Los “Demo Days” son eventos en los cuales las aceleradoras o incubadoras presentan a la comunidad inversora los avances de sus startups. Suelen ser eventos cargados de adrenalina y tensión, ya que se espera que los proyectos que exponen levanten el interés de los fondos y así ampliar su capital.
En este post, los buenos de ShopoBot comparan los Demo Days de dos grandes incubadoras, TechStars y Angelpad.
Interesante mini-documental sobre el edificio de 60 Hudson Street, en el bajo Manhattan, uno de los puntos neurálgicos de concentración de tráfico de datos en la ciudad de Nueva York.
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.
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In his story “The Aleph,” which may be his greatest, Borges managed to envision this Aleph without computers or anything like them. He skips the issue of what it is and how it works. It just sits there under the stairs in the basement of some old house in Buenos Aires, and nobody says why, but you have to go down the stairs, lie on your back, look at this thing, and if you get your head at the right angle, then you can see everything there is, or ever was, anywhere, at any time.
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.
Future of Web Apps – London 2009
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“Apple Lossless Audio Codec se convierte en open source” es una entrada vista en → AppleWeblog
Excelente post de Ricardo Galli contando una larga e intensa historia personal con el gran Richard Stallman, que en su última visita a la Argentina generó una intensa -y necesaria- polémica sobre el plan Conectar Igualdad.
