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liveblogging DIY Media
March 14, 2006
Just some notes:
Crumlish Panel Moderator
Torrone
Zee
Fried
Shaw
Fried says electronics musicians are kind of like the Ham radio geeks of our time. Modifications are the step before contributions. If you can't commune with the synthesizer, you don't want to share. Three things that make people want to contribute to a project:
- Value: I hacked something up because it was missing
- Ego: I wanted to show off my skills, get positive feedback
- I like playing with this toy, experimentation & creativity
How to get your customers to do really cool stuff for you:
- Make it possible
- Be humble
- be respectful
- be thankful
- be supportive
- mingle with the natives
Shaw
AOL is opening up the AIM platform to allow for more flexibility with filesharing.
Also opening up the mapquest api's
Zee & Torrone
Torrone: They have modified a roomba, and it's chasing people around the room. You take a butter knife and pop a little port off of the side, and Make.com has how-tos to modify them. You can use your phone or your computer to control them.
Smart businesses will assume that the consumers will be the producers.
Zee: talks about crafts and knitting.
Yarn Harlot: Knitting Olympics
pinkofperfection.com covered the knitting olympics.
Torrone says "You don't want to piss off knitters."
hobbyprincess.com
someone from the audience asks why we are doing this
zee answers we have a need to make something with our hands.
we used to have more electronic equipment that we were able to fiddle with, and now we don't have those options.
At this point, I got caught up in an aim conversation and stopped paying note-taking levels of attention.
Torrone is veering back onto the subject of implanting play into our regular day-to-day things. Social hardware.
It's totally legal to modify hardware.
this is a really engaging group. I'm going to add some links to this later.
Someone wants to talk about the controversy of opening the AIM protocol.
Shaw says you can't resell & you can't have more than 50,000 logins a day or 2 million logins a month. You can use all of the functionality that is there, but you are limited in quantity of messages.
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