I discovered TED Talks some years ago. I think the first one I saw was Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. A really interesting one. But at that time I saw it on youtube. I didn’t explicitly go to the TED Talks website, I just saw some talks on youtube, or google video.
Some months […]

Nowadays we don’t read, we scan. Internet is an amazing source of information, but somehow we have evolved our reading to cope with the huge amount of information on the net, not reading deeply any more, and just scanning. This is no news, as everybody has noticed it, and actually the famous usability evangelist, Jakob […]

Recently I got interest again in composing music. Moreover, I wanted to explore some options to publish my music on Internet, so I packed some of my (really) old tracks and tried to upload them to some websites.
The first option could be just to upload the files to www.liopic.com and use a Flash widget to […]

Some months ago I deleted my facebook account. And some weeks ago I removed my account on friendfeed. Why? Despite I liked it, I found out that it took me a lot of time.
Actually the problem is simpler that you could expect: friendfeed is a too good aggregator. That is, it posts all the pictures […]

People think that playing Go will develop your logical thinking power, that is, the skill used to calculate out sequences. Sometimes they say the effect of playing Go is getting a logical mind, other times the effect of having a logical mind is falling in love with Go. At least this is the usual feeling […]

Last weekend (February 20th-21st, 2010) 146 players enjoyed the 28th edition of the Barcelona Go tournament; including 80 players from Spain, 35 from France, 20 from Romania, 13 from Czech Republic, and more people from several European countries.
The venue was the maths faculty (FME) of the Catalonia Tech University (UPC), which kindly supported the tournament […]

[After some posts in Spanish explaining my feelings during my stay in Seoul, I’m returning to write in English]
Sometimes I like to see past pictures of people, before I met them. Before you discover the existence of a person, usually you have seen him/her at least a couple of times. I love seeing past Go […]

Last year was the social webs era on Internet (*). After experiencing some social webs, I could say what some analysts predict: general social webs (like Facebook) will collapse soon, and only subject oriented webs (like Flickr) will continue living. I have previously spoken about some of those websites, like Friendfeed or Facebook. But let […]

Currently I’m working for a company, at home. It’s a small company: my boss is located in Mexico, I’m (project leader) here in Spain, and there are 3 developers in India. We just use Skype, Google Docs and email, and we have no big problems, just the ones related to the time zones.
“When you work […]

This year I had the luck of taking part in the Iberoamerican Go Tournament in Costa Rica.
It was really interesting to see a non-European Go tournament. Most European ones are too similar, only with the difference of the place. Sometimes one tournament surprises you with side events, or funny details that induce you to think […]