November 2009
30 posts
Sunday Book Recommendation
Today’s book is not my usual reading, but it’s a great book. Runaway World by Anthony Giddens. I was asked to read this book for university on my 2nd term for a subject called Cultural and Economic perspective of Globalization. This subject changed my way of thinking and reading because it introduced me to high level thinking, something I haven’t been doing on high school....
Sunday Book Recommendation
Today’s book is not my usual reading, but it’s a great book. Runaway World by Anthony Giddens. I was asked to read this book for university on my 2nd term for a subject called Cultural and Economic perspective of Globalization. This subject changed my way of thinking and reading because it introduced me to high level thinking, something I haven’t been doing on high school....
Legacy
Yesterday I fell of the NaBloPoMo wagon. It was for a good reason though, I was at a lunch party with my dad that happens only once a year and is very special for him. While at that party I got to meet some of the old work colleagues of my dad and gather their impressions about his work. I must say I was proud and surprised.My dad is a guy that doesn’t speak a lot about his accomplishments...
I'm Thankful For
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here, but I thought it’s a nice thing to say all the things you are thankful for every once in a while. Thinking on things I’m thankful for I realized I have a pretty good life after all so being thankful is the way to go. So here’s what I’m thankful for. I’m thankful for how the Web has accelerated serendipity and improved so...
Wish List | Wired.com Product Reviews
via wired.com Wired Published a List of Products to give away on the Holyday season. Personally I’ve been making my Christmas list as always. I usually don’t get all the things I want but it’s nice to get in the spirit and dream of what you want. In my case lot’s of gadgets!!! So far on my list. Android Phone Mac Book Pro 24” Monitor A trip to the US for a couple...
Finally Finishing University
Today I got to present my final paper to graduate from University. It’s not much of a paper but a gathering of the experiences we’ve had in opening a new business. I like those kinds of projects because you go out of business school with the experience of opening a business (small or big it’s a business you can call your own…if you failed you did it early). On the other...
What to do when you've almost failed
Rather than sharing how well my new venture is starting to pick up this past month I wanted to share the feeling I got when we were about to go out of market. We still had plenty of oxygen to work through the next couple of months of development, but we were out of passion. I’ve read tons of books and heard to lot’s of people tell us that we need to work in our passion to be really...
Sunday Book: Head First Series
This week I’ve started to learn HTML. Looking for a good HTML guide I came across the Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. The head first series is amazing because of the design of the book that has made it super easy for me to learn HTML. I’ve always been a fan of good educational books and this is for sure one. On the topics treated inside, if you want to learn HTML from...
The Social Media Guru
via youtube.com This video made me feel that many businesses approach to Social Media is not the correct one. Social Media changes the whole field in which businesses compete. Social tools can help a business in many ways and not just by driving people to their websites. I find this video hilarious as I’ve seen many consultants say stuff nearly as fun as this. On the matter there is a...
Special Friday Job Offer
Special Friday Job Offer: Work at the Office (located in your city) or from home whenever you want You’ll have a laptop and two 30” monitors assigned (one for the office and one for home) Full Medical Insurance Free Lunch when you’re in the office We will pay you 50% of the money you spend at home for lunch when you don’t feel like coming Excellent facilities including...
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
via inc.com I stumbled upon (not using stumble upon BTW) this article and was going to make an extensive post about it. Sadly, I got sick with some sort of stomach condition and haven’t had time to prepare my post. Meanwhile let me share with you how Jason Fried works. I like his approach to work because he likes to treat people as adults. In my experience working I’ve found...
Information Overload
We have tweet streams, facebook streams, rss feeds, e-mail, youtube subscriptions and IM. We are truly living in a world where we have access to all the information we want, need and don’t want too. Information Overload is a phenomenon that comes with lot’s of interesting information we want to read but we can’t seem to find the time to read. I find it frustrating to have so...
Why you should pick coworking over working from...
Since we decided to open a Coworking space lot’s of people have been asking me why do I want to create a space if it’s cheaper and better to work from home. The common characteristic of all these people is that they work at a office every weekday so there’s no way they know what is like to work from home. If you work at an office it’s simple to miss home and want to be...
Best Practices
Who in business hasn’t heard of best practices? We see them a lot like ‘Operations Best Practices’ or ‘Benchmarking’. Both terms refer to doing what is working for others. That’s a smart move why re-invent something if it’s already working that way. For example, I’ve read about Twitter best practices and I find them very useful. Retweeting, engaging...
Sunday Book Recommendation
This week I thought it was proper to talk about the ‘sequel’ of Funky Business, Karaoke Capitalism. Published in 2003, Karaoke Capitalism is a must read book if you want to manage in the 21st century. Now, I say this about just a few books. Karaoke Capitalism is a must read book because it proposes one big theory: we’re trying to do the same thing all over to get different...
Twitter going for the money!
This weeks news regarding Twitter’s new RT feature have brought the debate (again) on the monetization plans they have. Biz Stone announced huge plans for monetization, including business accounts, statistics and services that take advantage of Twitter as a marketing platform. I think it’s time for Twitter to start earning money because it’s an awesome product and revenue is the...
Coworking in Lima
After lot’s of months of planning we’ve came up with the draft plan of what will be the Co-Working space for Lima. This will be the first space in Peru and we’re really excited as partners in a small consulting agency we’ve always worked from Home Offices and now from a really small office that really lacks all the social interaction you could find in a workplace with more...
Coworking Lima
After lot’s of months of planning we’ve came up with the draft plan of what will be the Co-Working space for Lima. This will be the first space in Peru and we’re really excited as partners in a small consulting agency we’ve always worked from Home Offices and now from a really small office that really lacks all the social interaction you could find in a workplace with more...
Everybody has an idea for a awesome product
Yesterday I came up with an idea of an awesome product for people that like to stay in shape. I can’t remember very well how I came with it, but it’s a really cool idea. After that I started remembering how many people have great ideas for awesome products that if taken to reality will change the world in the field or industry they belong to and some will even change the whole world....
Starting Report 1
Since I’m starting my first business, besides my consulting company. I thought it would be a nice idea to do a startup report of how I feel as I go forward in order to share my experience, hopefully get some feedback and learn from the mistakes I make when I read this months later. Starting a business, technology or not it’s a fairly straightforward process with just one requirement:...
The Wall
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The Winner Takes all
We haven’t noticed but more and more we are entering a time where the winner takes all and there is no place for second places. This happens everywhere but it’s more notorious in Sports and Business. We as users will follow or use the best tool available to us- not the second best- and god forbids some one does, because then they will be in a disadvantage. To start with an example...
Sunday Book Recommendation
As a Sunday post I will like to recommend a book every Sunday in november starting today. It’s just because I have only 4 books to recommend right now. Some books are for entertainment and some go beyond. The one I’ll like to post about today is one that went beyond, one that was breakthrough for me and really changed my life. It’s Funky Business from two Swedish economists...
Measuring Social Media Efforts: The Importance of...
A couple of days ago I posted about how important is to consider the qualitative part when making a analysis of the impact of social media in business. Thinking a bit more about the issues regarding measuring success in social media, i think that one important part of that is measuring the community. Though the interaction and the value created inside the community is not easy to measure, at least...
A review on the Whuffie Bank
Right when Chamillionaire was on stage at TC50 one of the judges announced their ‘Wild Card’ at the conference. I was expecting something really bad or just a presentation as fun as the one by Tonchidot. Instead I was presented with a concise and really great idea by two Argentinian entrepreneurs: The Whuffie Bank. I’ve been following Whuffie since I first came across the...
Learning: Making Users Better
For the last couple of months I’ve been reading every post of the Head Rush blog by Kathy Sierra. Though the blog was closed about 2 years ago I find it still really useful because the subjects treated there are deep and go way beyond the time they were written. This blog has truly made me smarter and I guess that was the intention since Kathy Sierra is the co-creator of the Head First...
Measuring Social Media Efforts: The qualitative...
A great post on Altitude Branding titled When measurement falls Short got me thinking all night on how effective is our measurement and how effective it could get with time. In my opinion the most important problem is measuring right now is that since we still don’t have the perfect tool for measurement we need to take in consideration the qualitative part of the analysis (even if...
What would Batman do?
A couple of days ago at a Halloween Party in a friends house I had the most interesting Super Hero conversation of my life. I’m a fan of Super Heroes as any kid growing in the 90s, but I’ve never read any series of comics regularly. We were discussing about superheroes from DC Comics and suddenly the subject of how ‘badass’ Batman is. I’ve never thought of how amazing...
Shinning Lucky People
I’m really glad I woke up early today. As usual I turned on my laptop and launched Seesmic Desktop to find out a new blog post by Tara Hunt titled Feeling Lucky?. I read through it 3 times in order to get the most out of it and thinking how lucky or unlucky i felt. We all h ave a opinion on how lucky we are and as Tara says on her post, a study made by Richard Wiseman says that if we feel...
Toys in the Office
About a month ago my partners and I opened a small office for our consulting firm. We painted it with the colors that came to our mind (that we later noticed are the Digg colors), but the office still looked too serious. Now, we have no idea on how to decorate an office, but we got a idea we thought was awesome. I have a bunch of toys from when I was a kid (which was not long ago) in my storage...
