Archive for May, 2007

Reboot Snippets

May 31st, 2007

So Reboot this year is on humanity….here are a few tidbits from this morning illustrating the breadth of the discussions:
On humans (Robert Paterson)
Humans take in 1.5 tons of matter each year. 98% of atoms in your body are replaced within a year.
On humanity and Second Life (Adam Arvidsson, the only academic I have seen talks […]

Rebooting…

May 31st, 2007

Reboot 9.0 just started in Copenhagen….probably the only conference with more than 500 people attending but no marketing, no real program set by the organizers and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, the main organizer, opening the confernence with the words: “There’s wifi…now and then”. That’ll make for interesting discussions, I hope..after all it’s time to “reboot”.
This years’s event […]

Interesting Incubator Initiative in Cologne

May 10th, 2007

Michael just pointed me to an interesting incubation initiative in Cologne: Speedseed (Site in German). The folks there started with their own entrepreneurial activities back at university and their incubation program seems to be well suited for students: Teams that are accepted into the program get to work with the Speedseed folks for three months, […]

next07 in Hamburg Tomorrow

May 2nd, 2007

Tomorrow the Next07 conference will be going on in Hamburg. For once an interesting conference that doesn’t require more than a subway ride (for me) to get to! It’ll be my pleasure to introduce and throw some questions at Nico Lumma, who’ll certainly also tell us a thing or two about his new project, Shoppero…