Date: April 8, 2010

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iPhone vs. Android 2010 conference was the very first smart mobile conference organized for mobile developers, designers, marketers, and businessmen with all major representatives from the industry. It was not only a successful event, but it was preceded and followed by enthusiastic social media conversations and regular media interest. This is what it looked like:

Check out the teaser videos of the conference: http://www.youtube.com/ivsa2010

Those who read the kvazibarki blog know about Oli Broom. The 29 -year-old “everyman” on a solo and unsupported bicycle life experience from London, UK to Brisbane, Australia. We met the Londoner in Budapest, Hungary and immediately started to follow him on his challenging 14 months bike journey and the unexpected (but cool) cricket games. Cycling to the Ashes motivated us to document/film this unique round-the-world bike tour.

We decided to find people like us all over the world, who would film the project. Having people shoot for us in numerous countries from Turkey to India, we are now setting out on our journey to Australia to shoot the finale of the movie.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Film-Until-The-Ashes/185501094990?v=wall

Support our work at http://webackyou.com/cycling-to-the-ashes/

Jöttszembe is our pilot project, an urban community experiment with which we are trying to show people how they may benefit from the smallest interactions they make during the day walking, biking, or driving from A to B. We have now established the blog and are continuously hiring people to blog for us, whereas we are also producing content, blog posts, videos, interviews etc.

Our aim is to reach a critical mass of people who dare be nice with, smile at and look fellow people in the eye at any occasion of their everyday encounters. Our activity is backed by all sorts of guerilla activities and is planned to be expanded from Budapest to other major towns of Hungary.

Wanna join us? Contact us at info[at]speakeasyproject[dot]com

1. Kvázibárki project is the first Speak EP, a bilingual (English-Hungrian) videoblog. We strongly believe that complaining and always criticizing is way too easy and leads nowhere. It is also boring!  We also believe that anyone can change his/her circumstances by simple actions. This site wants to encourage those who are ready to act/create/inspire by simple actions and set an example to those who believe or act like changing your own reality was impossible. We are not slaves of the world of our reality. We create reality every second!

2. Film Until The Ashes emerged from a short kvazibarki video blog interview and a 20k cycle ride with Oli Broom. He is a 29 -year-old everyman  who is on a ca. 25,000 km solo and unsupported bicycle life experience from London (left on 10 October 2009) to Brisbane Cricket Ground (The Gabba, in Australia) in time to see England play Australia in the first Ashes Test Match of the 2010/11 series, in November 2010. On a bike with his home and a cricket bat. Oli is in Malaysia at the moment with 20 countries behind him. FUTA documentary project is an experiment on a collaborative way of filmmaking around the world with the volunteer help of filmmakers from London, Sofia, Istanbul, India, Bangladesh and we are shooting in Kuala Lumpur next Wednesday. How cool is that? On no real budget following a biker around the world.

We raised and saved up just enough just enough for 2 tickets to Australia to film the story again at the best possible moment. Stay tuned we are documenting Oli’s final countdown in November 2010. As the title correctly suggests Film Until The Ashes.
Please also see the site of our London based fundraising campaign on webackyou as well. Nice home made cider and other cool perk prices for any donations

This other clip is a teaser we made for Sky Sport 1 on a program called Cricket AM not long ago.

At company meetings, which are more like friendly workshops, we give each other home work. Last time, we were to collect five projects we would like to contribute to.

Dear Laci, my friend and colleague, and also my dear readers, let us see if we share some interests. Here comes my home work, my 5-list, well, one of them. These are projects, organizations, brands I would love doing communications for, right now:

1. Tipton. Sounds familiar? Our friend, an inventor, a Hungairan-American-Polish guy living now in Budapest, Zack Milaskey does what he loves and does best, eyewear. They are called Tipton. Real lifestyle shit put together piece by piece in his small Belgrád rakpart studio and worn all over the world. To create his unique, state-of-the-art frames, he uses materials like old super8 movie tapes, vinyl records that he presses himself, lots of other shits, but mostly, imagination. He is the kind of self-made guy, still in the making, who can be anything, but even if he does not, he still remains cool by our standards and not because Elton John also wears his frames. Working for and with him is not so much of a dream anymore, in September, we are putting on our second mutual project, a real Tipton eyewear experience with lots of vinyl and fun. Something like this:

2. Wikileaks. I bumped into them when I was looking for some social media use examples for an introductory presentation I held before a bunch of NATO press officers a few months ago. The infamous video, named “Collateral” had been just leaked by them and came in handy at the time.  I have no idea, if we could be any use for them, but I get very enthusiastic about the stuff they do. They open governments. How cool is that, huh!? Wikileaks founder and director, Julian Assange has recently talked at TED about what Wikileaks does and why:

Supporting them may be one way of working for them. You can do it too. Time to open governments in Hungary for example is nearing pretty quickly, I guess….

3. PuliSpace. What-da-heck!? I have just found this project on the Internet, duh, where else!? I have always loved people wanting to go to Space or send stuff up there just to feel closer to the stars or maybe to themselves. This is what they say about their project on their website:

“The long term mission of Puli Space Technologies is to develop the required new techniques to routinely send spacecraft to the Moon, explore new frontiers and to provide quality services for forward-thinking investors interested in commercializing space.

But first we want to demonstrate our abilities by landing a self-made probe on the Moon by 2014 and thus complete the Google Lunar X PRIZE challenge. The Google Lunar X PRIZE aims to aid the next leap onto the Moon by awarding prizes from its 30 million dollar pool to the frist private companies successfully reaching the lunar surface, simply dubbed “Moon 2.0″.”

They already have 12 fans on Facebook. I am among them. Would love to see, if SpeakEasy can be any help in their communications.

4. iPhone vs. Android. This was a conference at the right place and time. The first one in Hungary. A love(&hate) project by Doransky and Krasznai, with our contribution. Not so much of a dream again, as this was one of SpeakEasy’s first commissions this year. I would love to continue and hope there will be a lot to say again in the mobile business soon. Sharing an office with Doransky and his company Peer Applications, there is continuous inspiration. Doing videos and press for them did not even compare to being their host for the conference.

5. Cocorosie. I hate concerts, yet boy, did I go to theirs yesterday!? Seeing and hearing them live was one of my dreams that this way came true. An easy one. So why would I like to work for them? That’s why:

+1. Laci, you only know what comes here, man. Can’t wait to see your 5-list on our blog.

Előadóként idén is részt vettem a kurzuson, habár az egyéb munkák miatt csak az előadásom napjára tudtam leutazni. A témám az online social media pr volt. Igyekeztem meggyőzni a hallgatóságot, hogy egy olyan dinamikusan fejlődő területtel van dolgunk, amivel a péer berkein belül is feltétlen számolni kell, illetve lehetőség szerint azonnal élni is az eszközeivel.

Íme az előadás, ami a témát is hitelesítendő egy közösségi prezentációs alkalmazásban készült:

A múlt héten publikussá vált a website-unk, amin azért még van mit szépítgetni, és folyamatosan dolgozunk is rajta. Tehát egyelőre ugyan csiszolatlanul és csak angol nyelven, de itt vagyunk!

Nem könnyű kitalálni és felépíteni egy céget, de mindenképpen izgalmas feladat. Ha minden igaz, ezen a blogon, egyéb szakmai jellegű bejegyzések mellett, néhány fontosabb tapasztalat erejéig majd erre is kitérünk.

Addig is munka. Speakeasy.