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slides from webcamp

Published on July 14, 2008 in english, personal and technology. 5 Comments

I uploaded my slides for the yahoo widgets presentation in Webcamp.ro in slideshare, but I seem to be unable to make a presentation that works here:

Of course, while i make this work, you can always download the PPT directly here

It was a really good event! Maybe a bit too “marketing” for my taste at the beginning, but then it went really nice. The best of all: the people of course! Starting with those who attended, that asked questions afterwards, and that sent me mail or IMs to ask questions about widgets… and ending up with my wonderfulous hosts Bobby, Bogdan, Maria and Andreea. Thanks a lot to all for making this a great experience! :)

Oh! and also: last time I was in Bucharest I was in the same area my hotel was this time, but couldn’t find any decent place to go out. Turns out on top of the old building of the National Theatre, right next to where i was, there’s this AWESOME terrace, with open-air tables, benches, paintings of different artists lying on the walls… and the music was just perfect! Thanks Maria for the tip! :)

(now, if only i could find some photos of the place…)

talking at Webcamp08 in Romania

Published on July 1, 2008 in english, personal and technology. 10 Comments

got a presentation to give next week at Webcamp talking about mobile development (courtesy of YDN). They have tracks on SEO, widgets and Web 3.0 (are we on 3.0 already?), but I think the one I’m more interested in is on Romanian-specific web issues… It’s always good to hear how different countries have got their own special highs and lows in the web industry (and hopefully i can find some people to talk about mobile too, as I don’t know that much about the specific situation in Romania!)

So, if anybody is around Bucharest (you know, by chance) and wants to check it out… ping me!

webcamp logo

hackday time

Published on June 25, 2008 in english, mobile, personal and programancy. 0 Comments

wow! this week is being pretty intense: first we had BBC mashed event, today was the searchmonkey hacking evening and tomorrow is our internal Yahoo! hackday.

Lots of things to do, little time to post…

I did a Fireagle widget hack in Mashed, that I couldn’t get completely running because I started playing with the authentication (trying to make oauth work with only curl) and with Ant scripts to verify/lint/deploy both XML and PHP files (pretty sweet stuff!) Will post info as soon as I can

I was only briefly at the hack evening today, but managed to check the talk, chat with a couple of nice people from ITV and do a formula 1 monkey to extract info from eurosport pages and present it alongside search results. I think it looks nice:

searchmonkey - formula 1 pilot info

thought-provoking quote: social surplus

Published on April 30, 2008 in english and personal. 1 Comment
So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia […] represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. […] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that’s 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.

From Clay Shirky’s blog (author of “Here comes everybody”)

el tiempo es relativo…

Published on April 28, 2008 in español, personal and technology. 1 Comment

… como demuestra el hecho que desde que los de TED pusieron las charlas descargables directamente al IPod, el trayecto de autobus a la oficina es mucho mas corto…

london bus

un poco mas de autobombo

Published on February 25, 2008 in español and personal. 0 Comments

Que para eso sirven los blogs, no?

Link a la entrevista del Maligno dentro de la serie Informaticos por Londres

Las cosas que tiene que hacer uno por su compi de piso…

de mudanzas

Published on February 17, 2008 in español, mobile, personal and technology. 1 Comment

como ya se ha encargado de comentar el maligno hemos estado de mudanzas estos dias. Hemos tenido un poco de lio buscado sitio, moviendo cozas, decorando y demases pero esto ya empieza a parecer un poco una casa (con algunas cajas y una bandera de los maiden en el salon, pero una casa al fin y al cabo).

Para los aventureros que de cuando en cuando se dejan caer para visitar, que sepais que estamos en Pimlico, tenemos vistas al rio y como siempre estais mas que bienvenidos (siempre que traigais jamon) ;P

Entre la mudanza, viajes de curro, viajes no de curro y demas boberias, no me ha dado tiempo a escribir nada (ni emails personales, como ya sabeis algunos) Eso si, voy a aprovechar que hoy tocaba escribir para comentar que no somos los unicos que estamos de mudanzas:

PCWorld: T-Mobile Dumps Google in Europe for Yahoo

Para los que no entendais euskera: la noticia viene a decir que TMobile acaba de firmar con Yahoo para cambiar el motor de busqueda de Web’n'walk (su plataforma movil) de Google a Yahoo OneSearch. La importancia del asunto no es solo en temas de tener mayor numero de usuarios y de visibilidad, sino que ademas es la primera vez que una operadora pega el cambiazo en temas de mobile… y encima dejando Google, claro, que tiene su intringulis…

Y es que el mundo mobile esta que se sale con los anuncios… y mas que nos espera este anyo! A ver si el tiempo me deja y ponemos otro post sobre los ultimos anuncios del 3GSM en Barcelona de la semana pasada…

En fin, espero que me perdoneis el momento “corporate publicity” pero… es que nos hemos dado un curro que no veas para sacar TMobile adelante, asi que despues de lo que han trabajado los integrantes del equipo, tanto en London, como en Sunnyvale, como en Hamburgo, como en Bangalore… que menos que estar orgullosos! Es que son unos crases! :)

Y como se suele decir: seguiremos informando! ;)

starting the year

Published on January 12, 2008 in english and personal. 4 Comments

So, as this is my first weekend of the year in which I have both some free time and a proper Internet connection, I thought about writing an update on how my year is starting. So far in this 2008 I have:

So far this year looks exciting… how about yours? Hope you’re also up to a good start! };)

get some hot stuff for Xmas… and support Human Care International

Published on December 18, 2007 in english, humour and personal. 2 Comments

Tradition says people tend to feel more attracted to nice actions and helping others as Christmas gets nearer. It’s just that time of the year. And that applies for all of us geeks of the world too. But you don’t often have the opportunity to get that doing-good feeling and geeky satisfaction at the same time…

But not anymore! For we bring you… THE TORRID MVP CALENDAR 2008

torrid mvp calendar preview
Featuring: Lluis Franco, Chico Maravillas, Miguel Jiménez, Fernanbanjo, Damisela Salgado, Unai Zorrilla, Ivan González, Paniagua, McPegasus, Rodrigo Corral, José Manuel Alarcón, Benjamín Mateos & El Maligno

Who said that being a hardcore nerd is not compatible with being sexy? In this calendar, you will find 13 hard men accustomed to hard work with silicon (devices, it’s understood). They left aside their computers to join for this photo session and show you what they’re made of! They strike poses that will really bring you the WOW effect! (or at least, we hope, make you smile)

All the benefits from the sales of the calendar will go to help the NGO Human Care International, for their projects in New Delhi.

human care international - logo

So, are you feeling the heat yet? If so, hurry up because this is a very limited edition of just 500 calendars! If you want to book yours, send an email to calendariotorrido@informatica64.com with the following data:

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Name, surname and postal address
remember to include street, flat number, postcode, city, country, …
Number of copies
as many as you want! the more the merrier!
Contact phone
just in case…

For payment, please do a bank transfer to the account below, and remember to put your name in the concept!

bank: La Caixa
account number: 2100 3843 35 0200028123

NOTE: email us if you need SWIFT/BIC for international transfers!

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So… come on! Collaborate with us! Buy your calendars to decorate your office, your association, your bedroom, your nights, your days… Give it as a present to a friend, significant other, family or pointy haired boss… and do your good deed of this Christmas!!! }:)

PS: We want to thank Microsoft and the MVP program for providing us with room and materials to shoot this! Thanks a lot Cristina! And thanks a lot Sean! }:)

anybody wants to study abroad?

Published on December 13, 2007 in english, ieee and personal. 0 Comments

for those of you interested in studying a Master abroad, here’s some info a friend of the IEEE sent me about their new tuition-fee-free program at KTH Stockholm

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Dear Students,

I would like draw your attention to a two-year international
English-language M.Sc. program in Network Services and Systems, given at
KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden. The
program is highly selective and demanding, and it prepares students for
research or industrial careers in this dynamic, challenging and rapidly
growing field of engineering. There are opportunities for students who
achieve exceptionally well to continue with doctoral studies at KTH.

KTH is one of the leading technical universities in Europe, and
Stockholm consistently ranks as one of the most livable cities in the
world.
Students who are admitted to the program may study *without tuition*. We
had more than 200 applications this year for twenty seats. The next
round of the program starts in late August 2008 and the application
deadline is February 1, 2008.

Please find a flyer with further details attached (also available at
http://www.ee.kth.se/lcn/Flyer.htm). Should you have a question or
comment, please get back to me.

Sincerely,

Gunnar Karlsson
Professor
KTH EE/LCN - 100 44 Stockholm - Sweden

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Feel free to pass it around if you know people who may be interested! As a personal note, I have to say the KTH is a cool place, with a very nice environment and in a beautiful city so… give it a try! }:)

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