In the last days we exchanged some internal email about Google Chrome OS: we found some similarities with the basic ideas of itsme, and some radical differences. I'll try to summarize the discussion for your benefit, so you can tell us what you think about it.
A few highlights (from google chrome OS presentation) to start with:
the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web;
the software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel;
it is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to...
Yesterday we made our debut in germany at EUD'09, with Giorgio's talk. The talk illustrated the main features of itsme(from a design and technology viewpoint), explaining how the roots of itsme workstation are grounded in the CSCW research, and the many interaction and collaboration possibilities itsme offers to interested groups and users. The audience was mostly composed of computer scientists, academics who do their research paying great attention to users. The talk was followed by a series of questions, mostly the ones that follows us everywhere: why are we planning to have a specific hardware, and not only developing software,...
Our technical workshop has been extremely fruitful. Before last Wednesday we had a clear vision of the Itsme interface and we had ideas on the role of each element of the GUI, also with respect to the contents to be managed... but we had very few things on paper on how to implement and to code those ideas. As you've read in a previous post by Nikhil that the tech team settled on the upper floor with plenty of post-its and markers, and now let me tell you what we did.
Day 1: We started from the definition of the logical...
They have locked themselves in the upper floor of Itsme loft, stay there from morning till evening, and all we get to hear are heavy discussions(hard to decipher what’s being discussed), all we get to see are post-its (in bulks) and some lines and blocks that look like flowcharts.
What's this all about ?
From left to right Vincenzo Di Massa (From Siena Uni), Roberto "Madbob" Guido (check lobotomy project), Lorenzo, Alessandro, Fabio and Michele (Sabayon guys), Giovanni and finally Marco who is probably on the other side of the lens.
I am told that they have a three-day intense workshop...
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This week we upgraded our website. This makes us a step closer to the new interactive website, which has been delayed for a bit (due this march). I thought I should inform you about the changes that we have made as of now.
We named our blog “Itsme conversations”. As the name suggests, we would like to interact a lot more with you, listen to your needs, desires and involve you in making some key design and strategic choices.
Introduced 4(as of now) different categories, namely Project updates, People, Events and Open Innovation.
Added a side bar to the blog. The...
