Posts Tagged personal
Free wi-fi in Italy
Story 1: My parents recently returned from a trip to the Greek islands. We’ve been able to arrange a Skype video chat nearly every night at aperitif time: every bar had a free wifi connection. Every bar.
Story 2: my friend Gianfranco Chicco recently returned from a 6 month stay in Amsterdam (he’s the PICNIC conference marketing manager) and his main problem in Milan (!!) was to find open wifi networks (let me stress it: not FREE networks. OPEN. He was ready to pay for a connection.
How could you explain this?
The internet of things in my bathroom
I’d like to thank Paolo Guglielmoni for asking me to write a guest post on his Geek Advertising blog; Paolo is Creative Director at LeoBurnett and has created this fantastic idea of merging his Advertising background with his Geek passion. The site is really worth a look.
If you can read Italian (or if you can stand the Google Italian to English automatic translations) you’ll find my thoughts on Internet of Things and how oure children will laugh at non-connected objects the same way we laugh at audiotapes.
Oh, and I also speak about the Withings, a superbly designed wi-fi scale that has found its home in my bathroom.
Geekrunning now live!
Albeit it took some weeks for the idea to take shape in our minds both me and Paolo “advgeek” Guglielmoni (Leo Burnett Creative Director and geekrunning co-founder) have been pretty fast in executing it: just 10 days from the start-up during an Indian lunch to having domain + logo + manifesto + blog up and running.
Geekrunning is my new side (and no-profit) initiative for tech savvy runners, like yours truly, with the aim to create fun and networking opportunities on the move. I’ve found similar initiatives such as the SF Tech Runners truly inspiring and wanted to create something similar in Italy too.
We’re based in Milan, Italy and at the moment aren’t planning “official” activities in other places. But we’re coming with a nifty mass of online opportunities:
- Blog
- Facebook fan page (which is the best way to keep in touch and get updated)
- Twitter account
Which in our mind should open the way to the creation of a geographically diffused geekrunning team(s) thanks to a massive usage of (connected) technology such as the Nike+ platform (and no, Nike isn’t sponsoring – at the moment).
