Earlier today Time Magazine announced its person of the year. And, surprise surprise… it went to Mark Eliot Zuckerberg, Facebook’s gold boy. Why? “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives”. […]
Browsers go social: Rockmelt!
Just a quick post to draw your attention to the fact that a new different browser was launched last Sunday. It is called Rockmelt, and even though I still haven’t tried it much, it may well go into the Annals of Social Media history at least for being the first truly social media browser. Currently, […]
The Symbian bail-out, or how the European Union throws away our money
Earlier this week the Symbian foundation announced through a blogpost called “Euromillions for the Symbian ecosystem” that it has received a substantial injection of funds granted by the EC and a consortium called SYMBEOSE, who each will provide 11 million Euros to the Symbian foundation. Which is the reason of such move? As the blogpost […]
What’s up in the air? It’s not planes! – How data predictions are impacting our lives
You have most probably been following quite closely the recent travel chaos in Europe. I certainly did, since I was one of those that went from “up in the air” to “up on a train”, experiencing a new notion of distance. It’s when traveling from Germany to Spain takes two days, rather than 2 hours. […]