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H E L L O · F R I E N D S · and neighbours of the web2.0 social sphere. Im back from a manic week in Berlin. I was attending the international Web2.0 Expo and continued my exploration of Berlin and the digital cultural scene in the European Metropolis.
In Berlin you have great opportunities to choose from a multitudeof experiences. First the Expo with lecures by intersting speakers like Tim O’Reilly founder of the O’Reilly publishing house, a wellknown litterature source if you are a computer science student. And Yossi Vardi the inventor of ICQ and the diacronic messaing client concept. I see the sector today as a sea of with ripples of new intersting positive internet bubbles in a time of bursts. Like in physics bubbles produces waves on the surface that intersects and interacts. Positive vibrations in a time of bursts.

Combining roles as a new media entertainer and teacher. Duande from Toronto succesdes in that for sure. He has over 200.000 regular wievers of his net-TVshow Duandes World on Adobe.TV. He showed up with his distincte positive apperance, listening, smiling and dressed in a black leather coat with a flex logo on the back. Referenced by the other more formal dudes as ”Billy Idol of Flex”

Adobes Flex 3 for easily production of Rich Internet web sides driven by interaction with applications. New books where available for sale. For example you can build dynamic stock analyst sites for NASDAQ

Cloud computing
The new company Soundcloud from Sweden was presented by Alex. This is a new place for all of us independent musicartists. Alex estimated that +60k individuals are producing music in USA and there is a great market for supporting them on the net. SoundCloud doing this with all kind of services like uploading, community etc.

Salesforce from USA delivers safe solutions for distributed customized client support. Salesforce

I will do a lecture of the risks of cload prel. called distributed or disrupted? A case study from a musicians perspective

iPhones of course, everybody put them up and use the different apps, like the photo apps making sounds and animation of a big shutter.

OpenSource organizations and community as the way of thinking development. You are dispersed and make developement with people all around the world. Thats the new organization of the workforce.

Start ups like mushrooms
Everywhere there where young men and women dressed in a suit maybee for the first time? presenting themselves as CEO, CTO, CIO, CBO etc. actually being you and your best friend starting a company in your flat. Thats pointing to the future. In ten years the chinese suit-dude whery keen on learning will be the new Bill Gates.
A good point for startups is in times of depression, according to wellrenomated Saul Klein of Index Ventures based in London. The key issue is not venture money is in what you and your company can with in much limited montearty found, especially right now in uncertain times.
The Berlin City Development Council was letting entreprenours know that they are willing to give their support. Berlin Partner

Danger! The triad of dead cold products, ok not dead yet
Desktop computers - mail - computer books
Avoid them if possible!

To sum up in a light way - The Web 2.0 Berlin paraphrasing a song popular in YouTube (search for Flee Market Montogmery and sing along).
“Its just like, its just like, a miniolympics, for the future, of internet and computing, oh yeah”

Image above, from the light and sound show of the opening cermony

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I M · G O I N G · to Berlin today. Visiting the Web 2.0 Expo. Who is going to attend you can see on Crowdvine. The event will be held in Berliner Congress Center in Mitte (downtown) some minutes from the Alexanderplatz.

Expo info can be explored here

Web 2.0 Expo is hosted by O’Reilly and TechWeb.
The weatherforcast for Berlin is exellent for monday an thuesday with +16–18°C.

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I · H A V E · been active as tutor and teacher coaching several people into reach for a new desirable employment. Below I give short advice for how to make a kick start to get a position in the video game industry.

Write a personal letter describing yourself and ansvering the following questions:
/ who you are / What you are verry good at / why you should be picked / what others think of you
Produce a CV/ or resume with:
/ working experience / practice / education / language skills / other relevant info
Datamine the web on companies you are interested to work for finding out info about*:
/ operations and acctivites /annual report / nuber of employees / professional roles
/ trends / sales / turn over
/ titeles / projects / production lines and time lines
Create contact and ask for an internship
Use a coach and get an inspirational book on the subject

*If you want info about a swedish video game company you could use allabolag.se

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T O · M A K E · an Andrew Loyd Webber citation:
“The sun will come out tomorrow, Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!”
A new low price Apple notebook will see the light. Probably a MacBook priced USD 1.000, in metal. Newer before there has been so much interest and rumours about a computers case.
Learn more

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T O D A Y · I · V I S I T E D · an event called Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, an annual gathering for fans of old video and computer games. Gaming consoles and computers like C64, Nintendo NES, Sinclair Spectrum and Ataris. Lectures was presented by the early days enterpreneurs, today veterans. There was early conections between the music business and video games industry in the early days. CBS for example was involeved in the develpment of the PacMan game.

A video game quiz with 22 tunes was presented. Composer and game title you where supposed to remember. Music from C64, Nintendo NES and some remixes it was. I think of myself as a kind of video game music fan, but I got completely lost and succeded realy badly. I speaked with a dude that came as 6 in this competition and 2 in an overall retrogame competition. He was pleased with the day, two placements in the video game circuit in only one day. Old video game machines and subjects around them, have became objects for fashination just like old cars used to be.

The image above shows the price cermony and winner of swedich championships in original Pong video game at Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Martin Lindell from the Swedish Game Industry Association hosted the event. More than 200 individuals attended the event.

www.retrogathering.se

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V I S I T · European Commision’s researchers night web
Local activities in Stockholm starts 12:00 at Kulturhuset. Visit the event program

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I N · S T O C K H O L M · at Pub Anchor Sveavägen 90 at 09.00 PM the Swedish gigants of death/viking metal will release their new album. Check out their new widget beneath.

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T H E · C O N C L U S I O N · from the Multicore Day is a upcomming great paradigm shift. After a digital age with single microprocessor, linear applications, bus architechture and networking, we are climbing ower to a multicore or many core era. Chips with thousands of processing cores with own dedicated cache and I/O-bus and swich will be a reality in only six or eigh years. Today 4 cores are available in comercial processors, and 64 cores in the research like Tile64 from Tilera that host 64 cores in a regular mesh architecture.
Two cores in a processor will give a 50% faster prosessor, but upscaling with additions of cores will limit the speed, unless the methods threading is not optimated with multi threading.
New processors are suitable for running several OS and applications simultaneus extremely useful for demanding multimedia like HD video streaming management. A clear pro with multi/many core is lowered power consumtion and meeting environmental issues.
Ericsson R&D:s Mats Karlsson know that their future is in software development. Today 80% are working on software. Heteregenous processors will probably be adopted for applications.
Acumem founder Erik Hagersten lectured over parallelzing compiling and Mr. Hagersten is representing UPMARC a research programme with 60 MSEK for 10 years.
Stanford research manager Kunle Olukotun talked on Stanford Perversative Processing (SPP), parallel object language, and aim for development of Virtual World applications.

New Questions
• How to optimate threading of multiple/many cores
• Development of new tools and methods are needed.
• The limitation of internal bandwith is a great problem
• Regular mesh or heterogenity
• Hardware or software definition of applications
• New ways of thinking for new programmers

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I · A M · A T T E N D I N G · the Multicore Days at the new opened Kista Expo in Kista Science City. Keynote will be presented by Kunle Olukotun from Stanford University and after him will Anant Agarwal from MIT and Tilera give a lecture. The event is hosted by Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Read the complete Program

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T H E · N E W · webbrowser from Google, Crome was released as a beta for Windows on tuesday 2 September. What is Chrome? Execution speed for javascript enhanced, adaption for webapplications, minimalistic design etc. But eyh, it's better to let the Google developers explain.

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T O · E V E R Y · C H I L D · is an educational project with Nicholas Negroponte from MIT involved.

“Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Visit the OLPC:s web

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S P O R E · V I D E O · G A M E · by EA released 4 September, here discussed by producer Will Wright.

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L I S T E N · T O · T H I S · keyboard shredder. Not only guitarists can play fast.

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A · N E W · M A G A Z I N E · for macusers with a maclifestyle perspective will enter the market soon. It’s Peter Esse from Macradion and Macfeber, one of Swedens most popular blogs, that is the founder of this new paper.
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