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 =)

Geeks, entrepreneurs and web people from the whole country joined the Startup Night on september 7th @MIKAMAI office in Milan.

You may want to check out some photos or some videos: here and here.

Here’s a review on TECHCRUNCH!

I’ve heard a lot about “Mathematica“, a software developed by controversial geek celebrity Stephen Wolfram, but it wasn’t until I met some of its passionate users that I got really into it.  As London-based architect Jiang Shu Han puts it, it’s about visualizing problems in order to trigger intuitive development of possible solutions to them: he used Mathematica to analyze 8-years of email traffic, and find interesting patterns in it. It all came down to a beautiful graph that really looked like art. He then went to explain why he’s into it: he’s looking forward cellular automata answering questions about how people can use space more efficiently. Really interesting.

As Timothy Walker, Maths professor at Ohio Dominican University, tells me why he got into Stephen Wolfram’s NKS Summer School in Italy and shows me some of his code, I understand how fun it can be to play with something that feels like a programming language, a sandbox, a spreadsheet-on-steroids, all together. I get excited, and ask him if I can play with it to visualize social graph data. He gets excited too: we both leave our pasta aside and start coding in the middle of lunch. After a few minutes, under his patient and skillful guidance, we’ve got 2 Lines Of Code rendering 1000 nodes of Facebook’s icelandic network. How cool is that ?

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 :-)

MIKAMAI office in Milan deserves many surprises. One of them is couchsurfing, and we’re proud of it. Therefore, while organizing our working place we are able to host travelling people.

The last few weeks were full of hosts enjoying Milan and MIKAMAI hospitality. Come and visit us ;)

Le Sketchine

Italiano

Il 27 Aprile alle 7 di sera ospiteremo lo UXmeetup organizzato dai nostri amici di Sketchin presso lo studio di MIKAMAI.  Sarà una serata dedicata alla User Experience con focus specifico sull’Internet Mobile.  Iscrivetevi su meetup o facebook!

English

We are proud to host the UXmeetup organized by our Sketchin friends at the MIKAMAI Studio on the 27th of April at 7pm.  It will be an evening on User Experience and the main topic will be Internet Mobile.  Go to meetup or facebook to subscribe.

English

We started out with a few events every couple of months and now it looks like there is something new every day. This is a video from last sunday Slow Lighting Event, a collaboration between Tinker.it, MIKAMAI, Metissage, Cloudify, Edoardo Piccolotto and many many other people that turned up there.  We built interactive lamps connected to twitter and facebook via some restful API that can be used by the Arduino.

Italiano

Prima era un evento ogni paio di mesi.. ora c’e’ da fare qualcosa quasi ogni giorno. Se sopravvivviamoa questo mese sarà un successo :-)  Questo è un video dell’evento Slow Lighting di domenica scorsa, fatto in collaborazione da Tinker.it, MIKAMAI, Metissage, Cloudify, Edoardo Piccolotto e un sacco di altra gente che è venuta a trovarci.  Abbiamo costruito lampade interattive connesse ai social network tramite una API Rest scritta in ruby on rails e che permette agli Arduino che comandano le lampade di mediare informazioni social attinte in tempo reale dalla rete.

English

Where Andrea Franz, our über serious former lead developer, shows how the drum riff of his latest song follows the same rhythm pattern he uses to open texmate..

Italiano

Dove Andrea Franz, in nostro serissimo ex lead developer, ci mostra come il giro di batteria di un pezzo della sua band segue lo stesso ritmo dell’apertura di texmate..