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.

Tuesday, May 22 2007

The usual suspects - Google Zeitgeist

We meet at conferences. Socially. Last night at the Google party we were all having fun. We invest with each other. Sometimes we negotiate against each other.
Tariq Krim, Marc Samwer, Loic Le Meur, Niklas Zennstrom, me and Brent Hoberman.

Monday, May 21 2007

Should I listen to Chad Hurley or “steal” a PC?

For many years I was a slave of both Microsoft and my own PC. Without Microsoft I could not compute, nor could I without my own PC. In the last 3 months I have decided to cut my bond with both, Microsoft and my own PC and so far things are working. [...]

Why didn’t Google develop the Gmailuploader or Gspace?

I just met Jonathan Rosenberg, the head of Product Management at Google, and told him about the Gmailuploader, the tool we have developed at FON allowing you to send old emails to Gmail so when you open a new Gmail account it’s not empty and you can search them. He loved it. [...]

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