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Aula presents: O'Reilly/CMP Web 2.0 Helsinki meetup

Brady Forrest and Jennifer Pahlka from O'Reilly are co-chairing the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin November 5-8. They will be in Helsinki on Friday 13 July to meet people and scout for cool projects for the event. I'd like to invite you to an open meetup at 5pm at Restaurant Via. It's a great chance to meet Brady and Jen, share projects and discuss the latest going-ons on the Web over a glass of wine.

Sign up for the event on Upcoming.org: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/213498

Please mark yourself as atteding on the Upcoming event page so we know who's coming, and pitch in by helping to spread the word to people Brady and Jen should meet.

See you there!
Jyri

Jul 05, 2007 by Jyri 0 responses

Free FON base stations

FON is giving out free Wi-Fi access points in Finland until Dec. 24th.

--Ilmaisen tukiaseman tilaaminen onnistuu www.fon.com osoitteessa klikkaamalla kohdasta "Buy". Kun kohdemaaksi on valittu "Finland", hinnaksi tulee 0 euroa. Tukiasema tulee kuriirilla kotiin viimeistään kolmen-viiden viikon kuluttua. Ensimmäiset tilaajat saavat tukiasemansa jo ennen joulua. Laitteen arvo on noin 80 euroa.--

Get yours now.

Nov 29, 2006 by Jyri 1 responses

John Buckman: Is There a Record Company That Is Not Evil?

Aula and Creative Commons Finland invite you to the next Aula Talk:
IS THERE A RECORD COMPANY THAT IS NOT EVIL?
John Buckman, CEO and Founder, Magnatune
www.magnatune.com

Monday, October 23rd 19:00 - 20:30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo
Töölönkatu 51B, Helsinki

Tilaisuus on avoin ja maksuton. Luento on englanninkielinen.
Welcome - Tervetuloa!

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John Buckman isn't afraid to point out what's wrong with the music industry. Hit-driven radio is boring. CDs cost too much, and artists only get 20 cents to a dollar for each CD sold. Online sales (such as on Amazon.com) often cost the artist 50% of their already-pathetic royalty. Record labels lock their artists into legal agreements that hold them for a decade or more. Napster, Gnutella and Kazaa proved that people love music, and they want to share it - but the entrenched record industry wants to kill P2P and internet radio.

"Magnatune is my project. The goal is to find a way to run a record label in the Internet Reality: file trading, Internet Radio, musicians' rights, the whole nine-yards," Buckman explains on his blog.

Unlike regular record companies that share a percentage of their profit with artists, Magnatune shares a full 50% of the licensing, cd sales, and merchandise revenue (not profit) with the artists.

"I thought: why not make a record label that has a clue? That helps artists get exposure, make at least as much money they would make with traditional labels, and help them get fans and concerts."

Come and hear Buckman describe his vision of a record company that is not evil and discuss the earning model for Magnatune's open content distribution.

Oct 10, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Aula 2006 videos online

Videos of 19 of the 20+ talks from Aula 2006 - Movement are now available on Blip.tv. The appearances include:

... and 8-minute lightning speeches, including

... and many more beautiful acts. Enjoy!

A huge thanks to Merci Hammon and Justin Hall for the camerawork and production.

Last but not least: if you watch only one thing, make it Cory Doctorow's brilliant closing speech, captured Loic Lemeur.

Aug 20, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Matt Biddulph video now available

The video of Matt Biddulph's Aula Talk on the Open Data Movement is now available online.

In the talk, Biddulph describes how the Open Data Movement emerged from Open Source. He discusses the relationship between Open Data, Open Content, and Open Source, and gives examples of open data services that he has helped to create. The talk is followed by a Q&A.

This talk is highly recommended to anyone interested in open data, mashups, and the future of the Web.

Thanks to Matt and everyone who showed up for a fantastic evening. Stay tuned for more Aula Talks!

Aug 20, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Matt Biddulph on the Open Data Movement

The Aula Talks series continues this Thursday! Don't miss this one:

OPEN DATA MOVEMENT - THE NEXT WAVE OF OPEN SOURCE

Matt Biddulph
www.hackdiary.com

Thursday August 17th at 18:00
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
6th floor, Pinta-building, High Tech Center (HTC), Ruoholahti
Tammasaarenkatu 3, Helsinki

The talk is free and open for everyone. Welcome - Tervetuloa!

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The Wikipedia is only the tip of the iceberg of information that is becoming freely accessible on the internet. Following the success of open source, an open data movement is occurring online that seeks to gather, publish and enable the reuse of rich machine-readable datasets - like all programs ever broadcasted by the BBC.

By opening up these wellsprings of information, which were previously only accessible to large institutions, the open data movement has unleashed a new wave of creativity on the Web. Programmers, students, and companies are building mashups by overlaying photos, blog posts, and other objects to open datasets like the BBC Programme Catalogue, Wikipedia, Open Streetmap, and Thinglink.

As a case in point, Biddulph will describe how the BBC's database of programming from the 1920s to the present day was transformed from an internal green-screen application to a public Web 2.0 service using Ruby on Rails.

Expect to see some playful examples of what you can do with the BBC Programme Catalogue, Thinglink, and other open datasets.

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Matt Biddulph is a freelance software developer based in London. He previously worked at BBC Radio and Music Interactive as the leader of the software architecture team, aka Head of Plugging Things Into Other Things. He blogs on Hack Diary.

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Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in attending.

See you there! Big thanks to Ulla for the organizing.

Aug 15, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Aula 2006 Flickr pool

For some great photos of the event, have a look at the Aula 2006 photo pool on Flickr. Here are some of my favorites:

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Jun 29, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

More Aula 2006 coverage

Some more links:

Impressions of the event by Adam Greenfield

Bruno Giussani's summary of the first day

Notes from the first day's talks by Henri Sivonen

Notes from the first day by Frans Mäyrä

Notes from the first day by Niko Nyman

Jun 22, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Aula 2006 coverage

A huge thanks to the participants, the speakers, and the extended network of Aula volunteers for making Aula 2006 - Movement "one of the most stimulating events i've been to in a long long time," to quote danah boyd.

Photos of the event on Flickr

Report by Aula blogging partner 3quarksdaily

Summary of the first day by Teemu Arina

Photo summary of the first day by Janne Kalliola

Martin Varsavsky blogs about launching Fon Finland at Aula

Marko Karppinen comments on Clay Shirky's talk

Bruno Giussani's summary of the second day of the event

Summary of the second day by Ross Mayfield

Video of Cory Doctorow's closing keynote on the future, posted by Loic Lemeur

"Will it work?" wonders Charlie Schick about the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club mentioned by Cory

Joi Ito and Loic Lemeur podcast on online games, video, music and copyright from Aula

Ross Mayfield comments on Jim Griffin's talk about common facts in fragmented media

Alice Taylor's "games/broadcast movement" presentation

Jun 20, 2006 by Jyri 0 responses

Aula 2006 moved to Bio Rex - Event open for public attendance

Aula 2006 - Movement has been moved from Rake sali to a larger venue, the Bio Rex theatre at Mannerheimintie 22-24. The event will be open for free public attendance - no advance registration is required.

Keynote speeches will begin on Wednesday, June 14th, at 17:00 in the Bio Rex theatre. Doors will open at 16:00.

Seating on site will be available on first come-first served basis. We recommed early arrival to ensure seating. There will be seats reserved for those who have already registered and received a confirmation email from Aula.

The Aula 2006 keynote speakers are Clay Shirky of New York University, Alastair Curtis the Nokia Head of Design, Martin Varsavsky founder of the Wi-Fi network FON, and investor and internet visionary Joichi Ito.

The gathering will also include performances by saxophonist Jukka Perko and dancer Nina Hyvärinen.

Jun 07, 2006 by Jyri 1 responses

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