"For MIT's 2008 Campus Preview Weekend, hackers placed boxes with clear fronts, chainsaws, and the text 'In Case of Zombie Attack, Break Glass' on the front in the lobbies of MIT's buildings 16 and 46."
- Tyson Key
from Bookmarklet
Thats great. Love these MIT hacks. The mario ones last year (I think it was) were awesome.
- Rob Brammeld
This is full of awesmesauce. Kudos to MIT.
- Roberto Bonini
"CloudKit provides RESTful JSON storage with optional OpenID and OAuth support, including OAuth Discovery. Stored entities are versioned. Services manage their own storage and do not require schema updates when models change. CloudKit is Rack middleware and as such can be used on its own or alongside other Rack-based applications or middleware components such as Rails, Merb or Sinatra."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
Building on his pioneering work on the management of technology and innovation in his first book, Managing the Flow of Technology, Thomas J. Allen of MIT has joined with award-winning German architect Gunter Henn of HENN Architekten to produce a book that explores the combined use of two management tools to make the innovation process most effective: organizational structure and physical space. They present research demonstrating how organizational structure and physical space each affect communication among people?in this case, engineers, scientists, and others in technical organizations?and they illustrate how organizations can transform both to increase the transfer of technical knowledge and maximize the ?communication for inspiration? that is central to the innovation process.
- Martin Koser
Is the concept of "space" limited to physical? Does the book address "virtual space" at all?
- Mark Masterson
from twhirl
Mark, I don't know but I guess this is dealing with physical space mainly. Like you I am also interested in virtual work environments, the book seems like a good read still
- Martin Koser
of course, the belief that "the customer is the ultimate regulator" and that we'll dictate the market is fanciful at best. The success AOL had proves many people will simply take what they're given regardless of how shite that service is.
- alphaxion
Interesting. This overlaps with some of the things I was talking about here: http://www.jroller.com/MasterM..., particularly in the discussion in the comments. For whatever reason, Google has been very successful at keeping below the radar as it works on these things in Europe. Remarkable.
- Mark Masterson
from twhirl
there's a lot going on in the EU wirh regards the net and how they're trying to stop it from being the uncensored bliss it currently is ;)
- alphaxion
Sure. I just find Google'S quite secretive role to be a particularly interesting element of that.
- Mark Masterson
from twhirl
oh I agree.. I found the news of Google trying for wireless spectrum to be very creepy at the time. Seems I was justified in that reaction.
- alphaxion