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OK, it may be a bit early to call it a bandwagon, but Intel and Asus are dipping their toe in the social production public swimming pool with the launch of WePC.com.  Much like the Mazda3 facebook social production experiment, the WePC effort is all text based.  I’m still waiting for someone (anyone) to do [...]

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I’ve done a few posts and saved a lot of things to del.icio.us over the past few months about the output side of social production.  Everthing from small contract manufacturers that will make product in very small runs based on digital models to desktop 3D printers that create your product right in the comfort of [...]

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As I somewhat expected, my rate of posting has gone way down here in the last month.  Two factors have contributed: The launch of the corporate blog and my contributions there.  It’s not that I have nothing left to say to post here, it’s just that I have only so much time to say it [...]

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.!. The Institute For The Future has outdone itself again and put together a killer visual map that ties together all of the major trends that are coming together to shape the future of the stuff we all use: An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the [...]

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Well it seems that making a virtual appearance at a user event is the cool thing to do this year, where as last year it was decidedly passe.  At least according to Dassault Systems CEO Bernard Charles at last year’s Payback download lost stallions the journey home dvdrip Gone with the Wind the movie COE [...]

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.!. Franco starts off an interesting discussion on the Novedge blog with his views why the marketing teams may have gotten ahead of themselves a bit in the positioning of synchronous technology as a hybrid system that lets users work in both parametric and direct editing modes on the same model. I did post a [...]

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.!. On the heels of the article this morning from MCS, I found this rather lengthy article from ConnectPress on Joel’s blog.  It may be a stretch to call Connect Press traditional media (hence the quotes in the title), but they are definitely well established and operate in a model more similar to a magazine [...]

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This in my inbox this morning from Google alerts: Siemens PLM synchronous technology set to speed complex modelling 100-fold – Manufacturing Computer Solutions news article It’s a good summary of the press conference and materials we released on the day of the event with some thoughtful analysis and comparison to what has come before it. [...]

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The chatter in the blogosphere continues to roll from the announcement we made last week on Synchronous Technology.  This time Deelip got a few choice comments from the CEO of Alibre: Deelip Menezes: Alibre Reacts to Synchonous Technology transporter 3 divx movie online broken arrow movie I agree completely: hybrid systems are the way that [...]

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.!. In a sign that a JV of Siemens is getting on to the open innovation / crowdsourced wave, I saw this today from the Mass Customization and Open Innovation blog: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Innovation Contest Looks to be something in line with Salesforce.com’s ideaexchange and Dell’s Ideastorm.  Participants can submit ideas and vote on [...]

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