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hackday time

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

want to intern at yahoo mobile?

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? :)

slides from OverTheAir hackfest

As usual, I forgot to post in advance, but I gave a couple of talks at the OverTheAir mobile hackfest organized by BBC and MoMoLondon. Really cool event, guys! As the overtheair people are submitting their slides to slideshare, I thought I could as well repost them here, in case anybody’s interested.

First is the intro slides to the widgets panel, that we shared with Nokia and Vodafone. Second is the slides to the developing widgets workshop itself.

P.S: before you comment: yes, I know the fonts are all made a mess… have to play more with this slideshare thing :P

de mudanzas

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! ;)