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Scientific Sports: 2 segundos para lanzar canasta

Desde pequeño he jugado al basket, en el equipo de la ciudad (ETV Emmerich) o en el equipo del colegio (Liga preferente de colegios en Barcelona), incluso ahora voy todos los sábados a una cancha a meter canastas con mi hijo Martin. Es un deporte que me fascina y considero que como media es mucho más espectacular que el fútbol, donde hay muchos partidos muy aburridos.

Parte de la emoción del basket está en que muchos partido no se deciden hasta los últimos segundos, con jugadores como Michael Jordan o Kobe Bryant llegando a jugarse un anillo (título de liga) en un último tiro.

Pues acabo de descubrir una curiosa serie de videos que analizan científicamente diferentes situaciones deportivas (“Sport Science by FSN”), como por ejemplo la velocidad máxima con la que un jugador puede llegar a hacer un tiro clave en una situación que requiera velocidad, como son los últimos segundos de un partido.

El jugador que aparece, Jason Kapono (Toronto Raptors), es doble campeón de triples de la NBA:

Firefox sigue ganando terreno y alcanza el 29% en Europa

La guerra de los navegadores sigue avanzando a favor del software libre y contra Microsoft: Según un estudio de Xiti Monitor Europa ya cuenta con un 29% de uso de Firefox.

Es interesante ver como el sur de Europa /incluyendo España) está claramente por detrás del norte y sobre todo de Europa del Este en cuanto a penetración. También parece que el uso de Firefox no está correlacionado con la penetración de Internet, dado que en UK tiene baja penetración.

Lo cierto es que aunque el Explorer 7 recuperó mucho terreno igualando la mayoría de avances, en especial el tema de los tabs, FireFox sigue siendo el navegador más versátil y seguro y por eso cuenta el apoyo de cada vez más europeos. Veremos como evoluciona con el FireFox 3 ya en su cuarta versión beta y el Explorer 8 en camino (sin olvidar que Safari y Opera que tampoco se duermen en los laureles)

En cualquier caso no hay nada mejor que la sana competencia para que sigan innovando y mejorando la forma en la que una parte cada vez mayor de la humanidad accede a todo tipo de información y servicios.

Publicidad provocativa o genios del marketing?

Mi buen amigo Fran publica en su blog una noticia sobre la campaña de lanzamiento de un nuevo Saturn en Madrid.

Plantea en el artículo que pocas veces ha visto publicidad tan rara y procativa (se quedó sin palabras).

Pues a mi me parece publicidad super ingeniosa, tanto el falso desnudo como por el “olvidate de Media Markt” (los dos son del mismo grupo alemán, Saturn-MediaMarkt).

En Alemania su slogan “Geiz ist geil” (algo así como “la avaricia me pone” traducido al español como “la avaricia me vicia”), tuvo un impacto increíble y es un slogan que ha pasado a formar parte de la cultura popular y ha sido parodiado en multitud de programas de TV/webs.

No hay que olvidar que Saturn Media Markt (SMM) es la mayor cadena de electrónica de Europa, con más de 500 centros repartidos en los diferentes países. En España Media Markt se está saliendo y abriendo centros a un ritmo increible (ya tienen 8 en Madrid)

En mi opinión son autenticos cracks del marketing…

What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft? :-)

Proceso de transformación muy divertido desde el interfaz limpio y funcional de GMail hasta un imaginario interfaz “marca de la casa” de Microsoft.

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15 Startup Commandments Web 2.0

+15 Startup Commandments Web 2.0

  1. Your idea isn’t new. Pick an idea; at least 50 other people have thought of it. Get over your stunning brilliance and realize that execution matters more.
  2. Stealth startups suck. You’re not working on the Manhattan Project, Einstein. Get something out as quickly as possible and promote the hell out of it.
  3. If you don’t have scaling problems, you’re not growing fast enough.
  4. If you’re successful, people will try to take advantage of you. Hope that you’re in that position, and hope that you’re smart enough to not fall for it.
  5. People will tell you they know more than you do. If that’s really the case, you shouldn’t be doing your startup.
  6. Your competition will inflate their numbers. Take any startup traffic number and slash it in half. At least.
  7. Perfection is the enemy of good enough. Leonardo could paint the Mona Lisa only once. You, Bob Ross, can push a bug release every 5 minutes because you were at least smart enough to do a web app.
  8. The size of your startup is not a reflection of your manhood. More employees does not make you more of a man (or woman as the case may be).
  9. You don’t need business development people. If you’re successful, companies will come to you. The deals will still be distractions and not worth doing, but at least you’re not spending any effort trying to get them.
  10. You have to be wrong in the head to start a company. But we have all the fun.
  11. Starting a company will teach you what it’s like to be a manic depressive. They, at least, can take medication.
  12. Your startup isn’t succeeding? You have two options: go home with your tail between your legs or do something about it. What’s it going to be?
  13. If you don’t pay attention to your competition, they will turn out to be geniuses and will crush you. If you do pay attention to them, they will turn out to be idiots and you will have wasted your time. Which would you prefer?
  14. Startups are not a democracy. Want a democracy? Go run for class president, Bueller.
  15. You’re doing a web app, right? This isn’t the 1980s. Your crummy, half-assed web app will still be more successful than your competitor’s most polished software application. - Mark Fletcher ( http://www.startupping.com/ )~Founder of Bloglines.com 

New Amazon design – very promising

 

As an old-time evangelist customer and ex-employee of Amazon

I am happy to see the new evolution of the Amazon interface.

The new design looks cleaner and better organized at first sight, dealing

with the ever-increasing complexity of the site with lots of AJAX submenus.

Interesting!

For more info and to leave your feedback:

http://amazon.com/gp/events/gno/103-1349575-9963869

Amazon Re-modelled

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eBay writes-off 1.4 b USD in Skype acquisition

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I never really understood eBay’s move to buy skype…. it didn’t make sense from the beginning.

I hope Skype gets a new corporate parent that has real synergies and helps them to flourish even faster.

Those telecoms really need someone like Skype to make them dance…. :-)

It’s Finally Official: eBay’s Skype Has Bombed

Henry Blodget | October 1, 2007 10:58 AM

eBay has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to the rest of the world for at least three quarters: the Skype acquisition gamble has failed. Among the news today:

  • Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom officially gone (he’s been virtually gone for months)
  • eBay will take $1.4 billion asset-impairment charge.
  • Skype has missed the targets Zennstrom and his team set at the time of the sale. Thus, eBay will only pay $530 million of the potential $1.7 billion earnout (some small consolation)

Continue reading: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/its-finally-off.html

Another step for Xbox to control the home entertainment arena

Besides their Media Center strategy, Microsoft is betting on the Xbox to control the home entertainment arena.

Their huge installed base (they hope to reach 10 million by end-of-year) will rapidly surpass many major competitors.

This recent press release gives a good preview of what they are up to for Xbox Live:

- a library of 160 high- definition games

- standard and high-definition TV shows and movies to download and to rent

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Ergo: Watch out Sony, this new fact just confirms the new Xbox is rolling out fast and executing well on its plans, the days of absolute Playstation dominance are over….

New Spanish Opensource ERP

Reconnecting on LinkedIn with old contacts from my time at OcioJoven I found one of them working at Openbravo, a very interesting company, for 2 reasons:
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1) ERPs are the next important frontier for opensource

Opensource has revolutionized many segments of IT in the last 10 years, ERP is probably one of the last big profit pools that still waits for its large opensource paladin (like LINUX, MySQL, Apache, php, sugarcrm etc…. in their segments).

Openbravo has achieved the number 1 spot on largest opensource directory SourceForge among 130.000 other projects!!! (although only temporarily)

They were featured in Spain’s largest newspaper this weekend: http://www.elpais.es/articulo/red/Openbravo/alcanza/63/000/descargas/sistema/gestion/empresarial/elpcibred/20061109elpcibenr_3/Tes/

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2) Spanish technology projects with global ambitions and opportunities are quite rare

The other day I was discussing this with our old sys admin from OcioJoven. He was telling me how Spain is always the worst in EU in terms of tech adoption and how Spanish start-ups have bad access to capital and difficult exit paths. I was trying to put a positive light on Spanish inventiveness and how the younger generation is taking up mobiles or IM, but I guess he is right, and Spain is not the optimal environment for tech startups.

There are only a few notable exceptions (Panda Antivirus, Anyware, FON, etc.) but Spain needs more initiatives like this to avoid commoditization in the global marketplace.

Good luck to this Spanish technology project!

Browser Wars – Firefox 2.0 launched

Mozilla just launched its 2.0 version of Firefox to counter Microsoft’s new Explorer. At first sight it seems more like a tactical release to leverage Microsoft’s PR machine, rather than a new breakthrough edition.
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It seems they have killed the memory jam problem and have added a some new features (not too many killer ones really) . I would highlight:

- Session Restore: should be hand for those “rare” system crashes ;-)

- Integrated spell checking: always a good addition

So just check it out and decide for yourself whether its Firefox or Explorer!




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