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2013年5月3日金曜日

Get Ready for the 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop

MAKE | Get Ready for the 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop

5/14〜15の二日間、Hardware Innovation Workshop というイベントが開催される。

Presented by GE, the Hardware Innovation Workshop will be held at the College of San Mateo and is designed for makers in business trying to figure out how to navigate the thriving maker ecosystem–from fundraising to strategic partners to manufacturing options.

多数のメーカーズによるプロトタイプピッチや、この界隈の著名による講演などがあるらしい。実際、なかなかの顔ぶれが揃っている。

Chris Anderson, founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, DIY Drones
Kai Backman, co-founder, Airstone Labs
Massimo Banzi, co-founder, Arduino
Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk
Kate Drane, Indiegogo
Brook Drumm, founder and CEO, Printrbot
Ted Hall, founder and CEO ShopBot Tools
Bunnie Huang, co-founder, Chumby
Eric Jennings & Sally Carson, co-founders, Pinoccio
Zach Kaplan, founder and CEO, Inventables
Ben Kaufman, founder and CEO, Quirky
Ryan Kottenstett, principal, Khosla Ventures
Zach Smith, program director, HAXLR8R
Robert Stephens, founder, Geek Squad
Trae Vassallo, general partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Peter Weijmarshausen, co-founder and CEO, Shapeways

その他、詳しくはこちら。行ってみたいが、CAか...

vCard Ontology W3C First Public Working Draft 2 May 2013

vCard Ontology

The document describes a mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to RDF/OWL. The goal is to promote the use of vCard for the description of people and organisations utilising semantic web techniques and allowing compatibility with traditional vCard implementations.

vCardをRDF/OWLへ。HTML5やCSS3周辺ではかつてほどセマンティックウェブが目立たないが、こういう取り組みも進んでいる。

Respect Your Fan's Intelligence, Get A Customer For Life

Respect Your Fan's Intelligence, Get A Customer For Life | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

littleBits の Founder、Ayah Bdeir 氏のインタビュー。

“We’re not trying to ultimately make a sale,” says Bdeir. “The relationship we would like you to have with littleBits starts when you have the product. It doesn’t end when you buy the product.”

Toy Fair 2013 では Mattel や Lego 、Hasbro など錚々たる大メーカーが晴れ晴れしく製品を披露する中にあって、“Best of Toy Fair 2012”を受賞した。

Hardware startups

Hardware startups - Chris Dixon: "Defensibility"

Andreessen Horowitz（VC）のChris Dixonが、ハードウェアスタートアップが留意すべきことを挙げる。

Manufacturing：HWの製造にあたっては経験がモノを言う
Defensibility：価格競争に巻き込まれないためのネットワーク外部性
Planning：製品は市場にでてからは取り返しがつかないので計画的に
B2C vs B2B：B2Bは競争を避けやすく時として有利

The $12 Gongkai Phone

The $12 Gongkai Phone « bunnie's blog

深センの明通数碼城で購入したという、12ドル携帯電話の分解記事。いくらなんでも驚異的な価格。

Welcome to the Galapagos of Chinese “open” source. I call it “gongkai” (公开). Gongkai is the transliteration of “open” as applied to “open source”. I feel it deserves a term of its own, as the phenomenon has grown beyond the so-called “shanzhai” (山寨) and is becoming a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem of its own.

部品の安さもあるが、中国らしいオープンソースエコシステムも。