It’s been a crazy ride for us the past few days. We’re not talking about the American elections here. We’re talking about CitySPK Beta coming alive at last. Although we still have some work tightening up loose bolts here and there, we’ve gotten excellent feedback from the early testers. That means you!
Tell us what you think of CitySPK Beta. Whether you like it, you hate it, you found a bug, or it inspired you to start taking photos of your city. Please write us, email us, SMS, send us a video, fax us, send a smoke signal, or write it on a wall and send us the photo. We want your feedback. 

ENGLISH Une version beta du site sera disponible le 3 novembre. À vos listes de recommandations, des modifications seront toujours possibles jusqu’à la mise en ligne du 10 novembre. Pour envoyer vos suggestions écrivez à mcp@turbulent.ca

Devenir membre de CITÉSPK vous offre une foule d’avantages tels que :

• la sauvegarde de brouillons;
• la sauvegarde de messages reçus et envoyés;
• une page profil personnalisée;
• un espace pour téléverser et organiser vos photos;
• la possibilité de contribuer à CITÉSPK;
• vos informations déjà inscrites pour l’envoi de message;
• un réseau de correspondants CITÉSPK.

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The CITYSPEAK project, an online “poetry magnet” game for the Web and for mobile phones, is among the finalists at the Content 360° international competition, part of the MIPTV/MILIA 2006 in Cannes. This international co-production of Kung Fu Numerik, Turbulent Média (Montreal) and IP4U (Valenciennes) is one of the 24 projects that have been retained, amongst 181 entries from 23 countries, to compete in 6 categories covering the spectrum of digital innovation. MIPTV featuring MILIA is considered the world’s first audiovisual and digital content market.
CITYSPEAK is competing in the Web 2.0 : Next Generation Collaborative Web Concepts category, side by side with two British projects and a Dutch project. On April 6,  Ghassan Fayad, who conceived CITYSPEAK with multi-disciplinary artist Mat Donnelly, will take the stage of Cannes’ Palais des Festivals to defend his “virtual Babel” in front of a jury composed of producers from the BBC. The winner of this pitching session will be awarded a development grant of €15000 from the British public broadcaster. At the end of this development phase, the project will be considered for an official co-production with the BBC. The Fayad/Donnelly duo had already won, at the Open Source event of Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma, the Grand Prix Formule i development grand offered by the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fond, the Interactive Projects Lab from INIS, the Videographe, and Fjord Interactive Marketing.

CITYSPEAK invites an online community to contribute to a bank of photos depicting words from the urban landscape, including posters, billboards, graffiti, signs, cards, and to use them to compose messages and poems. “We invite internet users who are saturated with words and typography to express themselves through the urban centre’s vocabulary,” explains Ghassan Fayad. The collaborative Web space becomes like a virtual “fridge door” where visitors appropriate the language of their cities by manipulating the signs that surround them like poetry magnet tiles. CITYSPEAK is an entertaining extension of the connected citizen’s lifestyle: camera-equipped cell phones allow capturing signs and the Internet’s ubiquity allows sharing them and distributing the messages. With its enormous propagation potential, CITYSPEAK celebrates the imaginative disorder of our cities.