Saturday, June 16 2007

Virtual Philanthropy: The Stardoll Case

Before the digital era there was only way to be poor and that was not to have access to things. But now there´s a new kind of poverty and that is digital poverty. Not only can you be poor because you have no access to the information society as we like to call [...]

Martin Varsavsky´s Netvibes Universe

This is my Netvibes Universe.  Basically my Netvibes Universe is a fancy way to say that you can now look at my personal Netvibes page.  Or that my Netvibes page is now “blogged”.  Why is this feature interesting? Because now you can see my sources, you can see the blogs I read, my news sources, [...]

Friday, June 8 2007

New features for PSP and PS3, by my son Tom

In this video, my 12 year old son Tom shows how the PSP and the PS3 work together. The PSP is in a way like a Slingbox of the PS3. With a PSP you can control the downloads of the PS3 and you can also see movies and games of the PS3 [...]

Wednesday, June 6 2007

CUTEC i-Teams

Today I went to CUTEC (Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club), Cambridge, where I was invited as one of this years keynote speaker.
One of the activities they organize and that I liked the most is i-Teams, which is basically a group of entrepreneurial post-graduate students who work with real inventions to determine the best route [...]

Tuesday, June 5 2007

Robots and Communities

Yesterday I met with Sir Martin Sorrell and we spoke about the incredibly high market cap of Google compared to that of his company WPP, the largest ad agency in the world ($18bn compared with $160bn). During this conversation I came up with an explanation for this paradox that partly explained the [...]

Friday, June 1 2007

Endgadget readers trash the Palm Foleo

Here´s the announcement of the Palm Foleo in Endgadget. Pls read the comments. They are very negative. People seem to focus on only one thing, the price, which at $500 they find too high. And in that sense they are right. The right price maybe more like $390. But if [...]

Tuesday, May 29 2007

Large Telcos in Europe making WiFi an essential part of their offer

More and more large Telcos are incorporating WiFi as an essential part of their strategy. Today Deutsche Telekom announced a double flatrate product in Germany “call&surf” which includes unlimited access to DT’s national WiFi Hotspot network if you buy their broadband. This will probably accelerate that FON teams up with a DT competitor since [...]

Sunday, May 27 2007

PC vs Mac a la South Park

Saturday, May 26 2007

Loic.tv at Vpod.tv and all the other Online TV platforms

I was looking at the TV Channels that Loic Le Meur built using the infrastructure of Vpod.tv and I was super impressed at how studio like quality, a one person effort can be. I also built my own TV channel but walking around with an Nokia N80 my channel is not as professional as [...]

Thursday, May 24 2007

The iRosary out of Berlin

Here´s some help for modern Catholics who want to stay in touch with religion while listening to their iPods. In the same site there are other interesing projects for Budhists and Jews.

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