Posts Tagged starting-up
Looking oversea
Six years ago, when I first started Frontiers of Interaction, I wouldn’t have imagined to start talking about exporting the conference abroad. Well.. now read what I’ve just posted on the conference blog:
While all the Frontiers of Interaction team is strongly focused on the organization of the Summer conference in Italy (Rome, June 3rd-4th) we have started thinking to the international version of the event.
We have clear in mind which are our conference points of strength and really want to invest in them, and producing an abroad version of the conference as cool as what we’ve done in Italy for years, just sounds terrific!
There’s a city in US that’s probably the most European, that has the nicest fall in the Country, that’s probably the only eastern US city that comes in mind when speaking about technology and innovation (does anybody ever heard of the MIT?) and that city is Boston.
We believe there’s space in US for “yet another innovation conference” because of the specific format Frontiers has: it’s not only a conference, it’s not only a show, it’s the both of them perfectly mixed up. We believe that there’s need and space for italian makers and innovators on the American conference scene. And we want to be the ignitors.
Giuseppe, PhD Boston Univeristy, docente di Applied Innovation in Mobile Computing at Harvard University, è tra i fondatori del Mobile Group di Boston (il più grande del mondo).Recidivo della top10 su AppStore è un Guru del mobile, ma sopratutto una intelligenza italiana che ha saputo coniugare una vita nella culla della Ricerca hightech con le proprie radici più profonde. Vedi il suo profilo su wikipedia.Giuseppe Taibi, PhD at the Boston University, teaches Applied Innovation in Mobile Computing at Harvard University, he is a co-founder of the Boston Mobile Group (the biggest of its kind in the World). As a mobile Guru he’s a frequent appearance in the AppStore Top10, and he’s a great example of Italian intelligence that has been able to merge a life in the World capital of high-tech research with his own mother country culture.
Giuseppe is joining us taking the role of Boston conference co-producer. And as you can see from the above image we’ve already started working together at the US Fall event. Welcome aboard Giuseppe!
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).
YellowLine. Reloaded
Yep. More or less as in Matrix 2.0. New server, new Word Press, new template. And a brand new load of messy problems: giving the fact that I have not been able to convert my old WP 2.0 database into the new one, I really managed to completely f**k the previous version of the blow which now appears in a shining 500 error.
I really had the intention to repost the whole 2002 (circa) 2008 archive (which is now accessible only via MySQL admin consolle) before firing up the public version of the blog but we’re living tough times, my friends, and I’m pretty sure that the risk was to have everybody waiting forever.
Every week I’ll cherry-pick precious content from the past and post it here, in its original form and publishing date, waiting for a cool idea (or a cool friend) that we’ll magically import the whole database in a few seconds.
Everything is still very beta and I still need to have some plugins installed (such as the connections to my Flickr and Last.fm accounts) and the template completely tuned; but the RSS feed now correctly points here, and we cn only get better.
