We have been looking at the Transmediale/CTM festival that will happen in Berlin the first week of February. Lots going on there in terms of art, Tech, Business, and Science, plus lots of dialog about open source and sharing. Open source, sharing, collaboration, remix culture and the future modality of business are huge topics on my radar right now. I don’t claim to have an immense understanding but they seem to be on my radar nonetheless. I’m not sure if I had noted this earlier, however someone had published his thoughts on augmented reality browsers having some development hurdles specifically because of a lack of sharing between companies. He pointed to the fact that there were only several key players in the development of AR Browsers and that only one seemed to have the best chance in progressing as it made its code available as open source allowing other developers to design apps and other technologies around this code. Over all this person saw landscape benefiting greatly if all the heads came together to lay down some common foundations and standards so that a greater progress could be made in this field. Similar sentiments have been echoed by web standards advocates that site the ability to be more productive in perfecting a product rather than coding against several very different browsers simply because some companies see proprietary as a more controllable field to play in.
Open source or not I am fairly excited to check it all out. Some of the people who are up for awards at this festival have had some pretty fun and interesting projects. Seppukoo.com is one, a second interesting idea is from the creators of Wikapedia Art:
“Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the 'invisible authors and authorities' of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet, as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability, accuracy and vandalism.”
You should wikipedia Wikipedia art.
There are other project up for awards, check them out here:
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Internet eggheads should definitely check out the open-web-awards as one of the choices that YOU may vote for is a social media/microblog concept that uses “finger!” J
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