At transmediale.10 the transnational open source team FLOSS Manuals led by Adam Hyde (nz) created one of their legendary Book Sprints (Collaborative Futures), producing a complete publication from scratch in only five days. After this testing of the Booki platform they have now been nominated with Booki itself -- an extensive online platform allowing anyone to create books independently and collaboratively.
Evan Roth (us) is another name you might remember from transmediale.10 as well as a diverse range of projects worldwide. Then nominated for the transmediale Award as one of the F.A.T. Lab members, Roth is now nominated with this solo-project---a software allowing graffiti artists to archive, analyse and process their bodily writing gestures.
The Berlin collective Telekommunisten has created a microblogging platform based, at its core, on a protocol from the 1970s. Thimbl intends to provide us with a single, multipoint web hosting service instead of us having to surf between a variety of social networks, email servers, website hosts etc.
The American artist Mark Shepard has created a navigation-app which doesn't only lead us the way to our chosen destination but in fact rouses us from our daily routines---En route we're invited to complete sometimes surprising tasks and thus to explore and experience our urban surroundings in new and astounding ways.
Les Liens Invisibles, an Italian based collective comprised of Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini created the first social media platform allowing us to leave networks like Facebook & Co per digital "suicide" while moreover being enabled to decide ourselves what we want to happen with our data.