interesting conversation
Build a startup in 48 hours?
There seem to be many variations on this theme; startupweekend, Garage48, Buildit, Game Jam, Service Jam…. But, almost all of these events seem to ask people to sign up, and select one of their grand sounding titles (Developer, Designer, Visionary etc). I think it would be better if they used titles that described what you [...]
A new type of event?
So yesterday the first un-sauna took place here in Helsinki. Sami from HUB Helsinki had decided to take the un-conference idea and add a Finnish twist to it. The idea being to do short discussions between the “rounds” of sauna. Even though only 3 of us turned up, as one of the ideas behind un-events [...]
SSWC – the memories
How do you sum up a weekend like that? If someone asked you “Hey, do you want to spend 50 hours traveling to spend 41 hours surrounded by 250+ people you have never met before?” you would think they were mad, but then they would have missed out some cool times and stories. Would I [...]
doing things in threes
With the official announcement of the N900 Nokia now has a 3 pronged OS platform attack: – S40 for the low end – S60 mid & high end (old fashioned?) smart phones – maemo to cover the new emerging market of internet oriented devices i.e. iPhone, Android, Palm pre Nokia in recent history has been [...]
Social network grouping
With the latest change to the Facebook profile page, one thing became clear to me, Facebook has managed to get something correct – grouping of your social network. In this latest incarnation of the interface, this grouping functionality is being brought much more upfront (it is there in the left hand column), and it is [...]
Is there a future for Location Based Services?
Following on from this Jaiku thread there were two questions asked: What’s your take on location based services? What in your view are the best opportunities or use cases with LBS? What’s your take on location based services? So far, i have not really be able to find a real use for any of the [...]
