Dreamhack for Business
Posted on | November 20, 2008 |
A few weeks back I signed up for a really interesting event, 24 hour business camp. It’s an event created by Ted Valentin and inspired by Eric’s 24 hour dotcom and Mattias Järnhäll. The camp will consist of 70 entrepreneurs divided into smaller teams who in the beginning of next year all will go to an island in the archipelago outside of Stockholm to build a startup in 24 hours. When I tried to explain it over the phone the other day I ended calling it the Dreamhack for business which I consider a quite good parable. Although in a bit smaller scale.
On the 24hbc blog almost all the participators have presented themselves and their (very vague) ideas of what is to be created during the 24 hours. It’s going to be interesting to see how many of these teams that actually get a beta version up and running during the weekend. I’m not even sure we will. The event will also be sponsored by Mindpark and Bonnier amongst others.
So what are we doing then? First of all, we means myself and my usual partner in crime, David Kjelkerud. We have a lot of experience working together and have over the last two years been running an interaction agency called Physical Interaction Lab. I’m very glad having David on my team since he is both an excellent programmer and designer, a not so common and killer combination. Together we will try to build a service that currently goes under the name 11talks. 11talks is a place where text gets “talked” into podcasts. It will basically work as place where you can create podcast versions of your favorite blogs and magazines as well as subscribe to other “talkers” and their favorites. The service is very dependent on users and their collective or collaborative effort in translating the actual texts but after looking at sites like undertexter.se I think it might work even though the threshold is a bit high.
We are going to build the service on Google App Engine which I’m becoming quite used to by now. And my plan is to use as many open API’s as possible making our service work as glue to create a relevant point of interaction. We are already looking forward to the event and to start coding!
And also, if you’re going to the event don’t have an idea and want to join us, send me or David an e-mail explaining what you want to help us with.
Update: Seems like our team might be powered by one of the best web interaction designers I know. Not 100% yet but If this happens we have a good chance of creating something really cool during the 24 hours. Stay tuned!
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