March 2011
Spain’s Facebook competitor Tuenti, after being acquired by Telefonica, is launching an invitation only mobile operator with unlimited calling to friends on Tuenti for 10 euros a month. This is a smart move that Facebook cannot easily match. Also Tuenti has cornered the 15 to 25 demographics and this is the one group that Telefonica has lost and Facebook has not been able to capture. In...
¿Donde están los recursos humanos maravillosos de...
Salvo por la confusión de los judíos como si fuéramos un país, el artículo que incluyo a bajo y me llegó por email vale la pena leerlo. En cierta manera se parece a este mío http://spanish.martinvarsavsky.net/general/argentina-es-al-mundo-lo-que-ucrania-es-a-la-argentina.html
El autor de este trabajo derriba mitos de la Argentina. Datos precisos provenientes de entidades internacionales de...
Energía nuclear versus el gas “natural” →
mis fotos de Berlin con S95 y Canon 5D 24 70 http://bit.ly/dTiMsU artículo sobre que es el judaismo http://bit.ly/fKuyk9
Alguien sabe de algun curso online o en Madrid en castellano o ingles que enseñe informática para emprendedores? El objetivo es que un emprendedor quiere armar un equipo de ingenieros para hacer una nueva empresa online, digamos el nuevo Tumblr y quiere aprender como se programa un Tumblr, como se hacen las apps en iPhone, Android, Blackberry, cuanta gente hay que tomar, cuales son los tiempos,...
How Fukushima makes this writer endorse nuclear... →
Here in Berlin there’s a big anti nuclear demonstration today. Germany in general is at an all anti nuclear energy sentiment these days. I agree with the writer. If a 1970’s plant with obsolete design hit by earthquake and tsunami still has not released lethal dosis of radiation nuclear plants designed today in non seismic areas are safe.
What is Judaism? →
¿Qué es el Judaismo? →
Reunido con oligarca ruso en Berlin
Me explica por que Moscu es la ciudad con mas billonarios del mundo. Me dice para ser un emprendedor de enorme exito hay que ser revolucionario e imperialista. En Rusia aprendimos a ser los dos.
Como se va a solucionar el problema del paro en... →
Yes, I confess it, I am a fan of Lady Gaga and I am watching her interview at Google http://bit.ly/gvfzdP
In this post I explain who we see most Japanese households coming back online through the Fon networks http://bit.ly/dFIwQ4
En USA cuando tu casa vale menos que tu hipoteca le das tu casa al banco. En España les das tu vida.
First time I see data of how much WiFi iphone owners use in USA. The article points out that Verizon iPhone owners use less WiFi but as CEO of Fon what I found remarkable is that for a product that is sold with a high monthly subscription for cellular that so much of the usage be WiFi. That is probably because cellular is what you use when you cannot find WiFi. Here’s the info...
Enough bad news on Japan, here are some good news
Fon has the largest WiFi network in Japan. As opposed to commercial WiFi networks the Fon network is built by its users. In Japan people buy our routers, many of which come bundled with the iPhone and other smartphones, and connect them at their home fiber, DSL or cable internet connections. Our routers, have the unique feature of creating two wifi networks, one for you and one for the...
How Twitter can really make money →
Gaddafi is evil, a horrible person. We know that. But Gaddafi is also very smart. And all of us in Europe and USA who have started a military campaign in Europe should be well aware of that. What I am afraid Gaddafi will do is that he will take the uniforms off his army and send them as paramilitary (as South American dictators, Chavez included do). He will send them to intimidate and...
No entiendo bien esta propuesta WiFi de Valencia pero todo lo que sea diseminar WiFi es bueno http://bit.ly/h7TObJ
The psychological footprint of nuclear accidents tends to be bigger than the radiation footprint, this article in the Washington Post argues http://wapo.st/e3riAf
occasionally I declare email bankruptcy, just did it again
Una visión optimista de la situación en Fukushima →
A more optimistic view of Fukushima →
We live in a world in which people who know are managed by people who guess.
@ninavarsavsky asks me why I write a post about Fukushima if I am not an expert. I answer that I write it because I am an entrepreneur and that is what tech entrepreneurs do, we guess, we make a career out of guessing into fields nobody really knows what the true answer will be. We read, we study, we talk to people, and we combine all that with a strong sense of intuition. In this case I have...
Cuando tenía 25 años trabajé con Cesar Milstein, el premio Nobel argentino de medicina que descubrió los anticuerpos monoclonales. Hoy escuché de un descubrimiento que puede llegar a ser de igual importancia. Apenas pueda contaré de que se trata. Es fascinante.
A risky moment to argue that Tokyo is safe, but here it goes http://bit.ly/gz8Cuu
Unlike most, I don’t think that the worst is yet to come in Japan. Based on what I read, I believe that what we have seen so far is very likely going to be the most or all the damage there is going to be out of the earthquake and tsunami. And that is a already a lot, with maybe 15K people dead, half a million homeless, $200bn in damage. But I think it is very unlikely that anyone in Tokyo...
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A more optimistic view of Fukushima
Unlike most, I don’t think that the worst is yet to come in Japan. Based on what I have read, I believe that what we have seen so far is likely going to be most, or all the damage there is going to be out of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear accident combination. And that is a already a lot. With maybe 15K people dead, half a million homeless, $200bn in damage I don’t understand why the...
Sobre el tema del “frenazo” nuclear chino sugiero contrastar el tono de El Pais http://bit.ly/gwE58M con el de Reuters http://bit.ly/dERmc8 En El Pais parece como que los chinos van a dejar de ser la primera potencia en construcción nuclear del mundo, en Reuters se lo muestra por lo que es, una medida cautelar para estudiar mejor cómo se están haciendo las cosas. El mundo no tiene...
Sra en NYC hace juicio a la guardería porque no encaminó a su hija de 4 para entrar a las Ivy League (mejores universidades) http://on.wsj.com/eaD9Jj
Good summary by Om Malik on the state and role of WiFi http://bit.ly/gLnUlK
Even when something is intuitive, when a study is done on it it is good to know that other than intuitive it is true. I just read a study that show that children who were allowed to have a great deal of free play and therefore spend less time in classes and structured activities do better in life http://bit.ly/hK4BnK
The new fashion among Arab dictators is to recruit mercenaries, Libya, Bahrain…disgusting http://bit.ly/gvLPlO
Governments only agree on one thing on situation in Libya and that is that it is unacceptable. Russians say outside intervention in Libya is unacceptable. Obama says bloodshed in Libya unacceptable. Gaddafi says Arab League support of No Fly unacceptable. Indeed I did a search on Google called “Libya unacceptable” and this is what I found http://bit.ly/dQq9Mx
Around 10% of our 600K hotspots in Japan went offline right after the earthquake/tsunami, we can now see that quite a few are coming back online. This can either mean that homes are getting fixed internet back or electricity back.
I want to especially thank @jfisbein, the Fon manager who right after the Japanese earthquake came up with the idea of opening the Fon network in Japan for all to use until the emergency is over. As a result we saw connections increase 700% to around 4 million per day. At Fon we are happy to contribute in some way to the tragedy that Japan is going through right now. Here’s a NY Times...
With this NYTimes tool you can create your own tsunami, sad but powerful depiction http://nyti.ms/fFlaxY slide left write
William Hague, British foreign secretary says, “If Gaddafi went on to be able to dominate much of the country, well this would be a long nightmare for the Libyan people and this would be a pariah state for some time to come,”Hague told BBC Radio.
Micropost: Artículo Martin Varsavsky en Wikipedia... →
Reunión con la Editorial Planeta o Cómo Volver a... →
Fon has decided to open our WiFi network in Japan... →
Second Stream of Tweetphorisms →
Fon se pasó a Movistar. La oferta era mucho mejor que la de Vodafone. Ahora tenemos Movistar y Yoigo.
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Mi difícil encuentro con Steve Jobs
Image via CrunchBase
Prefiero los productos Apple que los de Microsoft. Es más, no uso productos Microsoft salvo la Xbox. Así que lo que voy a decir poco tiene que ver con estas empresas en si, sino con sus fundadores. A nivel empresa soy fanático de Apple y me incomoda la complejidad de los productos Microsoft. En casa tengo una red de Macs y cuando la opero me siento inteligente. Cuando...
Los niños se deben dormir solos?
Una psicologa me dijo que hacia mal en leer un cuento y acompañar a Leo (4) a que se durmiera. Pero yo, que por suerte solo hago caso a profesionales si me parece que tienen razón, he decidido ignorar su consejo. Leo acaba de escuchar un cuento (en general los inventa el y termino yo) y se ha quedado dormido a mi lado. El ritual dura 20 minutos y es especialmente enternecedor. Luego Leo duerme...
Leí que en China hay 200 millones de personas en clases de inglés. Esto es más de 3 veces la población del Reino Unido. En latinoamérica la gente lo tiene claro, para triunfar hay que saber bien inglés. Pero en España no es así. Es impresionante en temas de tecnología la cantidad de gente que programa hablando un pésimo inglés. Para nosotros en Fon y para las pocas empresas de tecnología que...
Tumblr fits a sweet spot between tweeting and blogging. Now there is a plug in in Seesmic SD2 for Tumblr that I started using. This post was written in SD2 selecting Tumblr. And then you can have Tumblr post whatever you write on Twitter and Facebook and you can effectively tweet beyond 140 characters.