Web project management in action

I am not a professional speaker at conferences: I do it on my spare time and usually no more than twice a year. But there are some things I learned and that I want to share with you. No, I’m not talking about using a Presentation Zen or Slide:ology approach because, as it was clear [...]

Last saturday in Ljubljana (Slovenia) I attended my first barcamp. Or, better, I attended the first barcamp worthy of its name. The success of this initiative has to be equally shared between organizers, speakers and the ones that filled the rooms. The organizers set a simple, yet winning formula: 20 minutes for every speech including [...]

End one of Le Web ’08 in Paris ends here. Here are some citations and feelings from today Le Web ’08 that I agree with: We yet have to see the consequences of this economical crisis (during the panel Getting financed in a recession) I hope the market will fall down till people understand what [...]

Mike Butcher from TechCrunch noted that year 2007 saw lot of activity concerning European startups, with Webex, Double click,Reuters, Aquantive being the more productive. Market clearly picked last year, but then prices started to fall. Recent investments were: networks go niche (the updown, kindo, visible path) advertisers get smarter (adinfuse, smaato, consorte) everything goes mobile [...]

Paulo Coelho in the past refused to give rights in order to make films from his books but, starting with the Witch of Portobello he started a project. Coelho has asked aspiring filmmakers to tell the tale from the point of view of one of the 13 characters in the book. He had an impressive [...]

In a very interesting speech Itay Talgam, Israeli conductor of orchestras and musician, talked about leadership and “love” as seen from the perspective of music and conductors. The idea of music and love go well together. Love, in particular, is an easy object for music. When you just love music everything is easy, but when [...]

David Weinberger suggests that the age of informations, as we are used to know it, has come to an end. The end of information doesn’t mean that there will not be information. It’s the contrary: we will always have it. But the viewof the world will change. Today the process of informations follows this path: [...]

My opinion after this speech is that Microsoft, even if Lewis states the contrary, doesn’t move away from its old position of monolithic corporation. Lewin says that you can choose open source if you want, but developing is adopting a path. If you choose Microsoft, you choose efficiency and high-quality, plus support to all standards [...]