Today I had the pleasure to do a keynote session about Social Media - New Tools for New Innovations.
During my presentation I talked about the second Internet generation we are living in and what will define tomorrow’s network. The bottom line was about how applications built for collective intelligence can support and optimize the innovation process.
Audience: The Finnish regional managers that invited me + external audience (the event was free and open to the public)

Today I read an interesting point and conversation following that opinion about web 2.0 and social media. Chris Brogan’s blog had an visitor, Dennis Fowlett who started from naming Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin boring and went on critizising the benefits of web 2.0.

Sanastokeskus TSK and the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority are going to hold press conferences (announcement meetings) about the Future Internet Terminology Project on October 8th, one in Helsinki and another one in the MindTrek Conference, Tampere (aimed at conference participants).

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Next month in Berlin (Germany) will take place the Web 2.0 Expo Europe. The event is co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media and it’s dedicated to web designers, developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.

Do you remember professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University?

The Communication Management Association (CMA) in the UK is organising a 1 day event called "Communication 2.0" with much ado about social networking, wikis, blogs, web 2.0 etc!

In my opinion this is a terrific example that demonstrate the value of virtual worlds like Second Life.

Hat tip to Ross Dawson.

Norfello, a software development and public web-based services company, has launched

Finland is renown best from Nokia and competence in the mobile technology. In addition to Nokia’s success many unexpected innovations have been born in Finland – Linux kernel, SMS messaging and IRC – Internet relay chat, forefather of instant messengers. So, in addition to mobile technology enthusiasm the Finns can be expected to push to the limits with new, disruptive ideas. The latest – but certainly not the last - was Jaiku, acquired by Google in 2007.

There is an ongoing boom of European countries grouping their social media startups and taking them to San Francisco with plans to dig(g) gold. Delegations from Israel (which can be considered Europe based on their presence in the Eurovision song contest), UK and Spain have recently or will tour the Bay area with their best rosters. The Finnish strike team is arriving in San Francisco in three days.