CC and Commons

I had been to the CC Korea Conference 2008. Prof. Lessig delivered his keynote somewhat slowly, maybe considering the translator and Korean audience. The sessions in business & art track were quite impressive in general. Among them, followings were the best messages for me.

• CC mixer Korea - freely remix musics
• loftwork - CCL for designers can make money, from Japan
  
• Jon Phillips - Share or Die.
• Project Randomwalks - Sharing the process and moment of creation

LIFT Asia '08

The Date was settled according to Laurent Haug's blog.
It will be held on 4 and 5 September this year.

I guess the event will be held either at Jeju or Seoul. Last September Jeju was mentioned as the promising place for the event. Nevertheless, considering the accessibility there especially for people from outside Korea, Seoul seems more reasonable.

Just update your calendar for this event. I believe it's a must.

More information on LIFT,

• http://www.liftconference.com/about-lift

CC Korea Conference(K)

Creative Commons가 탄생한 지 꽤 오랜시간이 되었고, 이제는 기업쪽에서도 조금씩 그 개념을 이해하기 시작한 것 같다. 다만, 현대 기업의 속성을 고려해 볼 때 Commons라는 자기부정적인 개념에 대한 정확한 이해와 이에 대한 입장 정리 없이 단편적으로 이러한 움직임을 어떻게 (영리적으로) 활용할 것인지에 고민하고 움직이는 수준이라고 볼 수 있을 것 같다.

두 번째인가 세 번째로 서울을 찾는 것 같은 Lessig의 Keynote가 무척 기대되지만,
아쉽게도 업무의 굴레가 너무 강한 날이라서 참석이 어려울 듯 하다....

David Pogue on iphone

iphone fever.

Despite some suspicious outlooks on the success of iphone, the general public seem crazy about this gadget. Yeah, I can imagine that for it's simply an apple.

pros - powerful OS, great interface(Intuitive GUI, haptic interface, Big screen, ...), great applications, WiFi,
cons - slow EDGE network, AT&T-only, small storage(4G,8G), inexchangable battery,

myfirstleica

David Kelly on Design Innovation

These days, UX(User Experience) is becoming more important than ever in every aspects of people's daily lives where overwhelming informations and indistinguishable options are at their hands. As modernism said, sometimes 'less is more' or 'less is better'.

David Kelly, the founder of IDEO, delivers his thoughts on products design from user's perspective. This video was taken in 2002 and it was published recently on TED talks website.

This talk features the story on Prada's first Epicenter(SoHo, New York, Rem Koolhass) and Science museum in London and other interesting projects.

Enjoy.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Origin

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates 
Originally uploaded by Joi 

LEGO enters MMO gaming world

LEGO, all time favorite toy of my childhood, seems to be pioneering its own future arenas with very well-made strategies.

LEGO Factory showed how to smartly utilize and collaborate with the passion of its crowds. Mindstorm showed how to expand the user range by age and how to digg the next huge item, robotics. Microsoft is also trying to preoccupy the robotics platform as they did for PC by Windows. But, the situation around MS seems somewhat unfavorable compared to that of 80s. Most of all, the users are well experienced the MS empire for the last two decades, so they would not easily surrender to MS's ambition.

According to Kotaku, LEGO is entering MMO world partnering with NetDevil.
Here's the full story -

Lego MMO Revealed

"As children around the world continue to spend more time online we are developing new and engaging ways for them to interact with our brand," said Lisbeth Valther Pallesen, Executive Vice President, Community, Education and Direct Division LEGO Group. "The LEGO brand represents construction, creativity and problem solving -- values that compliment the MMOG market. By merging the online world of social interaction with physical play, the LEGO brand is providing new experiences for children, as well as fans. NetDevil's technological capability, openness to work with a large community, and their enthusiasm for the LEGO brand made them a natural partner."

"Playing with LEGO bricks and developing online worlds are both creative activities. To bring them together is deeply professionally satisfying and we look forward to working with the LEGO team," said Scott Brown, President of NetDevil.

Frank Gehry collection

Frank Gehry collection
Originally uploaded by dirby5.

Rem Koolhaas collection

Rem Koolhaas collection 
Originally uploaded by dirby5 .