tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91156446058333841382024-03-13T21:16:17.380+01:00X de XavierUnos y ceros. A veces, en el orden adecuado.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-21206307662772790282009-11-13T16:10:00.007+01:002009-11-13T17:27:47.092+01:00ChangesChanges, changes, changes... Please, do not tell my mum about them, because she would be very upset with me!<div><br /></div><div>Last July I took a <b>two years leave from IBM</b>. In a very smart move (in my opinion), IBM is paying me a third of my salary during a period that is forecasted to be of low business. I am allowed to work (and I need to!), but, obviously, I cannot work for IBM's competitors. They are investing this money to get a re-energized employee or, if the employee doesn't go back, to have him leave without having to lay him off, saving quite a bit of money.</div><div><br /></div><div>I plan to take advantage of this by doing lots of learning and following some long time interests that I was performing on top of my formal role of at IBM: <b>dealing/trying to make sense of organizations and teaching</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>So what have I being doing during this months? Besides lots of reading and learning, <a href="http://www.ganyet.com/lifestream">Ganyet</a>, <a href="http://www.vortexvisual.com/?page_id=2">Banzy</a> and I toyed with the idea of working together in super-secret super-cool project, but, after a few weeks, I did not find a way to fit my skills into their needs; it is a pity, because world domination is in their road map.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I left university, I should have made a project to become officially an engineer. I then joined IBM, and I was not disciplined enough to spend my free time finishing the project that I just started before joining. Almost 20 years later, I'm fixing that. And I'm very excited about it, because my project is about the software that should help to <b>build a community around </b><a href="http://www.1x1microcredit.org/"><b>1x1microcredit.org</b></a>, a peer-to-peer micro-lending website that will offers people the possibility to lend money at low interest rates to poor people so that they can escape poverty, just like <a href="http://www.kiva.org/">kiva.org</a>. PHP aside, I feel very lucky for being able to work in a project that is technically cool and has an even cooler goal.</div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-17432009706251968372009-09-16T06:27:00.002+01:002009-09-16T06:34:27.793+01:00Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter<a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/2009/09/15/brainstorming-around-smart-work/">Sacha Chua rocks, as usual</a><br /><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2004030"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter" title="Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter">Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20090915-smartwork-090915222031-phpapp01&stripped_title=smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20090915-smartwork-090915222031-phpapp01&stripped_title=smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac">Sacha Chua</a>.</div></div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-19124637713105336942008-07-10T23:12:00.004+01:002008-07-10T23:38:40.104+01:00Another reason to want a DS......and another reason why <a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/">Sacha Chua</a> rocks: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/how-to-sketch-with-the-nintendo-ds/">How to sketch with the Nintendo DS</a><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_412314"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sketching-1211041949495411-8"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sketching-1211041949495411-8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/how-to-sketch-with-the-nintendo-ds?src=embed" title="View How to sketch with the Nintendo DS on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div><br /><br />And while you are at slideshare, check Sacha's <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/web20work-in-pursuit-of-passion">Web2.0@work: In Pursuit Of Passion</a>:<br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_412658"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=inpursuitofpassion-1211066352609558-9"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=inpursuitofpassion-1211066352609558-9" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/web20work-in-pursuit-of-passion?src=embed" title="View Web2.0@work: In Pursuit Of Passion on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div><br />I liked the "<span style="font-style:italic;">Cynicism (...) directly affects the bottom line</span>" quote from <a href="http://www.howsmatter.com/thebook/">Dov Seidman's <span style="font-style:italic;">How</span></a>. And, for that matter, falling into cynicism also makes work suck.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-1113466658100296322008-06-30T23:26:00.006+01:002008-07-01T13:22:41.736+01:00Jornades de Programari Lliure<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jornadespl.org/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.jornadespl.org/logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Dimecres comencen les <a href="http://www.jornadespl.org/biblioteca/vii-jornades">VII Jornades de Programari Lliure</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=AGENDA&src=oqt75c0jgojvcd2o7trfh0prn4%40group.calendar.google.com">Programa al Google Calendar</a>.<br /><br />Si m'ho puc apanyar, vull anar a<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Dijous 12:30 - 13:00.</span><br />Aprenentatge de la Programació al <a href="http://citilab.eu/squeak">Citilab: Squeak</a> i Scratch</li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Divendres 13:00-14:00.</span> <a href="http://eyeos.org/"><br />eyeOS</a> : Portant el Sistema Operatiu a la Xarxa</li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Divendres 15:30-16:30.</span><br />Eines de virtualització lliures per a sistemes GNU/Linux</li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Divendres 16:30-19:00.</span><br />Taller d’<a href="http://www.arduino.cc/">Arduinos</a> (open-hardware)<br /></li></ul><br />M'ho pugui apanyar o no, dissabte aniré a la Jornada de Python (de 10:00 a 14:00), doncs he dit que faria una xerrada sobre <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page">Sugar</a>, l'interface d'usuari del XO o OLPC o $100 Laptop<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/xogiving/g1g1/xo_intro_v2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-15832266459537218162007-05-11T16:25:00.000+01:002007-05-11T16:43:24.142+01:00gotApi: docs at your fingertipsStumbled upon gotApi.com. Its <a href="http://start.gotapi.com/">Fast Api Search</a>, covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, Python, Java, Flickr... is fast, pretty and extremely useful.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gotapi.com/contribute/index.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto; display: block; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.gotapi.com/contribute/chart.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-68206727161766862782007-04-28T00:50:00.000+01:002007-04-28T16:58:34.997+01:00Democratizing visualizationI learned today about IBM Research's <a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app">Many Eyes</a>, available at <a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/">alphaWorks</a>. Although at first sight it seems simply a nice tool to create nice visualizations, its goal is to enable collaboration around visualizations.<br /><br />In <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/fernanda.html">Fernanda B. Viégas</a>' <a href="http://blog.many-eyes.com/2007/01/31/democratizing-visualization/">words</a>, the intend is <span style="font-style: italic;">"to enable people to collectively reason about the trends and patterns they see on the vivid representations of data called visualizations"</span>, or <span style="font-style: italic;">"distributed data analysis and <span style="font-weight: bold;">collaborative sensemaking</span>"</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app"><img style="margin: 0px; display: block; cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/images2/title.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />How? You can upload data sets. You can create visualizations of them. You can discuss the visualizations, <a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Sk1zvEsOtha6XGE-SiR0F2-">highlighting</a> <a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6X2lZVhPjF2-">parts</a> of them.<br /><br />You are not sold into the power of good visualizations? Check out <a href="http://roslingsblogger.blogspot.com/">Hans Rosling</a>'s <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92">Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen</a> TEDTalk (aka <span style="font-style: italic;">No More Boring Data</span>, as posted on youtube). Or play with a tool similar to the one that he uses in the presentation, at <a href="http://tools.google.com/gapminder">http://tools.google.com/gapminder</a>.<br /><br />And whatever you think about Many Eyes, Hans Rosling, logarithms or baseball, do go and check <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php">the improved TED site</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span> It seems that Many Eyes is not the only project in this area. From an <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ibm_many_eyes_after_one_month.php">article</a> by Fernanda and <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/martin.html">Martin Wattenberg</a>,<br /><blockquote>We think that <span style="font-weight: bold;">social data analysis</span> is a lively area right now and we are not the only ones exploring this space - two other sites of note are <a href="http://www.swivel.com/">Swivel</a> and <a href="http://www.data360.org/">Data360</a>. Each of the 3 sites has a different emphasis, but what we have in common is a belief that the web enables a new, social kind of data analysis; a type of statistical thinking that is both playful and serious.</blockquote>Social Data Analysis. Nice term.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-90193153780457273572007-02-16T20:08:00.000+01:002007-02-16T20:11:44.234+01:00Quick and Easily Done Mashups + SOA and web 2.0<a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/qedwiki/">QEDWiki</a>, a mashup maker by IBM, has got a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIq9t9Gqs">nice intro and demo on video</a>. If you liked it, better keep an eye on the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/etech">Emerging Technologies You Need to Know</a> !<br /><br />Mahups and Mashup makers are an obvious way to show the value of service orientation. As the video states, <span style="font-style: italic;">Web 2.0 puts a face on SOA.<br /></span><br />(via <a href="http://www.rodenas.org/blog/2007/02/08/alphaworks-create-mash-ups-with-qedwiki/">Ferran Rodenas' SDLC blog</a>)-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-58266658515343444982007-02-16T14:23:00.001+01:002007-02-16T14:23:32.487+01:00Oci digital @ bcndigital.orgLa <a href="http://www.bcndigital.org">Fundació Barcelona Digital</a> organitza els Debats sobre l'Economia Digital, què són gratuits (cal inscripció previa).<br /><br />Dijous vinent (22 de febrer, 18:30), <a href="http://www.bcndigital.org/debats/220207_cat.html">Oci Digital</a>.<br /><br />I, per semblar "<a href="http://kellypuffs.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/how-to-look-hip-chic-and-trendy-using-web-20/"><span style="font-style: italic;">hip, chic and trendy</span></a>" i anar de web 2.0, m'he apuntat a <a href="http://upcoming.org/">upcoming.org</a> i hi he afegit <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/153027/">la convocatoria</a>.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-82676315356067478282007-02-14T12:49:00.000+01:002007-02-14T12:54:35.081+01:00Shouting "fire" in a crowded place<a href="http://epredator.blogspot.com/">Ian Hughes</a>, on a comment to a post by <a href="http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/end-of-messages">Andy Piper announcing a blogging break</a>:<br /><blockquote>“I am stopping blogging” is the Web 2.0 of shouting “fire” in a crowded place.</blockquote>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-38368943973390846502007-02-09T10:55:00.000+01:002007-02-09T11:01:57.290+01:00Rethink ourselvesMe-too post about a popular and highly rated video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE">Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us</a> (4:30 minutes). I loved it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span><br />Bonus links: A <a href="http://justaddwater.dk/2007/02/08/web-20-video-complete-transcript/">transcript</a> and <a href="http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313">the video on Mojity</a>, a cool video+comments mashup.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-11469889927916253012007-01-18T14:28:00.001+01:002007-01-18T14:41:18.295+01:00Ajax i Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe i atSistemas<a href="http://www.atsistemas.com/evento-RIA-BCN-1.html">Web 2.0: la revolución de RIA en el desarrollo de aplicaciones web. Un enfoque práctico</a>: al World Trade Center de Barcelona el primer de febrer, i <a href="http://www.atsistemas.com/evento-RIA-MAD-1.html">a Madrid el 8 de febrer</a>.<br /><br />Organitzat per atSistemas, <span style="font-style: italic;">Business Partner Premier</span> de IBM.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.atsistemas.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.atsistemas.com/image.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ups!</span> Inscripcions al 91 640 76 20 o per mail a Isabel Hueso (ihueso at atsistemas.com)-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-15752099272921550102006-12-11T14:40:00.001+01:002006-12-11T15:25:55.424+01:00Del JazzSí a Tagzania passant pel FlickrBuscant-me un concert baratet al <a href="http://www.tallerdemusics.com/web/04-club/con_club_cat.htm">JazzSí</a>, ensopego amb <a href="http://www.tagzania.com/">Tagzania</a> o <span style="font-style: italic;">Tagging the planet</span>: tags, llocs i mapes. Bona idea.<br /><br />Sembla què ara hi ha quatre gats que ho fan servir, i la cosa perd gràcia (em precipito cap a aquesta conclusió en veure que no hi ha res etiquetat aprop de casa meva). I si té molts usuaris, funcionarà? O hi haurà massa soroll? Em caldrà veure on és la casa de la teva tieta Conxita?<br /><br />El concepte és molt similar al de wikimapia.org (e.g. <a href="http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=41400000&x=2170000&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;z=11&l=0&m=a&tag=bar">bars a barcelona?</a> en falten alguns...).<br /><br />El <a href="http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news">blog dels tagzans</a> (<span style="font-style: italic;">Conspiring for world domination from the Basque Country. Tagging the planet to set up our targets</span>) és xulo. I em fa guardar-me la url dels <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/">fd's flickr toys</a> (no, no cal flickr-ejar per fer-ne servir alguns).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/luistxo/315660158/in/pool-97704879@N00"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://static.flickr.com/100/315660158_901c584b00_d.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="420" /></a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-9198002228927379282006-12-01T16:25:00.000+01:002006-12-01T16:26:22.372+01:00(Lotus) Ventura(Del lat. <span style="font-style: italic;">ventura</span>, pl de <span style="font-style: italic;">venturum</span>, lo por venir)<br /><br />Tras unas semanas de morderme las uñas para no escribir sobre el próximo Lotus Ventura, ¡<a href="http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/ventura-is-revealed/">ya se puede</a>! Otro día escribiré más sobre Ventura, pero me hace muchísima ilusión que se conviertan en un producto de IBM cosas que he visto nacer, que he utilizado mientras todavía estaban en pañales, a las que les he abierto incidentes y propuesto mejoras, de las que he mirado los fuentes, con algunos de cuyos padres he charlado por teléfono e IM...-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-49506255087683778682006-11-24T14:42:00.000+01:002006-11-24T15:17:31.776+01:00Generalitat 2.0?!Ensopego amb això: <a href="http://www.gencat.net/nougencat/cat/web20.htm">Gencat: la primera aplicació de Web 2.0 a l'Administració pública</a>. Sorpresa.<br /><br />Em passejo per la part que parla de xarxes socials, el subprojecte <a href="http://ecatalunya.gencat.net/portal/index.jsp">e-Catalunya</a>, en fase de proves (sortosament, doncs va molt lent!).<br /><br />I, el que em deixa més impressionat en aquest món on sovint les pàgines no tenen ni un mal link per avisar als webmasters de que tenen una cosa trencada, és una <a href="http://ecatalunya.gencat.net/portal/static-content/about.html">pàgina de crèdits</a> de l'aplicació, on fins i tot surten els usuaris que han col·laborat en la fase de proves o el <del>software</del> programari que s'ha utilitzat.<br /><br />Caram!-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-58209809840125204352006-11-17T16:38:00.000+01:002006-11-21T00:14:23.817+01:00Chicago 2.0 - Barcelona 0<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/USDOT_highway_sign_bicycle_symbol_-_white_on_green.svg/653px-USDOT_highway_sign_bicycle_symbol_-_white_on_green.svg.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/USDOT_highway_sign_bicycle_symbol_-_white_on_green.svg/653px-USDOT_highway_sign_bicycle_symbol_-_white_on_green.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://andreischeinkman.com/bikemap/" title="Bicycle routes in Chicago, drawn with Google Maps">Chicago 2.0</a> - <a href="http://www.bcn.es/bicicleta/pdf/mapabici.pdf" title="Impossible pdf">Barcelona</a> <a href="http://www.bcn.es/infotransit/catala/ccarbici.htm" title="90s">0</a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0