Catalonia has always been ahead from the rest of the country as far as using new technologies is concerned, so I?m not surprised that Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalonian government, is the first civil service…
Olympic blogs: How to make the most of…
Six Journalism students from Germany, Austria, Canada, China, the USA and Italy have been invited by Coca-Cola to travel to Turin (Italy) and report the events of the Olympic Winter Games through six blogs known…
Fon and the maturity of the Blogosphere
If there is something that the recent multimillionaire investment in Fon has proved it is that blogs can be used for something more than telling personal stories. Varsavsky blogged the whole creation of this new…
Podcast: leave me a voice comment
Macromedia Flash technology gives Web pages the multimedia characteristics that HTML can't give. I wrote yesterday that Macromedia itself is using this technology to develop the Breeze platform, which allows users to communicate among themselves,…
Only one blog mentioned in AIMC’s questionnaire about…
Blogs still have a long way to walk to become a mass phenomenon. Despite growing very fast, even the most visited ones are far behind the main portals and online Spanish newspapers, not to mention…
Fon and viral marketing
There is a very interesting article written by the Wall Street Journal. It describes the blogger-gaining strategies used by Fon to generate viral marketing on the Internet. We did already talk about this the day…
Blogs and Fons
US$21 million investment in Fon has shown that blogs are something else that a tool to write about personal experiences. Fon's founder Martin Varsavsky, who defines himself as a "blogadict", blogged the whole process of…
Friends Reunited or how to become a millionaire…
Five years ago, Julie Pankhurst was in maternity leave, bored at home; she wanted to learn new things and find other women in the same situation as her. She thought that some of her old…
A shop with social network
I have always liked Amazon, one of the businesses that have done pretty well on the Internet. It was the first shop online that I used, back in 1997 -I have to admit I was…
Where does ?microsano? come from?
Probably, 'Microsano? is the most searched word in the whole Internet for a few hours now. Technorati says that, at least, it is the most wanted term in the blogosphere, gaining positions to politics, economics,…