Saturday, November 13 2010

Using a MacBook Air with share screen as a TV remote

Image by Getty Images via @daylife You can connect Apple TV to your TV and it’s pretty good. It only costs $99 and you get iTunes, Youtube, Netflix (North America only). But if you live in Europe I find it best to connect a MacMini to your projector TV or large display and add a [...]

Wednesday, October 20 2010

My Genetic Disease Risk Profile according to 23andMe

This is the disease risk part of my genetic profile in 23andMe. I hesitated a great deal before posting it. It is normally a very private matter. In a way by posting this I am more naked than if I was posting a naked picture of myself. But then I thought, my objective in posting [...]

Monday, October 4 2010

Fon reached 2.5 million hotspots around the world

Is that a lot? Well huge companies like T Mobile have say, 70,000, France Telecom, Telefonica, ATT, Verizon, less than T Mobile. But we grow over a T Mobile every month. And we are happy because between you and I, 2 years ago, things looked awful at Fon. Laptops were not able to generate enough [...]

Saturday, October 2 2010

Why majority of Muslims believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy created by the US Government

This morning I read that most Muslims believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy created by the US government to justify the invasion of Iraq. This worried me. How could the majority of Muslims be so wrong? But then I thought that the US government and some EU countries did lie to invade Iraq. They lied [...]

Wednesday, September 8 2010

Media and the math of racism

In Spain 1 immigrant in 1000 is a convicted criminal. That means that for every 999 immigrants Spain gets one immigrant who ends up as a convicted criminal. That means that 99.9% of immigrants are not convicted criminals. And yet, because there are very few criminals in society overall, it happens that 60% of all [...]

Monday, August 30 2010

Thanks to Bloomberg NYC is becoming a great place for cyclists

I just wanted to thank Mayor Bloomberg who I had a chance to meet a few times and greatly admire for the new bike paths around the city. Here’s a ride I did today. It was phenomenal and mostly done on bike routes and bike paths, a lot of it in Harlem. I take the [...]

Thursday, August 26 2010

Overeating can kill you, but fortunately there is little shame in it

In 2007, Loic Le Meur and I came up with the concept of La Fatera. It is described here. The idea was a scale that would share your weight over the internet and help you lose weight socially. At that time the plan was that Fon makes the Fonera and the Fatera. But while at [...]

Monday, August 23 2010

The Sicilian Islands: Aeolian, Aegadian and Pantelleria

I have had Aphrodite for 10 years now.  During those years I have been able to combine my life as an entrepreneur and my life as a sailor getting around 20 to 40 days on board per year.  Aphrodite spends summers in the Mediterranean and winters in the Caribbean, so she has many Atlantic crossings [...]

Wednesday, August 4 2010

Tuenti, the Spanish Facebook sold for €75M to Telefonica

I am friends with Zaryn, Tuenti’s CEO and have been informally advising him on this transaction so what I am going to say is what Expansion publicly reports. All shareholders of Tuenti but management sold all their shares to Telefonica. Management stayed with most of their shares and will work for the majority Telefonica owned [...]

Saturday, July 24 2010

Sailing Wedding Dress makes it from Miami to Menorca

Nina’s wedding dress was too big to carry on the plane. So we sent it with our sailboat that came from Miami to Spain. Yesterday we found ourselves at our first anniversary (of our civil wedding) with dress in hand and we did this funny pictures/video allegorical of how Nina said she felt about marriage. [...]

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