Unconventional Everything (Mikamai)

UPDATE: interviews by Vodafone Lab here.

It’s exactly what it sounds like: tech people talking about their start-up experiences, sharing business ideas, creating connections. The second Startup Night at The Hub Milan was great.

Some interesting projects here.

Related tweets here. Pics here.

On July 19th,  2009 it’s scheduled the Roma Startup Brunch. In the heart of San Lorenzo, we’ll share experiences and ideas about the next wave of Italian startups.

Prepare a 3 minute pitch to explain your idea or reality for a game-changing, international start-up. Arianna & Johanna will host this event: they just started an internationally funded company in San Lorenzo. You can sign up for the event, join us on our trip from Milan to Rome, and get updates on the live streaming in case you can’t come.

On Wednesday (July 15th, 2009) there’s going to be the second Giant Global Graph meeting. It follows the “GGG breakfast” (pic below), but this time it’s going to be a “GGG Aperitivo” :)

We are going to talk again about the social graph and how we can scrape it, put it to good use, monetize the social capital, create a trust-based economy.

Please bring your laptop, your code, and your own slice of graph: we share a passion for scraping it! :) You can share code, data, slides about your GGG-related project.

What we talked about last time: virtual currencies, Wikipedia as a social network, how to scrape and smush the graphs, subjective search engines, QQ Coins vs Renminbi, The Singularity (the rapture of nerds ?), abundance vs scarcity, trust networks, recommender systems, post-Google scenarios, subjective vs objective logic, Bruce Sterling, Gregg Egan, post-central banks world, and other stuff…

Sounds interesting ? You can sign up here. And yes, we’ll have an aperitivo at the pub after the meeting :)