On July 14th, 2009, Giorgos Cheliotis, assistant professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and a visitor researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has tried to answer the question how large and free are the Commons? during a talk called Mapping the Global Commons: A quantitative perspective on free cultural practice. Read more »

MediaWiki developers are working on integrating OpenStreetMap (Osm) (la versione libera di Google Maps) with Wikipedia and all other their projects. A fundamental step for development of both communities, that can free users from dependency from proprietary geodata, now almost an exclusive property of TeleAtlas. We hope that public administrations will become sensible and that will give their data to the free platform. Otherwise lets ask for a law that will oblige them to release geodata in the public domain. Read more »

We have designed the information architecture and the interface of an online community on collaborative cartography, that permits to young people from all Europe to edit contents and organize them geographically on interactive maps.

The project has been ideated by Lunaria and funded with support from the European Commission (Youth in action program). Read more »

On W3C’s XForms mailing list, Jan-Felix Schwarz has announced the Oryx XForms Editor, a web-based tool for creating XForms. You can visually edit forms, export and import them in XForms format. The editor runs in your web browser (Firefox), zero software installation required. The editor is still in an early stage and is currently available for testing and feedback. Read more »

Add to your website an Apple like search field, with rounded borders, shadows, the lens and the reset button. This solution, specific for Wordpress, is based on xhtml strict + css accessible codes, compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Internet Explorer 7 and 6. You can customize graphics editing the images and localize the widget in infinite languages, thanks to php-gettext support. With few changes to the code you can use it in your non-Wordpress-based website. Read more »

We are working on Sinapsi WP, a social/semantic evolution of WordPress content management system. Read more »