First printer in a computing grid?
Apr 22, 2008 Uncategorized
My friend Diego Mariño has announced in his blog that they have succesfully connected a printer to a computing grid. Think in Grid is a startup from Barcelona with an innovative Grid computing framework. They claim to be able to integrate all kind of devices in a computing grid, just like this printer:Coming from the [...]
Tags: business, development, embedded, grid, M2M
How should Mobile projects be to survive?
Apr 16, 2008 Uncategorized
Yesterday we discover that Mowser, the project founded by famous blogger Russell Beattie (and former colleague) was in the deadpool. Russ claimed that he ran out of money and had serious trouble with his finances.Everyday startups are created and abandoned, but the point in this story is that he could not raise funds to continue [...]
Madrid Facebook Developer Garage was pure crap
Feb 19, 2008 Uncategorized
Yesterday I was in the event organized by Facebook in Madrid, The Madrid Facebook Developer Garage. The event was organized by FON, the Wifi company owned by Martin Varsavsky. I think Mr. Varsavsky is doing a great job trying to give visibility of the European and specially Spanish companies in Silicon Valley. The event took [...]
Tags: business, facebook, fon, social networks
Again in Germany after six years
Feb 2, 2008 Uncategorized
This week I have visited the ESOC (The European Space Operations Centre) as part of my new job in The Server Labs. It has been a long time since I was in Germany last time, in the Due Diligence for the acquisition of JobPilot by Adecco (I was staff of Adecco). I think things have [...]
Network Solutions affair: be evil and the blogsphere will destroy your reputation
Jan 11, 2008 Uncategorized
Long time ago Network Solutions was the only domain registrar of .com domains, and so you had to pay them for the registration. But the monopoly ended several years ago, and discount domain registars are eating their business. They still charge $35 per year for a .com registration when you can find registrars for less [...]
Tags: business
Flux benefits for java developers rocks: All Expense Paid Vacation for Two, Anywhere in the World
Jan 11, 2008 Uncategorized
When there is shortage of talent and your offices are in Montana (USA) you need to squeeze your brains to find benefits to attract the very few talented developers to your company. Flux, the company that developed the best Java Scheduler is hiring two developers and one of the benefits is an All Expense Paid, [...]
Tags: business, enterprise, java, jobs
Leaving AMPLIA and starting as a Freelance IT Consultant
Oct 29, 2007 Uncategorized
Last years have been a wonderful time in Amplía Soluciones S.L., but nothing is forever and I think it’s time for a change. I will continue as a partner of the company but I will look for new challenges and adventures out there. You can read my public linkedin profile if you want to know [...]
Tags: architecture, business, designs, enterprise, java, jee, jobs, management
Microsoft thinks that your Facebook account costs $300
Oct 24, 2007 Uncategorized
Today Microsoft has acquired 1.6% of Facebook, paying 240 million dollars. So the smart guys from Redmon (and their strategic consultants, of course) think Facebook has a value of 15 billion dollars! That’s a lot of money for a company with 300 employees! But it’s not about the employees talent, it’s about the 50 million [...]
G2One.com: following the path of Interface21 and 37Signals for Grails
Oct 11, 2007 Uncategorized
Today I have discovered the existence of G2One.com. This is the company created by the people behind Grails. Following the business model ‘It is all about the Services, stupid!’ they have jumped into the bandwagon of companies that: create a framework work hard to make it first class create or find a necessity in the [...]
Spain will need 30000 Telecommunications Engineers in next 5 years
Sep 6, 2007 Uncategorized
The shortage of Telecommunications Engineers and Computer Engineers is becoming a serious problem for the Spanish economy. Today we can read in the news we will need to import 30000 foreign graduates for our market in the next five years. The option is obvious: bring people from India and China.I don’t know if these politicians [...]
Tags: business, enterprise
