arvino’s posterous

Group photo taken on OpenOffice Conference 2008, Beijing.
 
"Document format and platform-of-innovation shall always belong to the people, for the use of the people, for the benefit of the people.
Through that we can preserve the continuous seed of innovation, and contribute our effort towards the betterness and advancement of our greater society as a whole."
 
-arv

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The_Mac_Museum_....zip (1999 KB)

It was told by Alex Patsay that somewhere in Moscow, they had one of the biggest collections of old Mac (and NeXT) hardware and software in the world.
Imagine if people around the world could collect their Apple, Mac, NeXT and iMacs that they no longer use in once place, and arrange it by time, ... then we will perhaps be able to see the fascinating 'history', 'story' and 'evolution' of hardware, software, and computer design -- of one the most iconic icon, in the great innovation history of computing -- across time! :-)

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To the words: "Developers ... developers ...", we answer: "Open ... Open ...".

Fundamental change is required. Crucial format and standard shall belong to community and society, not just to few companies. Innovation capability shall (again) belongs to everybody.

Open system does not necessarily mean open source. Open system reflects on idea of systems that conform to a common global standard (which owned by the people), systems that connect and 'talk' each other (in full conformity to global format and standard which belongs and owned by global society), systems that enables innovation to flourish once more around the globe -- wherever the best ideas born and develop -- without boundary.

It would be beautiful if -- one day -- both aspiration can be combined: DEVELOPERS fully adopting OPEN standard in their 'arsenal'.

The danger of monopolistic-ownership of world-global-standard (by one or few companies) shall be over. No company shall own internet standard, doc format, xls format, office format, bits and bytes -- which increasingly becoming fundamental fabric of our digital living and networked society today -- and even more importantly into the future. These all shall belong to the people. Without such, world's innovation capability will be halted, world's knowledge asset could be seriously threated, and our world's progress as digital living society could be jammed.

Social (and crucial) internet/document/data-interchange standards (HTML, Office Documents, XML, etc) shall belong (back) to the people.

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I love this ad! It makes people glance (and notice them) ahead. Yet at the same time, it also convey simple, punchy, powerful message which effectively do its job.

Throughout history, may be only VW, Apple and Sony ad (in the past) able to do such, in an ad format that is as light, as inspiring, as fun, as punchy, yet as effective as such.
 
The power of "DDB" (Bernbach approach) approach in the 60s seems to still be effectively relevant, until today.
 
ps: click here for more information about DDB and its fascinating approach & history:

http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/98_fall/theory/weirtz/doyle.htm

http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/99_spring/interactive/joohwan/bernbach/ad1.html

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Interactive big-size-banner-ad! I love it so much!

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Never been in history that a campaign is this momentous, inspiring, energetic, emotional and strong. People self-organizingly stand up for what they believe is a hope for a great change, a movement, a chance to contribute a change for a great future. The hope spreads not just in America, but around the globe. Win or loose, Barack Obama probably already winning in sparking the light of hope that now resides in the heart of the people.  -arv

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Get thing done requires people to interact and collaborate. One of the most complex type of 'collaboration' that system designer must solve is 'cascading collaboration'. It goes like this:

Document is being exchanged digitally from one place to another. One person assign and wait for response from his subordinate, before he could act. Each subordinate that is being assigned might assign and wait for response from his/her sub-subordinate, before he/she could act in respond to their superior's request. In many occassion, work & decision process could become so connected, and happened in a 'cascade'.

Great automation and collaboration system shall be able to facilitate that.

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Ikea.zip (240 KB)

Ikea products are simple and easy to understand. Their marketing messages are awesome. These combination make them great brand they had become!

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