Slideshare private beta

Slideshare is to presentations what Flickr is to photos.

Brilliant. Useful. Quick. Social. One button. Sharable. And, oh, so web 2.0!

The software, developed by the usual suspects at Uzanto, is actually in private beta: I have some invitation left I haven’t planned to use, so you might want to leave a comment under this picture to receive one.

And you also can take a look at the slides I shared.

Forthcoming speaking appointments

I’m starting my autumn season for seminars next week, and I’d say that yours truly has been invited as a speaker to pretty interesting and high level seminars this year.

We’ll start on Monday 3 October with a so trendy Web 2.0 closed group seminar in Torino (yes, where we had Olimpic Games early this year) in a medieval castle. The stage should be pretty interesting based on what the organizers told me. But just the fact to talk about innovative technologies inside a castle is really amazing.
What am I gonna to talk about? Mobup my friends. And how we managed to have a multi-level mash-up between the phisical and the digital worlds.

On October 10th I’ll daily commute to Rome (Trenitalia PLEASE stay stick to your timetable!) for a talk at the Tor Vergata University organised uber-cool Interfacce06 Conference speaking about the international User Experience group I’m representing in Milan: UXnet.

This year I’m also actively participating as Regional Liason for the organization at a European level of the UPA organized World Usability Day 2006 acting as a link between all the european event organizers and the central comitee (pretty interesting job though). I’ll also have a small speech at the Milan WUD event at the Bicocca University with a UXnet based speech, again.

Tomorrow I’ll be in Bergamo to listen to a seminar by Marvin Minsky (Genious and MIT AI Lab founder) on emotional robots. I’m not speaking, but will be a nice chance to chat with some old friends in the innovation business.

Mobup with GEOtagging now available

Flickr has recently released a new tool to display geotagged photos and manually geocode existing ones.

I’m very happy to announce that the NEW version of Mobup (v.0.4) is now freely available with a function to automatically geotag your photos using an external bluetooth GPS device.

We’re supporting ALL the external GPS devices that could be used paired with a bluetooth cameraphone. If you don’t have any you could buy one for few bucks on eBay (I’ve bought mine there, and it’s plain great!)

All the Mobup geotagged photos are visible not only on Flickr and its maps but also on our very own mash-up prepared by Tom Landspurg.