How to build the Open Mesh book available on Blurb
OK without any further ado - I am proud to present the first dead tree version of my treatise “How to build the Open Mesh”.
Think Computer Lib meets a pep rally in the valley of optimism and ideals.
The constituents for this book are practitioners, who are building systems and marketeers who have to explain it.
Here are a few of my favorite lines from the book…….
The open mesh is the on-line world of interconnected dynamic data sources (such as social media services or ongoing conversations) with static published content or media endpoints (such as a blog or media uploads) intertwined between BigCo platforms and small independent applications and services.
When you see something that’s common, that’s what should be a standard
and of course there’s also:
Open is the new Black
and this:
Act pragmatic, but dream like a visionary
It’s available on Blurb for €59 euros.
We’ll have a wiki for every section up at: http://BuildtheOpenMesh.com - but that’s not there - yet.
I got in some last minute photos from the Portable Contacts hackathon at SixApart.
The first 15 pages are previewed - here’s what two of them look like.



