008

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:57:34 +0000

[From Ample sample]

Enter Ample Sample and create a design idea that will transform carpet samples into a fixture, a personal accessory, or any other product you dream up!

Check out our new categories for students and Tryk samples.

Winning designs will be promoted at NeoCon, in Floor Focus Magazine and available as a free download to forward-thinking designers from around the world.

Amplifier Coat Hook

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:13:44 +0000

[From My Amplifier]

The COAT-HOOK is a product made from champagne corks, ready to be screwed into the wall. It comes in a jewelry box with a plug, an individual label and unique serial number stating event, place and date of collection (e.g. YSL party, Feb 2002, London). On the one hand, the cork is, because of its shape, functionally perfect for hanging a coat/jacket, but also, on the other hand, becomes unique because of its traceable history coming from a particular special moment=party/event).

Additionally, you can send in your own corks from a particular memorable event and have those individually made into boxed and labeled cork-hooks.

CascoLand

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:02:33 +0000

[From Cascoland]

Public Art is an important tool in activating and developing public space. In the kind of Public Art Cascoland promotes, inter-disciplinary artists engage themselves in communities to collaborate with audiences and members of the communities in shaping their public space through dialogue and participation.

The intention is to motivate and mobilize audiences to become an active participant in the process initiated by the artists and in which the eventual artwork is not as much a physical object but a change in perception of public space with the audience.

Through our publications we want to adress an international audience. This kind of project can inform a variety of parties internationally involved with urban planning and the use of public space, ranging from policy-makers, architects and designers, to the users on a street-level.

Longer term objectives include creating awareness about activating public space through Public Art and sharing the experience of being part of an international project and what this requires from individuals and organisations.

Matthias Ries, Batphones

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:10:34 +0000

[From Matthias Ries]

Batphones are designed to increase the hearing capability in frontal situations such as watching TV or listening to a speech in the back rows.
Therfor, the ears are being extended to focus onto the speaker(s) and capture a wider amount of sound waves. Being low-tech, that is consisting of just one piece of injection moulded plastic, Batphones are also low-cost and can be distributed as an advertising gift during a speech or a congress for example.

Batphones can not substitute electrical hearing devices or headphones but are a perfect and cheap alternative for people having slight hearing difficulties in various situations.

Everyone has already experienced the huge difference in hearing after having held ones hands behind the ears. Batphones are adopting this idea and form an innovative yet simple design.

Another inspirational source are the ears of bats, which are due to the bats sonarsystem perfectly shaped for frontal hearing.

SHARE festival

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0000

[From To Share]

The SHARE festival, based in Torino, is an international gathering for digital art and culture. SHARE exhibits electronic artworks, and awards a prize each year for advancing the state of digital art.

Because of recent advances in digital fabrication technology, manufacturing is becoming a digital art and culture enterprise. The exciting advent of 3d printing, rapid prototyping, and rapid manufacturing is of profound importance to SHARE, for it bring the power to create physical objects to the techno-artist’s lab-bench, studio and atelier. It means that digital artists, whose work was once mostly virtual, can create in the actual.

SHARE has chosen the theme “Manufacturing” for its 2008 event for two compelling reasons. First, we want to demonstrate digital manufacturing to our core audience, who are very technically adept people, but not used to the idea that they can create real objects with CAD, fabricators and the Internet. The second reason is that Torino is the World Capital of Design 2008. Torino is a strong manufacturing center. SHARE is very international in its outlook and audience, but in 2008 this Torino festival should and will emphasize the fact that it is from Torino.

Torino is an inventive, creative-class city whose digital-art scene ranks with the major European capitals of digital culture: Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Milano and Linz. However, Torino is the only one of those cities that is also a traditional manufacturing center. We believe that digital manufacturing represents a regional competitive advantage for Torino. We plan to strongly encourage the local digital creatives to explore the exciting possibilities here. As those possibilities become artistic achievements, we plan to curate them.

We therefore plan an exhibit for 2008 which will emphasize the digital manufacturing options available to artists today. Internet-based manufacturing using digital routers, as pioneered by the firm “Ponoko,” is one cheap and simple method, which is attracting much press attention. Still, this represents only a start for the true future of digital manufacturing. Its important that our audience should see the work of sophisticated Torino manufacturing firms such as Provel, whose technical capacities are globally second to none.

We believe that digital manufacturing, by its nature, plays to the industrial strengths of northern Italy: very high design quality, flexibility, closely networked small firms, limited boutique production runs, and centuries of craftsmanship. In order for these potentials to be realized, they will have to be put before the eyes and hands of an avant-garde willing to experiment. As digital cultural curators, we believe that is our role. We look forward to a 2008 event that will be hard to forget and full of promise for the future.

Orbit Weels

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:22:15 +0000

[From New Da Vincis]
Like a cross between a skateboard and inline skates, but with more freedom and simplicity than either, the Orbitwheel is a brand new concept for wheeled sports.

The design is simple: two feet, two wheels... and you're ready to go. The Orbitwheel's concept is basic, but with the wheels whirling around your feet, you are capable of countless tricks and maneuvers that can be as complex and creative as you can come up with.

With the Orbitwheel's minimalistic design, fun and transportation have never been so portable and convenient. The large wheel radius enables you to enjoy the Wheelblazer on a variety of different surfaces. The two thin, light wheels require no folding down or taking apart, making them easy to slip into a backpack or carry in your hand. And when you're ready to get going again, you don't need to fuss with buckles and flaps - just step into the hoops and take off.

Creative Commons: LiveContent 2.0

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:29:32 +0000

[From Creative Commons]

Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD full of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon. LiveContent boots directly from the LiveDVD, making it easy for users to interact with Creative Commons-licensed content and test-drive open source software. The LiveDVD is built upon Fedora 8, a Linux-based operating system, and the disc includes a number of open source software applications like OpenOffice, The Gimp, Inkscape, and Firefox.

The LiveContent project draws CC-licensed multimedia content from a variety of diverse projects aiming to share creativity and culture more openly. Included are photographs from Flickr.com and Wikimedia Commons, music from Jamendo.com and Simuze.nl, videos from Make Magazine, Boing Boing TV and others, books from Manybooks.net, and open educational resources from MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative.

For version 2.0, LiveContent transitions from a LiveCD to a LiveDVD platform, providing more space for open content and software. Beginning with the popular photo-sharing website Flickr.com, LiveContent 2.0 demonstrates a unique content “autocuration” process. This technique manipulates web services provided by Flickr and automatically compiles photos onto the LiveDVD build. With the success of the Flickr autocuration process, Creative Commons aims to push for further standardization of CC content syndication feeds and APIs.

Creative Commons calls for increased community participation in curating open content and developing technologies that spread CC-licensed content. “Creative Commons doesn’t maintain a centralized repository of the work published under the suite of CC licenses,” said Jon Phillips, Business and Community Development Manager at Creative Commons. “But our Content Directories project has been a useful tool for organizations to list their CC-powered projects. It’s important that we develop a standardized process for the community to be able to learn about and reuse open content.”

LiveContent is a product of collaboration across a number of organizations including Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com), Worldlabel.com (http://www.worldlabel.com) and various CC content providers. LiveContent 2.0 is now available for free download at http://spins.fedoraproject.org. A pre-burned disc may be purchased at http://www.on-disk.com.

For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/projects/livecontent

OpenMoko: One More Key

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:53:03 +0000

[from Openmoko]

If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Our first key unlocked the software, unleashing the community to recraft the code. Now, we free the case and share the keys to Industrial Design. Developers who want to re-craft the case are set free.
CAD files for all Neo branded handsets have now been posted.

When you use these files to create something creative, share it back. The files are posted under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license.