When it´s hot smells are stronger. And it´s hot in Miami. Good and bad smells are amplified by temperature. We are on a 5 day vacation in this city which among other things is the undeclared capital of Latin America. English is barely spoken here.
We are here with Nina my [...]
Cinch is a voice to RSS service developed by my friend Alan Levy at BlogTalkRadio in collaboration with Dave Winer. It allows anyone to create a podcast using any type of mobile phone with no preregistration required. They are currently rolling it out for the iPhone. Cinch updates will automatically appear on Facebook and [...]
Looking for new apps to include the Fonera and testing Pando and Dropbox I found Files Over Miles and it seems great (thanks Raul Chevalier). The key about the new Fonera, the Fon WiFi router that allows you to offer a little extra bandwidth to others and in exchange getting paid and roaming the world [...]
The Menorca TechTalk 09 has just finished. This is the third time Nina and I have hosted the TechTalk, an event attended by about 80 entrepreneurs from all around the world to spend four days at our farm in Menorca. This year we had participants from every major world region: Africa, the Middle East, Latin [...]
eRepublik Labs announced that it has raised €2 million in a series A round from AGF Private Equity, after a seed round of €200,000 in 2007 and an angel round of €550,000 in 2008. The money will be spent in the next 12 to 18 months to develop more features in the game and new [...]
It is unacceptable to go on sending planes over the ocean without position trackers, real time weather information, ground based support and no satellite phones. It is wrong that in emergency situations pilots can only communicate with, say, Cape Verde control and not with their own airline, or even plane makers such as Boeing or [...]
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I used to think that fanaticism and hatred tempered with age. I was wrong. The murderer is 88.
WASHINGTON — An elderly gunman, said by authorities to have a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, stepped inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, opened fire with a rifle [...]
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No, this is not an invitation to the Menorca TechTalk. Those went out already. Nina and I are looking forward to seeing our friends next week. This post instead is about an idea to radically improve the economy of the island of Minorca converting it not into a tax haven but [...]
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At Fon we are Fonwifi in Twitter. But it so happens that naturally FonWiFi is evolving from being us telling news about Fon to quickly becoming a first help site for customer care. We were not prepared for this but as thousands of Fonera 2.0 get shipped around the world we [...]
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Record labels may be going down the drain but music has never been livelier. So here are my latest discoveries (and by discoveries I don´t mean that the Indians were not there before but that they are new to me). First I rediscovered the Sansa Connect: an amazing WiFi music [...]
I’ve been told about this interesting open source project (article in Spanish) with La Fonera. It consists of an alarm that is activated via an RF emitter (of the kind that are used to open garage doors) and sends an SMS to a mobile number of your choice.
It can be useful for elderly people in need of assistance or shop owners who want to alert someone of a robbery.
The only equipment needed is an RF emitter, a receiver and a Fonera with the OpenWrt firmware.
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