ganyet.com » Languages http://www.ganyet.com trapped in the paperless, wireless, timeless and spaceless office Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:37:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en i learn therefore i will be http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/i-learn-therefore-i-will-be http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/i-learn-therefore-i-will-be#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:48:32 +0000 josep http://www.iosephdurgell.org/ganyet/?p=167 “The ability to learn faster than your competition may be the only sustainable competitive advantage in the digital economy”

Heard in the MuLiMob review at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. It came up in a discussion related to the mobile web and how “the perpetual beta”, a concept of Web 2.0, applies to the mobile world.

The presentation was done by Grant Lemke from plusCONNECT Telecom UK, a mobile billing solutions company.

Another quotation by Guy Kawasaki in the same line is:”Don’t worry, be crappy”

ie: just get it out there, don’t wait to perfect.

]]> http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/i-learn-therefore-i-will-be/feed teamwork that doesn't work in spain http://www.ganyet.com/design/teamwork-that-doesnt-work-in-spain http://www.ganyet.com/design/teamwork-that-doesnt-work-in-spain#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:53:04 +0000 josep http://www.iosephdurgell.org/ganyet/?p=170 Metaphors have different meanings in different cultures. Here’s the perfect example.

February, 2006. Sun Microsistems use a picture of the Catalan “castellers” (human towers) as a metaphor of team working in most homepages of their international corporate websites (see picture below).

Here are some sites where you can see the picture of the Catalan “castellers” as a metaphor of teamwork:

Here’s the Spanish website with another metaphor of teamwork (a picture of Sun’s founders):

Sun’s Spanish website

I assume it’s a matter of culture: the Catalan picture would be understood everywhere as teamwork except in Spain. Wonder why.

]]> http://www.ganyet.com/design/teamwork-that-doesnt-work-in-spain/feed mulimob goes swinging in london http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/mulimob-goes-swinging-in-london http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/mulimob-goes-swinging-in-london#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:29:00 +0000 josep http://www.iosephdurgell.org/ganyet/?p=184 MuLiMob is a European Commission funded project in order to explore new trends in music and mobility in a multicultural environment to turn them into business opportunities. Last Wednesday a presentation was held in London SoHo.

Major record labels have vast resources to deploy and capitalise on the mobile music opportunity. Independent labels and their artists are not represented and the offer is now biased towards commercial hits. Music diversity and multicultural representation are being compromised especially on mobile platforms, where content has to fit in small screens and access to large amount of data is a tedious task.

MuLiMob hosted a presentation and a networking event in London to stimulate the discussion between independent music labels, the mobile industry and artists in order to support the music of artists you’re not likely to find in the download area of your mobile operator.

Marshall McLuhan Award winner Douglas Rushkoff made an excellent virtual appearance on a recorded webcam video, talking about preserving the cultural diversity on the internet era and why is not only a romantic argument but an economic one.

The pannel was composed by:

  • Michel Lambot, President of Impala and Co-Chairman of Play it Again
  • Edward Kershaw, Head of Music of Vodafone
  • Simon Wheeler, Head of new Media of Beggars independent music label
  • Cibelle, Independent artist
  • David Williams, Music & Audio Industry Director of Nokia
  • and Hélène Abrand, MuLiMob Team Leader

Of note also Rudy de Waele’s presentation on the current situation of mobile music.

The event ended with a dj session of exotica and strange music by Brazilian artist Cibelle from Belgian Crammed Discs label.

Worth to mention the two themes of Yma Sumac, Inca descendant and the only singer whose voice spanned 5 octaves!

A Paris based Brazilian artist recording for a Belgian label playing an Inca descendant mambo in London. I couldn’t find a better example of multiculturality, music and mobility.



Cibelle deejaying to Yma Sumac’s high pitched tunes (photo by Will Dennehy).

Check Cibelle’s latest limited CD and DVD “About a Girl” at Crammed.

]]> http://www.ganyet.com/the-real-world/mulimob-goes-swinging-in-london/feed catalonia dot porn http://www.ganyet.com/languages/catalonia-dot-porn http://www.ganyet.com/languages/catalonia-dot-porn#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:54:11 +0000 josep http://www.iosephdurgell.org/ganyet/?p=205 ICANN approved the .cat first level domain.

The news came in a pack of two: “The internet’s key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the internet through a .xxx suffix.”

Funny to see that in the same ICANN meeting the .cat and the .xxx suffixes were discussed.

I didn’t come to any conclusion but it makes you think.



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