28 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Sarp Erdag In: Activities
Today, at the event hosted by the MIP School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, I attended a conference given by the famous management guru C.K. Prahalad. Although I am saying he is famous, I did not know him before
In the workshop, C.K. gave examples to a bunch of new business models and [...]
22 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Sarp Erdag In: Activities| Projects
I have started working on a little mashup which will be a web tool that helps people keep track of events around. Currently, I am working on Google Maps, Calendar and Authentication APIs integration.
My initial tryout will be on using the tool as an event and news portal for Web 2.0 enthusiasts. That is; a [...]
16 Sep, 2008
Posted by: Sarp Erdag In: Activities| Cool stuff| World Wide Web
I have been following the guys at Carsonified for some time and here is their latest attraction.
They are giving a free ticket to ALL Carsonified 2009 events that include Future of Web Design, Future of Web Apps, Future of Mobile, Fuel and all Carson Workshops. They are also covering the hotel expenses, giving a backstage [...]
08 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Sarp Erdag In: Activities| Software Development
I spent today, attending RiaTalks which has been a really nice day of seminars focusing on Rich Internet Applications, at Bahcesehir University. Although the general organization was not perfect, I believe the speakers and the followers were able to communicate well with each other.
There were two different conference rooms assigned for the event. One room [...]
It has been just 2 hours since my arrival at the crowded highways of Istanbul, from my 4 day little holiday in Artur, Ayvalik. Considering the all summer long holiday periods I used to spend in this town when I was a child, this time’s visit was a really short one.
Artur is a holiday village [...]
29 Jul, 2008
Posted by: Sarp Erdag In: Activities| World Wide Web
A comment to my previous blog post corrected my schedule about attending the RiaTalks conference at Bahcesehir University on 8 and 9th of August 2008. The conference is sponsored by various technology companies and charities of Turkey and I believe it will be a nice meet-up of synergy and knowledge sharing. Below are the list [...]
2 days ago, I have returned back home and now spending time relaxing with the nice weather here in Istanbul. After so much rain in Como, this feels like heaven In the free-time I have re-structured and coded the messaging system of Kuizz.com. With the help of jQuery, now it is working much faster [...]
I have always liked M. Night Shyamalan’s mystic, apocalyptic, end-of-the world style movies. Although I think the quality of movies of Shyamalan are in a decline, I wasn’t expecting such a disaster. Extremely bad acting, actors responding weirdly and unnaturally to the events and non-sense character behaviors, combined with a stupid ending… Shyalaman found a [...]
I am looking for to attend some of the exciting web technologies related events that are going to take place around Europe. The earliest one is actually this weekend, RiaTalks, that is going to be hosted by Bahcesehir University. Unfortunately, I will be missing this one since I have to still stay in Italy until [...]
7 hours ago, with all the Turkish students of Polimi Como, we gathered in Touring Cafe on the right side of Piazza Cavour, to watch the EURO 2008 quarter final match between Croatia and Turkey. In the 118th minute, all of our excitement was killed by Croatia’s goal, but right after, just in the last [...]
