The year is getting over so this is a good time to remember what happened on social networks. These are the main trends that we went through during 2015 and which do also mark the…
Cultural differences affect social networks
In July O'Reilly organized a Community Leadership Summit in San José. It lasted for two days and around 200 community managers showed up. As it was organized as an unconference, I did myself lead one…
Facebook apps and fbFund
Facebook's efforts to develop startups that use its apps are really smart. It has created a $10 million fund called fbFund which helps small entrepreneurs in their first steps. Besides a short funding (not more…
Addicted to Facebook
One of the results of my last trip to Silicon Valley is that I have become addicted to Facebook. Now I need to know what my Facebook friends are doing every time I connect my…
Changes in politics: from filling meetups to developing…
During the Social Media and Politics program at Stanford we had the opportunity of listening to Will Bunnett, senior e-mail writer of the Obama4America campaign. He gave to us great insider information of what was…
The Facebook Era
When I started working with social networks back in 2004, nobody really believed in them. Not even Google. Nevertheless, they have become mainstream. Almost all people under 25 are using them and older people are…
There is a lot of bullshit in Silicon…
The Silicon Valley's ecosystem is great at saying how good you are. It's like a bunch of consultants just telling you what you want to hear (without the nice wording from consultants). Luckily, when you…
Spain’s social media monitor
Every once in a while I am going to write a post aggregating some general data about the Spanish social media. You can find these data on the Web but you have to search a…
Twitter is hype (as blogging was 2 years…
One of the things everybody agrees on here in the Valley is that Twitter is a hype and it won't be so popular for ever. It's true that there is a lot of creativity among…