- A debate questioned whether social-skills deficits in DIYBio leaders predict project failure, with one side arguing poor heuristics signal neurological issues that hinder collaboration, while entrepreneur Jonano countered that technical talent and capital are the only requirements for success.

- Jonano launched DIYBio.Biz, a three-day-old peer-to-peer lending and marketplace platform for citizen biology, forecasting a $10 million DIY-bio economy within ten years and soliciting third-party partners.

- Participants prototyped a “real-life AdBlock Plus” using MyVu video glasses and diminished-reality algorithms to replace outdoor advertisements with user-curated contextual overlays; the existing Unlogo project (code.google.com/p/unlogo/) and demo video were cited as working implementations.

- An inventory of open-innovation challenge platforms—Innocentive, Kaggle, yet2.com, Accelovation, NineSigma, Illumin8, Expernova, Expernova—was compiled under the umbrella term “ideagoras,” with interest expressed in an RSS aggregator for global challenge feeds.

- Hardware and science links shared included a 3-D magnetic field viewer on Instructables, NASA Ames’ 100-Year Starship program (icarusinterstellar.org), and TreeSheets (treesheets.com) as a visual outliner/PIM tool.

- A Lexmark printer firmware ruling (lwn.net/Articles/396687/) was highlighted as legal precedent that firmware used solely for access control may be bit-for-bit copied for interoperability purposes.

- DIYbio London meetup recordings were made available via Ustream (IDs 9751397 and 9751731) for asynchronous community review.

- A liquidation auction in Dothan, Alabama (Hilco Industrial, sale ID 1831) offered high-end fabrication equipment—Mazak Nexus VCN-510C CNC mill, multiple Bridgeport mills, large Mazak engine lathe, Netzsch PMC-VC-2500 intensive mixer—of interest to open-source bio- and hardware labs.