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the fourth instalment of BarCamp Vienna is just around the corner - next saturday, 26th of january @ WerkzeugH. goto barcamp.at for details & list of attendees. see you there!

while the original BarCamp has been celebrating its second anniversary this weekend at Socialtext’s offices in Palo Alto (here is a video-interview with some of the founders), Vienna will happily hold its third installment of the unconference-format as early as september 29th/30th. the list of attendance already looks very promising…

on July 6th-8th, Adobe is hosting iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco, a BarCamp-styled gathering “to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched to the public.”. more than 120 developers have already signed up, temporarily establishing the most highest iPhone/person-density on the globe there’s also some sweet irony since Adobe is hosting the event while their Flash (Lite)-platform initially won’t be supported by iPhone.

if you’re in Vienna or surroundings, lets meet at tomorrows BarCamp Vienna 2007! taking place at WerkzeugH, we’re starting at 10am with two session-tracks + catering + afterparty at 7pm. the attendance - of course - is free, as are the fresh BarCamp-shirts I got from Merchzilla yesterday (kudos for sponsoring go to Super-Fi)…

Thanks to Helge, the next instalment of Barcamp Vienna is going to be on Sunday, june 10th 2007 @ WerkzeugH! See you there!

it’s probably a bit early to mention, but I just discovered that there’ll be a BarCamp in Carinthia (Austria) in February 2007. nice to see this virus spreading over Austria…

Igor Lebovic demos Calorie-Count.com, a weight-tracker/diet-tool (partly) developed in Austria and recently sold to About.com (owned by the New York Times). after being online for three years, Calorie-Count.com attracts 24mio pageviews per month. I didn’t try it out yet, but according to Igor the site features an intelligent recipe-parser, allowing users to enter ingridients in full text. if you’re interested in health-related services, be sure to check out gimme20 as well, a community-emphasizing weight- & workout-tracker.

at Barcamp, Walter Rafelsberger just did a nice demo of Rhizome Navigation, an application framework for building 3D-interfaces for navigating statistical data like web-server logs (similar to Digg’s swarm-feature) or user-attention data. try out the Java-frontend, download the demo or see this analysis of austria’s political parties’ manifestos using Rhizome Navigation.

…just started an hour ago… check flickr for photos tagged barcampvienna and the Wiki for the schedule!

just a quick reminder: Vienna’s very first Barcamp is going to take place in about one week - saturday, sept. 30th., 10am - at the One Smartspace (thx 2 One!). if you’re in town and want to hang out with the geeks, feel free to join us! [Barcamps are ad-hoc (un-)conferences/meetups without static agendas, everyone is welcome to speak]. to get involved, visit the wiki! btw, the whole event will be video-taped and made available online soon after…