Talking Open P2P Design, FabLabs and Makers with Massimo Menichinelli

Massimo Menichinelli is a designer who researches and develops collaborative projects and design methodologies since 2005. He founded the openp2pdesign.org project, for researching about designing open, complex and collaborative projects, processes and systems. He has given talks, lectures and hosted workshops in Italy, Spain, Finland, South Korea, Singapore.

After being invited as a keynote speaker at the Aalto University – School of Art and Design in Helsinki, he is now a doctoral candidate at the Media Lab Helsinki to further investigate these issues.

“Humanizing” in the Value age

I’ve been asked to write a guest post on Estrogeni’s Blog, a corporate blog of a communication and marketing agency active in Italy. I’ll never thank enough them since this led me to focus on some interesting concept that I’ll likely follow up on my blog in thecoming months. You can read the post in english on my blog or, if you prefer, read it in Italian on Estrogeni’s blog, you’ll find the link in the post.

Two words about Twitter

Are you willing to stay out the greatest world buzz revolution?

Supporting The Case Against Data Lock-in

A few days ago the Data Liberation Front, a team created by Google apparently to lower lock-in on data that its services generate on  users , has publicly clarified its mission (note: the DLF has been started in 2007, made

The society of objects

How social do you expect the objects will be one day? Would you allow machines and software to interact with you in a social manner?

Interviewing Richard Stallman: Freedom in the time of SaaS

Richard Stallman is one of the most revolutionary thinkers and activists of the twentieth century. Thanks to him we have things like GNU and free software movement. Meedabyte had the opportunity to publish an interview with him about the threats to personal freedom deriving from using what is commonly identified as SaaS.

All of us use SaaS every day but the contours of this phenomenon, which has so many obscure points for users, are rarely clear.

Emerges a clear picture: on one hand users, citizens, taxpayers, on the other huge economic interests. In the middle, the need for individuals to mobilize and be the first lawyers of their own Freedom.

Richard Stallman è uno dei pensatori più rivoluzionari e gli attivisti del ventesimo secolo.A lui dobbiamo cose come GNU e del movimento del software libero. Meedabyte avuto l’opportunità di pubblicare un’intervista con lui riguardo le minacce alla libertà personale derivanti dal Software as a Service.

Tutti noi usiamo SaaS ogni giorno, ma i contorni di questo fenomeno, che ha così tanti punti oscuri per gli utenti, raramente sono chiari.

Ne emerge un quadro chiaro: da un lato gli utenti, cittadini, contribuenti, dall’altro enormi interessi economici. Nel mezzo, la necessità per gli individui di mobilitarsi e di essere i primi gli avvocati della propria libertà.

A retrogamer view on Rich Internet Applications and browser based gaming – Il punto di vista di un retrogamer sulle RIA e il browser based gaming

What’s the most important thing to online gaming innovation at today? is technology? openness? Freedom?
Flash vs html5 will be a neverending story. To spend a word on that, Meedabyte invited KesieV Norimaki, firstly as the creator of Akihabara, an opensourced javascript framework for cross-browser cross-device flash-less videogames, secondly, as a greatly creative person with something original to say.