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Second "Open Feedback" Title Now Online

By Andrew Savikas
September 30, 2009

Over on the O'Reilly Labs blog, Keith Fahlgren talks about the latest title to go live in our Open Feedback Publishing System, which gives authors and readers a way to...

Adobe Announces "Flash Platform Services"

By Andrew Trice
September 22, 2009

Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social.

Four short links: 17 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 16, 2009

How Twitter Works in Theory (Kevin Marks) -- very nice summary about the conceptual properties of Twitter that let it work. Both Google and Twitter have little boxes for you to type into, but on Google you're looking for information, and expecting a machine response, whereas on Twitter you're declaring an emotion and expecting a human response. This is...

Four short links: 3 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 3, 2009

Enabling Massively Parallel Mathematics Collaboration -- Jon Udell writes about Mike Adams whose WordPress plugin to grok LaTeX formatting of math has enabled a new scale of mathematics collaboration. 2845 Ways to Spin The Risk -- introduction to the ways in which our perception of risk (and numbers in general) can be distorted by how it is presented. (via...

Getting started with Adobe Stratus

0 July 28, 2009

Peer to Peer (P2P) applications have been around for quite some time now. Adobe Stratus, a recently released service from Adobe in combination with Flash Player 10 provides developers all there is needed to create P2P applications today. In this article, we will cover the following

Building a Simple Chat App With Adobe Flash Collaboration Services

By Andrew Trice
June 26, 2009

In this post, we will focus on getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Services (formerly Cocomo). If you've heard of this, but aren't really sure what it is, AFCS is a hosted service provided by Adobe which enables real-time collaboration within your own Flex applications.

Geeks Invade Government With Audacious Goals

By Mark Drapeau
May 27, 2009

Guest blogger Mark Drapeau is the Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Sept 2009 and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010, both in Washington, DC. He holds the title of Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University, a professional military educational school run by the Joint Chiefs...

Crabgrass: free software collaboration for distributed groups

By Andy Oram
March 6, 2009

I've been waiting for Crabgrass for years. I want to set up tasks and keep track of what my mates are doing without struggling with Gantt charts and all those tools for MBAs; looking at the grid of lines on a spreadsheet makes me think of jail. Crabgrass offers all the elements of social networking that are actually useful.

Stimuluswatch.org; The Falling Cost and Accelerated Speed of Group Action

By Joshua-Michele Ross
February 14, 2009

Stimuluswatch.org is a great example of how easy it is today for people to, as Clay Shirky says, “organize without organizations.” Stimuluswatch.org began after Jerry Brito attended a mayor’s Conference and posted this request: "Let’s help President-Elect Obama do what he is promising. Let’s help him “prioritize” so the projects so that we “get the most bang for the...

Can the Internet Prevent War?

By Timothy M. O'Brien
December 9, 2008

In his Nobel lecture Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio posited that the Internet might have prevented the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War. In this post, I offer a counterargument: the decade we all lived through demonstrated the power of the Internet as a platform for propaganda.

New Project Examines Close Reading and Web Collaboration

By Mac Slocum
October 31, 2008

On Nov. 10, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook will be read and discussed by seven readers in a new experiment that explores "close reading" and the mechanisms of online...

Wikitecture - Radical Collaboration in Architecture

By Joshua-Michele Ross
October 16, 2008

Many of the precepts that began with Open Source (collaboration, shared IP, crowdsourcing etc.) are migrating from software development into a series of ever more surprising disciplines. Today old-school institutions like Proctor and Gamble go outside of their own R&D teams to innovate new products while Best Buy opens APIs to allow outside developers to build on their catalog...