youtube.com is to video what flickr.com is to photography. Is this at last participative TV? Open TV? Community based TV? Videoblog hosting? I’m not sure yet, but if I’m to judge by the amount of mails or the times I’ve read about youtube.com in the last three days, these guys are ...
The abc of packaging: the package is the last advertisment the buyer will see before the purchase. See a video on how microsoft repackages the iPod to better “microsoftify” the product. (Thanx to Quim Massana for the link)
Flip the business card, browse and discover. New trends in business cards usability. Business card exchange is cool. We all learnt this from American Psycho. In some cultures such as the Japanese, it is almost a ritual where you show respect and interest for the person you’re meeting. But the times they are-a-changing. ...
During the 3GSM congress held in Barcelona, Gotomedia, the San Francisco company I work for as a consultant, held a cocktail with some of the most influential people in the mobile comunity. What better setting to share a drink with a few friends? On Tuesday, February 14th at 19h at The ...
“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 ...
Two recent unrelated online events show two different approaches to web politics. On the bright side we have the Catalan president, Pasqual Maragall who just opened his weblog a few hours ago. Not his presidential website but a personal weblog (although the fact that it’s published in Catalan, Spanish, Galician and ...
¡¡Baile ritmos de hoy con la Orquesta Maravella!! (1968). Another vinyl gem brought to you by Phil Musical. From Phil’s website: “Yes! Here’s one of the best Spanish orchestras. From Catalan town named Caldes de Malavella, this orchestra still exists on our days. More than 50 years working around European scene, you ...
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 ...
If you ever thought that DJs are the priests of the digital society we live in, wait until you see them playing god. Just go wooow. Check the video here (I just got it on email, if you know the author just let me know. Some blogs point to Chris Cairns as ...
Phil Musical, the renowned catalan lounge evangelist has finally opened his long awaited Lounge Corner. He’s set high standards by starting with Xavier Cugat. Go, respect and download! From Phil’s Lounge Corner: “Great album by the Catalan master of latin music Xavier Cugat from the seventies! He arranged this album where ...