Category: Events

1st Riga Twitter Meetup aka Tweetup Coming Up »

Riga, Latvia Twitterverse, get ready!! Right about next Friday, June 19th 2009, when the time hits 6 PM – the event will unfold.
Twitter users that happen to be in town are gonna gather up for an informal meetup at the one and only Pulkveža Brieža KID spot.
The Friday night was chosen after a pretty hot [...]

Japanese Animation Festival In Riga »

I learned what’s anime not too long ago – after watching the legendary Cat Soup cartoon. It kinda had a dual impact on me, so I’d like to discover the world of globally renowned Japanese animation to the full.
Exclusive opportunity to do that on a big screen is offered by Japanese Animation Festival AnimeFest 6. [...]

Let’s Show The Planet Some Love. With Lights Off, Of Course.. »

As our lives tend to rotate more and more around Twitter, I can’t help but join the orbit – or.. ehm.. tworbit?.. (Yeah, everything His Twitterness touches, get a smooth lil’ tw prefix – it’s like Snoop’s izzle, you feel what I’m sizzle?)..
Anyway.The twaily twonderings around made me twumble upon such thing as an Earth [...]

Becoming a Godfather.. »

This BarCamp week-end has been much more spiritual for me than in some other way technical, geeky or otherwise. Some of y’all know from my tweets that I was about to become a Godparent on Saturday. Christened a new born baby boy by the beautiful Russian name of Gleb – a second son of a [...]

Riga riots were minor and ceased quickly »

Mayn, ain’t nothing real overwhelming happened last night actually.
Maybe I feel like that cause I was shooting hoops over in Pardaugava and missed some of the live action? TV, breaking news type of live action, I mean.

The reporters seemed like nearly enjoying this mess. I don’t know but to me, this whole riot thing doesn’t [...]

OpenCoffee Meetups To Unite Idea Authors And Investors »

If you have an original idea / business model / startup to kick off on the web, but feel short in cash or resources, then the perfect way for you to nail down a potential partner are OpenCoffee format meetups, which are now going to take place in Riga too.
That goes to investors as well [...]

Eurovision clowning »

My TV remote’s OFF button clicked right when I heard an awful song which was performed by some group dressed like pirates jumpin’ around the stage. At that moment I thought, well yeah, there are hopefully better performers to make it to the Eurovision contest, this one is a flop for sure.
Imagine how shocked I [...]

Web’s Gonna Getcha »

On the note of TNS releasing the news of the tremendous growth online media advertising market saw through 2007, I would like to praise and applause for this thing we’re so used to: the Web. C’mon y’all, stand up! That’s what I’m talking bout.
Ad market is surely reflecting what the masses chew on – an [...]

How To Make An Incubator? »

..Before you start making an incubator, you should decide how many eggs you would like to incubate simultaneously..
We’re at BarCamp are kinda different from all of those farmers and embryologists out there. The eggs being incubated simultaneously, umm, the applications for funding, were not limited – everyone could submit whatever amount of projects to the [...]

Riga went back to “Ice Age” »

Russia’s 1st Channel produced figure ice skating reality show Ice Age came to rock the Arena Riga crowd this past week-end. As the City traveled way back through ages to freeze down in Ice Age, the fully packed hall warmed the figure skaters with welcome and a stand-up applause. The 10,000 audience was just amazing, [...]