Unconventional Everything (Mikamai)

I’ve never seen London. The capital of Western Europe. The Queen’s home. A shelter for geek people from all over the world. Home of the most advanced development.

AND HERE I COME!

The MIKAMAI developers’ team is joining RubyFoo, two days worth of thought provoking conference with a driving theme. Which sounds like: how to make Ruby talk your language! Some interesting interviews with some speakers are available here.

Maybe we’ll just stop in the Big City for a while =)

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 :)

Many strange people working on the social graph are converging tomorrow on Milano.

I am organizing a Giant Global Graph Breakfast on saturday morning (4th July 2009) to talk about the social graph and how we can put it to good use to create a trust based economy.

Giant Global Graph Breakfast! Tomorrow somewhere in Milano!

This is going to be a private event, but you can join us. I just need to know about it in advance.  Send us email+mobile on the contact form and I’ll let you know when and where we are going to meet up tomorrow.

‘cos webscraping is fun :-)

…salta fuori un gran bel fine settimana, come minimo!

Il 28 e 29 marzo 2009 Tinker.it e LBi IconMedialab organizzano un workshop su Arduino a Milano. Trovate tutte le info qui.

Il workshop base di Arduino sarà tenuto da Massimo Banzi, co-fondatore di Arduino, e si focalizza su un’introduzione pratica alla piattaforma Arduino: una piattaforma di prototipazione elettronica per creativi e professionisti. Ai partecipanti verrà data una visione d’insieme del mondo dell’interaction Design, della storia di Arduino e le sue applicazioni, poi messe in pratica individualmente o in gruppi sviluppando un progetto interattivo.

Per domenica 29 invece stiamo pensando a un’interazione costruttiva tra i partecipanti al workshop e il nostro Hack Up! Così portiamo avanti le esperienze di questi mesi.