Interesante muestra en el Espacio Fundación Telefónica

En este post, los buenos de ShopoBot comparan los Demo Days de dos grandes incubadoras, TechStars y Angelpad.

Literalmente mucho del tráfico de Internet en Estados Unidos pasa por allí, y como resaltan varios de los testimonios (entre ellos el de Saskia Sassen)  no debemos olvidar nunca que Internet es algo físico, que puede tocarse y fundamentalmente material; aunque de manera primaria nos parezca algo etéreo, intangible, casi de un mundo meta-territorial.

Aunque me dejó con ganas de más, tiene el tiempo justo para echar alguna reflexión sobre el tema.

Vía → BetaBeat

Barefoot into Cyberspace, the book you’re about to read, is a zeitgeist book, too. At least, that’s what I intended it to be. At the end of 2009 I set out to record for posterity characters that, since I left adolescence and Brighton behind,had played key roles in the digital counterculture I eventually settled in to and that I suspected was about to disappear. These characters weren’t the “rip, mix,burn”, iPad -wielding social media consultants and purveyors of gadget-prop sooften associated with the web. They were hackers and geeks, command-linecowboys, info-terrorists and civil libertarians. They had seen in the rise of many-to-many communications technology an opportunity to free modern society fromcorrupt institutions, to develop new ways of organising away from the imperative of industrial capitalism, and to seize agency and power from the jaws of theconsumerist beast.

Whether you are looking to create a niche question and answer site for comic book collecting or looking for a knowledge base solution for your intranet, Coordino is here for you.

How is the fate of one company connected to that of other businesses? How does the health of one individual affect that of his or her community? How do we make sense of a world that is becoming increasingly more connected–a world where complexity has become increasingly difficult to understand and manage?

Archived webcasts from both days are available.