Makeweekend

We spotted an interesting interview with Joi Of Neoteny Labs Speaks on his new role at the MIT Media Lab. Here are a few snippets from his interview in the Asian Scientist. You have spawned a long list of successful initiatives that include Creative Commons, Technocrati, Flickr and Mozilla Foundation. You obviously have an eye [...]

We spotted an interesting interview with Joi Of Neoteny Labs Speaks on his new role at the MIT Media Lab. Here are a few snippets from his interview in the Asian Scientist. You have spawned a long list of successful initiatives that include Creative Commons, Technocrati, Flickr and Mozilla Foundation. You obviously have an eye [...]

In November, we did an exciting Urekaweekend on the theme of social enterprise. The Urekaweekend was hosted by UCTI APIIT in Technology Park. The space was a blast to work in as they had many glass breakout rooms for the participants to split out into working groups. Joining us for this weekend were a number [...]

The weekend that was Oh how time flies, its already a week later- and i meant to get this out on Monday. Well anyway its just a simple thank you for making the time and coming to the Urekaweekend Facebook Developer Garage KL. We hope you had a much fun attending as we did hosting. [...]

Urekaweekend 7 – Designing Social Innovation in collaboration with think-lab’s design conference was a pleasant change of pase from the normally very tech centric Urekaweekend’s that we have been hosting. It was a 2 day affair – day one conducted by the think-labbers focusing applying a design thinking approach towards solving a number of social [...]

Expn$e The People: Muhammad Hijazi, Dg Ku Zuraidah, Dila Zamry The Challenge: Tracking financial information is an important part of our daily lives, but many of us don’t do it because it’s not fun and it’s time consuming. The Idea: To incentivize people to track their financial information by combining tracking with social networking applicaitons [...]

So what do you do when you dont have a credit card and want to register for urekaweekend? well there is the Other payment method – a little known button at the bottom of the registration process First you select your ticket type Then you fill in your details and all the way at the [...]

Here are some of the feedbacks that we got from participants of Urekaweekend 6:- “The possibility to actually create even a simple version of awesomeness is what makes Urekaweekend a slightly different kind of weekend. Thinking is cool, but having people around you to bounce ideas around and give real feedback, all of you encouraged [...]

On the 20th to the 22nd of september we ran urekaweekend5 and the focus this time around was mapping – learning how to use it and developing applications that would be location relevant. The main participants of this weekend were students of the KPTM in Cheras and some entrepreneurs from KL. Thanks to Plug and [...]

So you participated in urekaweekend, did you enjoy yourself? did you manage to get stuff done? well we would like to know what you thought of it so we can make the next one more awesome. Did i mention that filling in the form below entitles you to getting foldees cards. Make sure to fill [...]