Jure Cuhalev

Jay, Ljubljana is finally waking up, so many techie/geek events in next two weeks that I can’t stop shaking from excitement (or maybe the problem is that decaf was not really decaf).

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A quick list:

5th of May, Tuesday – Ubuntu launch party @ Kiberpipa
6th of May, Wednesday – @wwwh of surprise but [...]

Last Friday, at BarCampZagreb, I heard once again the usual phrase:

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2009 (substitute with year + 1 if it’s already that year), will be a year of Linux Desktop
There were even some years (mostly 2001-2003) when I claimed that now it’s really there. Then I got my first OS X powered iBook and stopped [...]

For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by a concept of social objects. The idea of social objects on Internet is that they’re objects around which conversation happens, they’re shared and interacted with. The most common example is Flickr, where they’ve turned images into something more by giving community ability to comment, tag, share, embed, [...]

  
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Zbigniew Braniecki – the power of communities; how to create communities, what does it mean to have a community and what does it mean to participate to communities.
 
Why people do things
The do it because they want a reward in some way. There are different types of rewards:

external motivations (good grade, money, airline miles)
hobby

Driven [...]

Yesterday Metropol opened another hi-tech art installation, this time from Robertina Šebjanič produced by Daša Lakner for Kiberpipa Err0r group with title Pufination. The art piece is about pufies, 4 robots that communicate with each other and try to do everything to attract observers attention.
They blink, change color, wiggle, make sounds and are all together [...]