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Who could use a 19″W monitor in Barcelona?

This will be my last week in Barcelona and that means packing and giving away some stuff.

Monitor AcerWhen I moved here, I was using my Power book of 12″, so I bought a 19″ acer flat wide screen. But when I upgraded my laptop I just put the monitor in the box and keep it in a safe place.

Since I am leaving, I decided to give it away to somebody who could use an upgrade.

So, if you are in Barcelona area and you have a old monitor or a smaller one than this let me know with a picture of your current monitor in flickr, your blog or wherever.

The model is the AL1916W. It is in good shape and almost new. Who wants it?

There is only one condition. Come and get it to my place tomorrow. I live next to Boqueria Market.

Update: My friend Helena is taking the screen home.

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Published: 29/01/2008. Cats: Announcement.

Barna is going to Twitter tonight

TwittBarnaTwittBarna, the first monthly meeting of twitter users in Barcelona is starting tonight in the Irish Rock Cafe (Plaza Urquinaona, 5). It’s about sharing a drink, talk about the world of twitter and meet the people behind the avatar.

The event is part of Twittday, a project that started in Madrid with TwittMad. Check out the flickr pics from previews events.

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Published: 18/01/2008. Cats: Announcement, Events.

2007 in Cities

Cities that I visited during 2007 not including airport stops. The * is for cities that I visited multiple times in non-consecutive days. Links to some pics in my flickr.

Guatemala City, Guatemala*
Miami, Fl*
Barcelona, Spain*
Madrid, Spain*
Padova, Italy
Venice, Italy
Valencia, Spain*
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Malaga, Spain
Granada, Spain
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Helsinki, Finland
Tallin, Estonia
San Sebastian, Spain
Bilbao, Spain
London, UK
Berlin, Germany
Seville, Spain
Paris, France*

The original idea is by Jason Kottke and I found it in Eduardo Arco’s blog.

2008 seems like a good year to extend the list. Dopplr is a great tool to share this.

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Published: 14/01/2008. Cats: Viajes.

The first tasks of this year

A new year and many planning and dreams ahead. I just finished my master in Design Management, so now I have all the time to get into business and new projects. This freedom was truly missed. I’ll stay in Spain for just a few more weeks doing some meetings with great entrepreneurs and friends before heading back to Guatemala.

Eventually I’ll do more traveling this year, you all know me, I can’t stay in the same place for long time. I’d love to spend some time in the Valley this year and also visit Asia for the first time. We’ll see how that goes.

Among the projects we’re currently working on in Maestros del Web, the one I think is interesting to mention is Foros del Web. We’ve been getting more stats from our users so we can work with different companies to find talented developers and help them to outsource projects.

We are also finishing some minor details with Hostigg Spanish, our project devoted to webhosting offers that is helping me to do a lot of research in the different companies all over Latinamerica and Spain. Thanks to this, I am spending also more time updating our Company index. Some networking behind the screen is good for a change, after attending a lot of events in Europe last year.

Also, I’m working on a new section of Maestros del Web. Explorando, which is a personal collection of the cool readings and findings that I get almost daily trough feeds, del.icio.us recommendations and twitter links. Some days I’ll do also collections to special events like the CES event in Vegas or Innocents day on past december. If you find them interesting just grab the RSS to your reader and keep sharing those good things that you find.

And finally, I have to write more and more in english if I really want to practice. And also update this blog design, but it is hard to decide what to change. Thanks for reading ;)

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Published: 08/01/2008. Cats: English.