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 =)

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.

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 :)

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 :-)

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.

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Some friends focused on the projects, the others contributed in many different ways.

Gioia Feliziani, Alice Avallone, Chiara De Caro were priceless contributors in communicating the event, organizing the whole meeting and sharing ideas!

All of this would not have happened without Edoardo Piccolotto.

MIKAMAI is proud to host the Hack-Up on January 18!

But what’s Hack-Up? And why would anybody be interested in it?

Hack-Up is an informal meeting for people sharing a common passion for technology, hacking devices and code.

It works like this: people propose different ideas and groups are self-assembled. Each group has to develop a project in 4 hours. All projects are published in an open wiki allowing anybody to use or implement them. No long term commitment, no remorse about leaving, no problem branching the project and building on it and making it your own. It’s that easy!

These are the projects we are going to focus on:

• Continue Project TAG from previous Hack-Up to create an easy way to put projects online.
• Video manipulation: flash applications to allow shared videos manipulation of virtual objects.
• Continue Arduino Jabber Knock from previos Hack-Up to get it routed via Pachoube.

Wow! I’m in! What should I do?

You may confirm your participation and join us on jan 18 at midday @Frida or at 2pm right here @MIKAMAI !

Wikisap, Capistrano, cloud computing, tecnologie video.

Mikamai fa innovazione e nuove tecnologie, ma non solo.

Non si può mai scordare che dietro il duro lavoro, dietro il business,  dietro l’azienda che fattura e produce c’è il lato umano, c’è la persona, c’è il sentimento, c’è la pallanuoto tutti insieme in Toscana!

Sicuri di volerci conoscere?

Ve la siete cercata!

Credits: Agata Tempesta, Giorgio Montersino.

(Dorkbot WHAT?)

Dorkbot Milano è un incontro mensile tra artisti, designers, tecnologi, studenti e chiunque altro attorno a Milano interessato all’uso creativo della tecnologia. Le riunioni sono gratis e aperte a tutti. Dorkbot non è solo a Milano: per la lista delle città vedi qui.

(Dorkbot WHO?)

Partecipano:

• Massimo Banzi di Tinker;
• Massimiliano Nazzi ed Emanuele Martina col progetto Teatrino Elettrico;
• Lorenzo Viscanti di MIKAMAI col progetto Altomic- un social network per interazioni video.

(Dorkbot WHERE?)

L’appuntamento di questo mese è presso il Circolo Arci Metissage, in via Borsieri 2 – entrata da Via De Castilla, quartiere Isola, dalle 19 in poi.

Guarda la mappa.

(Dorkbot WHY?)

Per dare la possibilità a chi fa un uso creativo della tecnologia di discuterne in maniera informale con altre persone interessate allo stesso campo.

Per creare un luogo dove presentare progetti di arte/tecnologia/software/hardware.

Per promuovere la creazione di relazioni e collaborazioni tra persone di provenienza ed interessi diversi, con una passione in comune.

Partecipa anche tu, no?!