Monthly Archives: October 2009

Northern Europe trip, week 2

Chris and I were in both Helsinki and St. Peterburg last week. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Chris and Jyri were giving workshops to various clients in Helsinki. I was ensuring that our Russian Visas would be ready, and re-visiting folks from the FinnFacts tour from the week before On Thursday morning, we took the [...]

Extra extra: making the news in Finland

Following Chris’s talk at MindTrek last week, he was interviewed and written about in one of the Finnish newspapers: Aamulehti! Sadly the article is all in Finnish! I’ve been told that it recaps the points he was making in his talk, “Identity is the Platform.” But if anyone reads Finnish and would like to provide [...]

Weekend in Helsinki

I created an interactive map of the places we visited this past weekend in Helsinki (Oct 3–4, 2009). If you click on a route or landmark, you can learn more about what we did there and how it was part of our weekend walking tour of Helsinki! Unfortunately, it’s hard to navigate our exact route [...]

Finland, week 1

Chris and I have been in Finland for about a week now. I participated in the FinnFacts blogger tour (hearing about various web 2.0 startups in Finland). And Chris has been putting on workshops and giving talks. Until this weekend, we had very little free time. Last week we arrived in Helsinki on Sunday, September [...]