P2P By Design

My "Rules of the Road" for Building Socially Designed Marketing Efforts

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:48:00 -0500

Your value is defined by the opportunities you make possible for others. Anything that can be shared...

Google Search Auto Correct Model: Collaborative Filtering

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:38:52 -0500

This is one of my favorite examples of socially designed products. To understand it, it helps to...

Building the Open Source Economy one proof point at a time

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:24:21 -0500

Building the Open Source Economy one proof point at a time

The Cornish Steam Engine and Open Source Collaboration

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:06:05 -0500

One of the very early demonstrations of the power of the open collaborative model was the...

"Two main agents of transformation guide [the p2p revolution]. One is the emergence of community..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:41:00 -0500

“Two main agents of transformation guide [the p2p revolution]. One is the emergence of...

"Then, as we started collecting examples of the urban interventions you see in this issue, and will..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:36:00 -0500

“Then, as we started collecting examples of the urban interventions you see in this issue, and...

"One challenge for organizations will be getting people to realize that what they actually know, as..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:34:32 -0500

““One challenge for organizations will be getting people to realize that what they...

"I asked [Kevin Doohan, former Head of Digital Marketing at Red Bull] about what Red Bull does for..."

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:21:00 -0400

“I asked [Kevin Doohan, former Head of Digital Marketing at Red Bull] about what Red Bull does...

Kickstarter For Local Businesses

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:45:07 -0400

From Smartplanet.com: Usually when you hear talk about investing in the local economy...

Crowdfunded Skyscraper in Columbia

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:43:14 -0400

From Wired Magazine: “From the pyramids to modern skyscrapers in the Middle East, the world’s...

Open-Space Technology

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:14:40 -0400

Open Space Technology (OST) is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style...

Peer to peer is essentially a tool or ‘model’, but...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:22:26 -0400

Peer to peer is essentially a tool or ‘model’, but whether it can be used for emancipatory purposes depends on a integrated set of conditions. The P2P Foundation has brought together a community of researchers and activists interested in using peer to peer paradigms in every area of social life, and as a pluralist network, combines many different frameworks of understanding, both post-liberal and post-socialist. In this seminar, we will attempt to describe the emergence of p2p models in various domains, look at their commonalities, and see how they can be integrated in a strategy for social change, that creates the conditions for a sustainable and ‘just’ society. Different scenarios will be presented, from the full integration of p2p in a market economy, via hybrid modes, via the hypothesis of a political economy where peer to peer would be the core logic of value creation.

In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:10:53 -0400

In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world

Surprisingly, the automotive industry is taking to P2P...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:16:00 -0400

Surprisingly, the automotive industry is taking to P2P architectures of cooperation more readily than others. BMW, Peugeot, and Daimler are all developing P2P renting programs for their fleets. The U.S. government recently signed a contract with the automotive enthusiast community responsible for wiki-producing the Rally Fighter to do the same for the production of military combat vehicles. And then there is the OScar project, which uses open source protocols in the collective building of the first open-source car. Inline with OS protocols, you can download the blueprints for the car—which I don’t think you can do with the Rally Fighter. Anyway, now Fiat is getting into the P2P game with Mio, the first crowdsourced car from an automotive company. Between January and February of 2010, Fiat began the construction of the Fiat Mio, seeking to take these ideas of the paper. This whole process is being documented and shown on the web through the Making Of Fiat Mio blog. In the blog, people also were able take part in many decisions like car colors and doors configuration. They’ve also produced 4 small documentaries on the idea and progress of the car. The first is post above. Here are the second, third, and fourth.

Again, this just goes to show that anything that can be social will be social. The internet eats everything. Nothing is immune to the decentralizing and distribution effects of networks.

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:10:00 -0400

““The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will...

The MTA's counterintuitive move to decrease subway trash.

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:39:28 -0400

Every so often, city officials take a leap of faith into commoning: Curatiba and NYC turning...

A Organization You Should Know: Enspiral

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:16 -0400

If you haven’t heard of Enspiral, it’s a pretty remarkable case study in collective...

Which is More Valuable to Chase? Critical Mass or Network Effects?

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:27:32 -0400

Nice article from Dalton Caldwell’s post on critical mass vs network effects. In it, he talks...

"As the transmission of knowledge accelerates, as more possibilities are manufactured, the unabated..."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:30:00 -0400

““As the transmission of knowledge accelerates, as more possibilities are manufactured,...

Google Autocorrect: Smart Example of Collaborative Filtering

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:23:03 -0400

This is one of my favorite examples collaborative filtering. It comes from Google. To understand...