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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

want to intern at yahoo mobile?

Published on May 28, 2008 in english and technology. 1 Comment

just a quick note/heads-up that Yahoo! Mobile team is interviewing for their summer internships. There are still possibilities of getting your CV in so if you’re an university student and you’re interested in working with our team to make oneSearch kick axx big time in Europe, I think it’s worth to send me your CV (check my mail in the “about” section!)

There are openings for Partner Management and Marketing departments, if you are into that kind of thing… but what I wanted to advertise is our very own opening for a Software Engineering Intern. No previous big mobile software experience required, but we value strong computer science background, initiative to learn new things (such as how to process and index big amounts of data using things like Hadoop), love for programming and good music taste (this last one is optional, I guess)

So, sounds like you? Then… where’s that CV? :)

no juegues con Phun!

Published on May 8, 2008 in español and technology. 1 Comment

Si estas aun en horario de trabajo, por favor no sigas este link ni veas este video…

y por supuesto ni se te ocurra mirar otras cosas que la gente esta haciendo con Phun, “a 2D physics sandbox”… impresionante!

Esto es lo mas entretenido que he visto para ensenyar fisica desde el Portal y el jueguecillo flash ese del tipo que va en trineo (que por cierto… alguien sabe como se llamaba?)

nota: se me olvidaba… gracias Diego por pasarmelo! :)

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

random thoughts on mobile content

Published on April 18, 2008 in english, mobile and technology. 0 Comments

Cathy sent me a doc with recent coverage about OverTheAir that includes this interview with Matthew, the master of all things mobile at BBC ;)

Very interesting read (especially if you’re looking into “aggregating mobile content”, or however they call it these days)

Interview: Matthew Postgate (via MocoNews)

This actually reminds me of some other interesting thing I bumped into when talking with a couple of operators that have integrated oneSearch in their portals. As most of you know, until not-so-long most operators had closed portals (what were usually called “walled gardens”) with syndicated content (via several of the beforementioned “mobile content aggregator” deals). However, since recently, they’re all (*ejem* almost) switching to offer open Internet access, and integrate the internet search right on their decks (via Google mobile search, Microsoft Live Mobile, Yahoo oneSearch or even other parties like Medio)

The interesting thing is that even though that trend has been going on for I’d say 1-2 years, when you look at some of these operators’ top queries, it really seems like they’re mostly for in-portal content! Poetically speaking, even though the “garden” is not “walled” anymore, people are still mostly staying in!

open cage

I guess it’s kind of good news for people whose business model is based on selling mobile content but… I guess also not so good for getting there in terms of having an “open” mobile web ecosystem as good and full of interest as the desktop web counterpart. Or maybe it’s just a question of educating the users to know what’s out there and wait for more to come?

Would love to hear your oppinions on this…

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! ;)

smartphone market evolution

Published on December 17, 2007 in english and technology. 0 Comments

These figures from the last Symbian Market Roundups [pdf] show a bit of the effect some of the recent launches are having in the smartphone market… look and compare with those of last year:

Smartphone stats Q32007:

smartphone market share 2007

Smartphone stats 2006:

smartphone market share 2006

Some of the things that may draw your attention:

  • The iPhone taking North America by storm (amazing for a product with less than one year existence)
  • Slightly smaller presence of Linux devices in Japan, slightly bigger in EMEA (I have to check whether this includes the Nokia N770s and N8xxs as “smartphones”, which may explain it)
  • Snif! Poor Palm! Snif! }:/
  • Overall, the CRUSHING majority of Symbian devices (anywhere that is not North America, that is) So, for (global)market dominance, don’t forget to run on Symbian! }:P

Also, to add to the thinking: this graphs only relate to new smartphones (that means: those who do more than calls and SMSes), with shipping numbers, as you can see in the first graph, in the order of thirtysomething millions… whereas the global phone market moves in the order of billions of devices. So even though these mark the trend… they’re still little in comparison with the overall existing numbers

But… give them a year or two… };)

So, what do you think? Will Linux take the mobile market soon? Will the iPhone crush MS WinMobile and RIM Blackberry? Will we finally come into our senses and realize phones are evil devices and we should go back to smoke signals?

robots musicales

Published on December 7, 2007 in español, music and technology. 2 Comments

Me mandaba hoy mi amiga Clarisa un link a esta noticia de el pais sobre un robot que toca el violin y justo me ha pillado a punto de enviar una noticia sobre esta cosa tan graciosa que ha salido a la venta hoy…

Hoy Gibson sacaba la Robot Guitar! Oh yeah! Mirad y babead!

Podeis ver el resto de videos en el canal de Gibson en YouTube. Impresionante, ¿no? Si alguien me estaba buscando un regalo de Reyes… ejem… };P

Pero vamos, Clarisa, se pongan como se pongan los robots y por mucha guitarra que se afine sola que salga… creo que todavia queda un trechito para que puedan hacer ESTO };)

momento tecnicoless: sony ericsson W1i

Published on December 3, 2007 in español, humour and technology. 4 Comments

Estaba yo tan tranquilo hoy releyendo mis 500 noticias sobre moviles (si, mi reader echa chispas si lo dejas un par de dias sin atencion) cuando me veo que hay unos cuantos blogs haciendose eco de un nuevo modelo de Sony Ericsson

el modelito en cuestion

Y claro, en cuanto sale algun nuevo concepto, rapidamente los sites empiezan a hacerse eco del asunto… y en esta epoca de informacion acelerada ya sabeis que no hay tiempo para verificar nada! Asi que pese a que a la gente le escama “que Sony Ericsson se pase a Windows Mobile”… ahi queda la noticia };P

Pero vamos a ver, Maximus, alma de cantaro, no es solo que lleve Windows Mobile, es que… esas especificaciones!

  • Soporte “oct-band” o algo asi (vamos, que opera en ocho bandas) GSM usa generalmente 900 y 1800Mhz, menos en USA y Canada, que usan 850 y 1900 (de ahi los telefonos quad-band). Algunos paises (veanse paises escandinavos y algunos en sudamerica) usan tambien las de 400 y 450… pero ya! no hay telefono que soporte 8 bandas de GSM porque nadie opera en 8 bandas!
  • Lo de la pantalla de 2048×1024 mejor ni hablamos… y ademas tactil! (sera multitouch?)
  • “3G con 3.2 mega pixeles activos”, aqui creo que el chino que escribiera esto se hizo un lio entre el 3G y la camara de videoconferencia… pero da igual, se pone tambien
  • “Optica Carl Ceiss”… esto debe ser como cuando te vas al mercadillo a comprar las zapatillas Abidas o algo asi. Es de similar calidad, pero con otra etiqueta
  • y para terminar… un procesador Intel de 2Ghz! Sera Core Duo? Tiene la ventaja que gracias al tamaño de ventilador que le habran puesto al movil entre esto y la pantalla tactil anterior, puedes usarlo para refrescarte en los meses de verano

En fin… que vista la lista de noticias que salen ultimamente, estoy por convencer a Chema el mes que viene cuando estemos en London para hacernos un podcast estilo “Se lo que hicisteis” pero de noticias de tecnologia…

Los tecnicoless se reproducen pero… recordad que vosotros sois mas fuertes! utilizad vuestro propio cerebro! Hace poco recomende a un monton de amigos que se leyeran el articulo “The outsourced brain”… y ahora os lo recomiendo a vosotros. Puedes basar muchisimas cosas en “la mente externa”, pero no te la creas a pies juntillas. Esta bien tener datos en la red pero aquí, como en la tele, no todo lo que se dice es verdad! };P

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