Around the beginning of this millennia I was introduced by a friend to an amazing publicity campaing for BMW called The Hire, featuring Clive Owen. I guess my movie appreciation skills weren’t as refined as I think they are now, but these short features stuck with me. And I’m proud of it.
While watching TV just now I came across SAPO’s new Internet service campaign, and it puzzled me how is it possible that a major portuguese technology company spends their money on creative teams that don’t even have the credit to be called creative. Please, judge it yourselves.
SAPO Fibra Spot TV (I just noticed they’ve shut the campaign down, probably because it’s just over, but you can still get the video from YouTube — Edited on June 14, 2010)
I guess that for some people, in times of crisis even our imagination must be used lightly.
O SAPO Codebits é um concurso de programação para a Web, feito para o melhor talento português, com características muito especiais e que o diferenciam de outros eventos. Não tem regras, promove um ambiente muito informal e muito descontraído, e tenta criar as condições necessárias para que sobressaiam a criatividade e a inovação nos participantes. Para mais informações consultem a nossa página Wiki em: http://saber.sapo.pt/wiki/SAPO_Codebits.
From Sapo‘s headquarters comes another great initiative, most similar to Yahoo‘s Hackday. A programming contest for Portugal’s geekiest nerds. The event is completely free, but limited to 400 handpicked lucky geeks.
Go on and register now, what are you waiting for? I’ve already submitted my application, let’s hope I’ll be there.
Just wanted to say that I’ll be attending the Web 2.0 Expo event in Berlin, from the 5th to the 8th of November. This will most surely be an exciting event featuring mini-events such as Workshops, Conferences, a sort of BarCamp called Web2Open and something that I’m pretty curious about, an Ignite event on which whoever wants to make a presentation, he or she must do it with 20 slides each with 15 seconds duration, which makes a 5 minute keynote.
A couple of Portuguese guys that I met during the BarCampPortugal2007 are going to moderate a certain respective couple of conferences. I’m talking about Fred Oliveira, founder (amongst other main roles) of the startup Webreakstuff, who will lead a Design and User Experience panel and Pedro Custódio, from Sapo, who will be talking about “Conversational Design“.
I’ll try to document the whole event live on this blog, with some fancy photos!
