20080924 Cloud computing is the new social network

I somehow anticipated it when commenting about Techchrnnnnch‘s views about Google Chrome, but it’s now confirmed: Cloud computing is the new social network. Just take a look at this graph that I managed to produce with a couple of clicks and keypresses and the help of Google Trends: Here’s the entire report. Unfortunately, the web [...]

20080402 Zuckerberg == E.T.

You’re going to love this one-month-old news (well… not) but it wasn’t until today that I managed to listen to the Zuckerberg keynote at past SXSW. I had read it had generated a fair amount of discussion although I didn’t know exactly why. In any case, once you listen to the podcast you can easily [...]

20061210 Managerial approaches to Web 2.0

The following are hypothetical extracts from conversations with managers. Any resemblance with reality is a pure coincidence: Case A: He lived in a bubble for the last 3 years One day the manager started an unexpected although highly desired conversation: I was thinking of updating the company’s website… making it more modern I was quite [...]

20060516 Jeff Barr spoke about Amazon Web Services yesterday!

And I was there to listen to him! Although I don’t have any picture as I forgot the camera and I didn’t take any note as I didn’t bring a ballpen (or a laptop, as the modern speech-attendants do), I’ll try to summarise here the best points of the talk. The event was held at [...]

20051207 Loving RoundCube

What’s better than a Cube? A rounded cube! After my I-hate-all-webmails post (sorry, in Spanish), I must recognize I have found one which is pretty decent (also very mac-ish): Round Cube. It’s still in alpha but works greatly and nicely, super ajax powered… and it’s so clean…! If you want to try it, use these [...]