http://openserver.cccb.org/bck/

The Bank of Common Knowledge is an open sourcei model of knowledge transfer set up by Platoniq

The Bank of Common Knowledge is a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution, involving new roles for producers and receivers, experts and amateurs, teachers and students, as well as new relationships between the production of image, text, and audio material and their subsequent diffusion in the public space.

www.davidmuth.net

Another interesting artist doing interesting things with computers

http://www.andfinally.org

Access Space commissioned Anachron-Gen to present a vast online text which acts as a corridor of a thousand doors; hyperlinks to short films, photos, found information and related websites, all fall-out from a difficult collaborative process.  Physical fragments of the text, other objects and images interrupt Access Space, negotiating the funding of the building as a laboratory for creativity whilst creating an Aladdin's cave for the easily distracted.

As part of Lovebytes.

Nic

You are probably all already familiar with these social networkingi sites but if not here is a quick list of those in addition to the likes of myspace, flickr, youtube and digi_club.

They are not all UK friendly but just shows how people are networking on the web and ideas that are driving social networking projects:

Yelp
http://www.yelp.com
Yelp is an internet company based in San Francisco, CA. Yelp hosts a website database of useri reviews, mainly of restaurants and stores, but also of medical ...

Dodgeball
http://www.dodgeball.com/
Mobile Social Software

Twitter
http://www.twitter.com
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in October 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.

MeetUp
http://www.meetup.com/
Helps groups of people with shared interests plan events and form offline clubs in local communities around the world.

43things
http://www.43things.com/
43 Things or 43things.com is a social networking site that is built on the principles of taggingi, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Friendster and Orkut). Users create accounts and then list a number of goals or hopes; these goals are parsed by a lexer and connected to other people's goals that are constructed with similar words or ideas.

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing networki of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections t

Isolatr

And go to ....

MediaShed, bourne out of GYOML,

http://mediashed.org/?q=about

The MediaShed is the first "free-media" space to open in the east of England. It's a place where members can come hang out, learn, propose some training, create and propose new projects using free-media or show things they have made on one of our screening nights. The MediaShed is designed to be as open and accessible as possible, welcoming all.

Particularly of interest is this project Video Sniffen

Click here to watch the commercial

Video Sniffin’

Everywhere we go today CCTV cameras are watching us. They have become so common that we ignore their presence. Who is watching us? Why? What do the cameras see? How is this information interpreted? The MediaShed decided to answer some of these questions with some direct action. By taking over the CCTV networks the technology can be freed from its usual applications of security. Instead of a process of control, there can be a process of freedom.

Some links on Open Hardware from Wookey of the Balloonboard Project
An open hardware project
http://balloonboard.org/

OpenCores.org

LART
http://www.lart.com/

http://www.simputer.org/

And for those of you who might feel we spend alot of money on getting to these events.
Please see the small but perfectly formed room at SleeperZ http://www.sleeperz.com/  that Brigit found me right by the station.

Apparently we found the cheapest and smallest accomodation in Cambridge!
This picture was taken standing back in the far corner of the room.
You will be pleased to know i didnt have to share the bunk with anyone!

Enter_unknown Territories

http://www.enternet.org.uk/enternet/unknownterritories/home.acds?context=2659795

4 domes on the very public park 'Parkers Piece' housed much of the presented work at the enter festival last week.

The domes were placed in a central park in town with a view to being highly prominent to the general public.

Open-Source Museum Opens in Second Life
http://www.3pointd.com/20070427/open-source-museum-opens-in-second-life

Posted Friday, April 27th, 2007, at 10:32 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Tags: art, culture, design, Second Life

A group of students from Brown University have launched an open- source museum in the virtuali world of Second Life. Known as OSMOSA, the Open-Source Museum of Open-Source Art, the museum is located »in Second Life’s Eson region« and features a mess of artworks that anyone can copy, modify, alter or otherwise contribute to. The museum itself is open to alteration as well, which is a fantastic idea. The modding got under way at the opening party Tuesday night: an already- altered image of Manet’s Olympia (with space helmets added to make it more excellent) came out the other end of the night with some interesting additions and adjustments...