Google OpenSocial: Open

In short, some early hour technology news for Friday:

The Google OpenSocial site is now live here.

The OpenSocial team has a blog here.

Plaxo has support available here for OpenSocial.

Ning is working to get the beta available to its network tonite.

Orkut, Plaxo, and Ning are first with OpenSocial support.

Music for Fri: Rilo Kiley / Silver Lining

Cameron Sinclair = Hawte

“I believe there’s no such thing as utopia. All problems are local, all solutions are local.”

Eat your own clinic: Open-source architecture to house the world. A passionate man + articulate, feasible ideas. Showing that design does not exist in a vacuum; it both influences and is influenced by our ever-changing environment. My friends and I are some-time fans.

Cameron Sinclair demonstrates that the ideals of design can inspire innovation, and in turn, innovation can take shape to conform to designing for sustainable living. Architecture For Humanity, now in San Francisco, is the brainchild of Sinclair, winner of the TED 2006 prize and regular contributer to Worldchanging, a sustainability blog.

I love the TED acceptance speech vid clip below, but it is being rather rebellious, so I’ve included the actual link here.

Clip description: Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. The motto of his group, Architecture for Humanity, is “Design like you give a damn.” Using a litany of striking examples, he shows how AFH has helped find creative solutions to humanitarian crises all over the globe.

Sinclair then outlines his TED Prize wish: to create a global open-source network that will let architects and communities share and build designs to house the world. Click here to see the results of his TED Prize wish.

Wired Magazine, 2006 Rave Award
Living Scotsman, Design on the front line