Unconventional Everything (Mikamai)

There are times when Social Media tools and services don’t feel only like a way to keep in touch with my friends, get invited to events, advertisement for products and all the mainstream blah blah delivered directly to my feed or wall.  One of these times I am talking about was in Genova and Liguria over the last week.

The flooding, mudslides and devastation were all broadcast on television in Italy and throughout the World (I even got calls from friends abroad asking how they can donate to help Le Cinque Terre) while in Genova they were without power and without telephone land lines.  So what did they do in Genova?  They tweeted!

This was one of the most repeated phrases this week in Genova:
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The crossing success of a street man

Banksy is the man whose face has never been seen, the man who, in few hours, installs, sticks and “stains” the walls protesting, against war, against political events, against all unjust that happen nowadays.

In the ‘90s graffiti changed their shape and they started to be painted with installations, stickers, stencils, posters. It was the beginning of a new mass movement called Street Art.
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TV, Social Network, gadget and offline: nobody like them before

There was a prince, a simple girl, a carriage, horses, a lot of excited people, there was a promise to become the ruler of a great Country, a white and long wedding dress, the bridesmaids, a big church, flowers everywhere, paparazzi, and the live event on the BBC channel but, as all big events in theDigital Era, there was streaming on youtube, twitter and above all there was Facebook with uncounted dedicated pages and the classic funny fake accounts with the following denial.

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In the last few weeks we are working to update the Mikamai presentations. If you want to take a look at the complete one you can drop an email at info[at]mikamai.com.

Here’s what I did to sum up a few basic ideas about what we do day by day.

Here we are with a few videos from the January edition of Facebook Developer Garage London.

This is the event report from Newspepper:

And here’s the chairman Todd Chaffee speaking:

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