If there is anyone reading this blog who is attending the Finnish Mass Customization and Personalization Forum in Tampere on November 28, and would like to provide a report of how the conference went, I’d be very pleased to publish it here.

If you have a look at the homepage of this site, you’ll see that I’ve added in a ‘MeeboMe’ chat box.  I’ll be online tomorrow at about 21:30 (GMT) for a while if anyone wants to drop by and pose a question or chat about MC issues (or whatever else you might think of..)

Sophia Chua, writing in Australian site Ferret.com.au has an article on digital manufacturing / rapid prototyping, and looks briefly at cost comparisons between rapid manufacturing and conventional manufacturing.

James Bain, writing in Apple Matters, gives a very detailed review of iFrogz, a company that makes customized cases for Apple iPods.

I previously wrote about the MadeForOne.com blogroll, and how readers could view the blogroll list on the Share Your OPML site.
Since then, I’ve looked again at the Bloglines site, and have found that it allows public blogrolls to be downloaded as OPML files, something which was unavailable on Share Your OPML. Therefore I’ve added [...]

I’ve added a Mass Customization and Personalization Events calendar to this site, using Google calendar.  I’ll add details of any conference or other event that is likely to be of interest to readers.  The Mass Customization and Personalization Events calendar can be viewed from the site homepage.
I’m slowly re-designing the homepage to act as more [...]

There is a lot of attention being given by the computer gaming community to the new Spore game, which has not yet been officially released. It is expected to outsell The Sims, which is the World’s biggest selling game to date.
An interesting aspect of the Spore game is that it allows players to design [...]

Bobbie Thomas at MSNBC has recently written about the current growth in the popularity of personalization of clothing, footwear and accessories.

Geman technology website PC-Welt has an interesting article about the Gateway for Integrated Genomics-Proteomics Applications and Data (GIGPAD), which was set up by the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG). (This article is in part of the site’s English language content.)
The role of GIGPAD is to carry out research on how an [...]

In a newspaper called the St. Petersburg Times (Florida, USA), Mark Albright writes about ‘Tapping a Market of Misfits‘, which describes how a couple set up an online store, ForTheFit.com, that specialises in clothing for men of 5 feet 9 inches or less in height.
While ForTheFit.com is not a mass customizer, the article also looks [...]

Not the water itself, but the label. Individuals who are celebrating weddings, family reunions, picnics, summer camp programs, fundraisers, etc. can contact the Designer Water USA office to place customized water orders.

Automation systems website ISA.org carries an interesting article on Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
One interesting quote from the article:
“The aerospace and automobile industries now see themselves as system integrators; their role is not to manufacture all of the underlying parts and components but to purchase them from a global marketplace. In this new context, [...]

A report in the North Carolina News and Observer, describes how computer maker Dell is to begin a new advertising campaign that focuses on the company’s attribute of building computers to order.

I am digressing a little from the usual theme of this site to talk about blogs and OPML, and how readers can easily access a full list of related sites.

Readers of MadeForOne.com may be interested in a blog set up by the team working on the Open Prototype Home Initiative.
In case you are not familiar with it, the Initiative was the subject of a feature article on this site late last year.
The blog can be viewed here; for those of you who use aggregators, [...]