Monday, August 28, 2006

Avanti amici, the adventure has just begun :)

to Marko, Frank & family, Barbara, Marina and all the friends and people that believe and appreciate the beauty of exploration and creativity

Ewidi was never going to be easy; when the idea came to me a couple of years ago i knew it, and i still know it; But it was one of those ideas that deserved to be followed until the very end because in that idea i felt balance, i felt beauty, i felt usefulness;

beautiful things are not always successful, sometimes they are ignored; beautiful flowers die in winter without eyes to marvel at them; thats not the destiny of Ewidi though because Ewidi was from the beginning a seed; a seed with the potential to change, to evolve, to adapt; In these times more than ever there is nothing permanent, change is a feature of modern society and the success and failure of a project depends on the fashions and the demands of the people of this planet. Thats why we have to listen, like in theater, where the success of a play depends on the actors listening to each other, making their reactions feel true; in the same way we have to listen to the currents of the planet so that when we navigate the ewidi ship we can steer it in the right direction;

Ewidi is the bone of a ship, it was intended to be fast, and it is, it was intended to reach all parts of the world, and it does, it was intended to be easy to drive, and it is, it was intended to be useful, and it is as well; It was intended to be original and most people agree that it is;

Simply it is not the only ship in the ocean, there are many other ships, but the ocean is large and deep, it contains many unexplored territories and the first thing one must have to discover new places is patience; We have to listen to the winds, we have to listen patiently, we have to slowly keep adding things to our ship that make it stronger and even more useful, all of that taking care at the same time of our daily jobs that provide food and security for our people;

This ocean is so large...................., will we ever reach the horizon we search for... in itself navigating this ocean is a privilege , a joy, but at the same time, i believe this ship has a team good enough to reach a horizon, i just dont know where or when, but uncertainty is a feature of life that i have very much accepted since long ago, it is in the very fabric of life, it is part of it, cannot be separated from it; Ewidi was intended to be a very simple, useful and quick tool that connected people from all cultures and backgrounds, not requiring filling profiles or personal data registration forms, not requiring even to have an email, all that we have done, and the way in which some people have already used ewidi demonstrates that the idea works;

but again, the ocean is large, the amount of ships is large, and from the coastline the people have difficulty seeing our ship; at the moment they can only see with their binoculars the biggest ships that carry huge flags (marketing); they hardly notice the small ewidi that just a week ago launched itself seriously to the waters; but in the same way that there are 1000 paths to get to Rome, they are a thousand ways of being noticed more by the people that watch from the coastline;

We will shape our ship, we will adapt it to the winds, to the changing conditions and as long as it keeps being simple, quick, global, useful and helps people connect, it will keep being Ewidi for Ewidi is the seed of Exploration, of wonder, of imagination, of dream, of interaction and communication, it is the beginning of many projects that are one and the same, the natural project of any human being.....pushing boundaries, creating, reaching horizons beyond which nothing is known...
......beyond which the tears of the sun blend with marvellous things....never seen before....

Javi

Saturday, August 26, 2006

greetings from Ideami

now finally i managed to login as ideami and write as ideami :) Welcome everybody to Ewidi's blog and to http://www.ewidi.com
Other languages:
chinese: http://www.ewidi.com/index.php?gp_lang=chi
Japanese : http://www.ewidi.com/index.php?gp_lang=jpn
Indonesian : http://www.ewidi.com/index.php?gp_lang=ind
... etc 25 in total so far

Macedonan, Hungarian and Polish may be the next ones in the list :)

if you would like to help Ewidi translating its phrases to your language please write us a comment here or in the feedback options of Ewidi :)

all best :)
Ideami

London, Orkut and Brasil

hi from london :) everything going well in here, a bit tired for not sleeping too much but i will survive :) yesterday i read on the net that the famous Orkut is indeed something that was created by Google, but the most interesting thing about it is that apparently they have 20 million users and almost all of them are from Brasil!!! the article said (i have to find the URL) that Orkut didnt succeed in becoming a market leader but they managed to get lots of users, 20 million as a say, the peculiar thing is that most of them are from Brasil, at least this demonstrates that it is possible to produce an snowball effect in just 1 big country and reach millions of users just there; many greetings from a cloudy london morning :)
Ideami

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Welcome to Ewidi :)

Welcome to this blog, in here we will be discussing ideas, moving and improving ewidi step by step :) thank you for your contributions :)
The ewidi team :)

www.ewidi.com
Publish, search, interact,
all these possibilities and much more:
* professionals contacting other professionals about a specific topic
* finding people to organize a trip
* improvising gatherings or meetings
* announcing an event that will take place soon
* proposing creative projects to people around the world
* learning other languages, writing in foreign characters
* organizing excursions
* social volunteering
* finding people to talk about a topic
* finding and offering jobs
* organizing associations or clubs (choirs, football teams, etc)
* finding experts in medical topics
* finding people that have notes for an exam
* exchanging something (stamps etc)
* organizing sport events
* creating fan clubs
* finding a person through the name
* finding or offering advice about something
* finding freelancers or offering yourself as a freelancer
* sending greetings to friends
* finding accomodation
* offering accomodation
* contacting other people around the world
* finding new ideas (exploration functions)
* etc etc, the possibilites are as broad as your imagination