Twitter Helped Create Palermo Valley - Argentina Start-up Central

Twitter, a social media platform, sparked amazing change over the past few years. We all know the Egyptian Revolution was single handily accelerated through the use of the micro-blogging platform. Twitter has the inherent power to unite because of its simplicity and accessibility. The creators of Palermo Valley, area just inside Bueno Aires, Argentina, used Twitter to gather the brightest tech start-up entrepreneurs. They organized events to unite the local technology community in Bueno Aires, the results were far beyond what they expected. Palermo Valley has a growing reputation to build an area much like that of Silicon Valley, flourishing with bright minds, great technological achievements, and willing investors.

With the use of social media, Santiago Siri and Vanesa Kolodziej, had over 60 people show up for their first event. This was their first attempt at building what is now Palermo Valley, a growing community of start-up and technology entrepreneurs, business, and marketing people; according to Antonio Altamirano of altamirano.org. They continue to use Twitter to organize regular events that brings together the technology experts of Bueno Aries. People often need reason, motivation, to gather and exchange ideas. I think the motivation here is to inspire the creation of a community of collaborators and share ideas to mentor others.

Working in groups, in teams, is important in any field of work, but it is even more important in software development. The methodology of Agile Software Development is, what I think, the em-bracers of Palermo Valley are trying embrace. Agile Software Development is, according to Deepti Mishra and Alok Mishra, a paradigm that is growing in popularity; it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. From personal experience, agile programming works; it promotes exchange of ideas, social interaction, and eventually a more complete result. Applications, products, and devices should never be developed by any one person; the collaboration between multiple people allow for a piece of software to have more than one identity, to contain the minds of multiple people. Palermo Valley creates a community of people that are willing to share ideas, in addition to bringing a highly advanced industry to Argentina.