I’m sure most of y’all heard about TED – Ideas worth spreading – and have probably watched at least one TED Talk in your life. (If not, I guarantee you’re gonna find one that’ll become your favourite). Well, TEDx are kinda wannabe-TED-events, independently organized throughout the world. One of them was hosted in Riga today. Presented [...]

Long awaited, anticipated and hated – it finally arrives: the official, state-owned Crime Map displaying law violations committed on the territory of Latvia. Provided by the government e-services web portal Latvija.lv, the map currently features crimes from January 1 2010 only, but definitely provides valuable informative insight. It is available in Latvian only and allows [...]

Thanks to the Riga Transport enthusiast Viteks Bariševs, Riga will now have a cool public transit map. The official carrier, Rigas Satiksme, has failed to introduce its own comprehensive solution for years, so the initiative is now in hands of a private creator. Currently, the map is available as preview only, on Viteks Bariševs’ Facebook [...]

Word on the street, is that Google Maps Street View Team is pumpin their tires and fillin up gas tanks to finally roll out to the roads of Riga and the rest of Latvia. Now it’s been some time (like a year or two?), since Google applied for the possibility to scan the city. After [...]

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 [...]

Last week, I found a free newspaper called “New Riga” in my mailbox. The piece of paper turned out to be a political advertisement, a campaign of LPP/LC party. Run, of course, by Ainars “Who Else Could It Be” Shlesers. The man is eying a chair of Riga Mayor, which prolly is a good thing. [...]

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 [...]

The forecasters predicted this to be happening around last night. Major storm is gonna hit Riga, bla bla bla.. It was calm and not even windy at all yesterday. They just got the timing wrong. Well, with a lil bit of delay, a snowstorm is taking over the area throughout Sunday. I just came over [...]

Latvian national ice hockey team and KHL‘s Dinamo Riga goaltender Edgars Masalskis is out for 3 months with a broken ankle.. And shoot, I mean how lame is that? Looks like homeboy got into a street fight last night in Old Town.. Details of the accident are still unclear, no ambulance called, no cops, none [...]

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 [...]