Cvander:

Great week in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 expo. Some final thoughts.

I’m in California enjoying San Francisco and the surrounding cities. This week is the web 2.0 expo.

Since I haven’t been writing much this days in the blog, I did a short video:

Uma saudação desde São Paulo, uma gigantesca metrópole que está recebendo pela primeira vez o Campus Party no Parque Ibirapuera, ou Bienal, como melhor se conhece. Graças à equipe de Windows Live eu vim passar uma semana no Campus, onde pude contrastar interessantes diferenças entre o mercado de Espanha e o de Brasil. E sem dúvida, encantado de conhecer este pais tão latino americano e tão especial, onde a alegria predomina e vem socializar, aprender e compartir.

The last paragraph was translated with the help of my friend Anna. I was basically telling about my first trip to Brazil to participate in the Brazilian Campus Party here in Sao Paulo. I had the chance to be a Campusero in the Spanish Edition of Campus Party in Valencia twice already. It is a great event to meet people involved in development, design, blogs, videogames and other computer and internet stuff. And we’re talking about heavy users so watching their habits and enjoying all the user content that populates flickr, twitter, youtube and tons of other websites is amazing.

If you want to learn more about Campus Party in Brazil, check the posts in spanish from Eduardo in Alt1040, Manu in Gizmologia, Carolina and Juan from Clipset and also the work from the Pixel and Dixel team (they are also updating the official Spanish blog). Laneros is also broadcasting live for the colombian community where the Campus is heading next. And if you want to follow all the information for the event, check the great aggregator fromo Blogblogs.

Another story of how sometimes it becomes inconvenient to use some online reservation systems.

I used to bought train tickets in the Spanish Renfe online system. They even sent you an SMS message with your booking number and you’re ready to go.

Well, they upgraded their system and now when you book online, as a last step you get a webpage to print the boarding pass. And now to get on board, it’s mandatory to show it. My only trouble was that I didn’t have a printer, so I had a pending visit to an internet coffee shop.

So, I went to one of those coin operated internet places where you get the chance to remember good old times with Internet Explorer and Windows Server… something… haha…
I accessed my email account to check for the order confirmation and there was no link to the boarding pass, and they insisted that the email wasn’t a travel document.
I went to Renfe website to try to generate the boarding pass again, but I couldn’t find the option.Just some nice advertising about the new machines to print your passes in the stations that will be available in Barcelona soon. I printed the email and showed up in the station.

They did let me take the train, but I got a warning that next time I might not be that lucky and could miss the train. I did try and it seems like they forgot to be more nice to their paying customers.

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.

One year ago I read online about LeWeb3, this year on its Fouth Edition, I decided to not only read about it, but to be part of it, thanks to the people of Zemanta.

I’m heading to Paris on tuesday.. that means that my twitter, tumblr and flickr account will be on fire.

The biggest internet event in Europe, more than two thousand participants, many entrepreneurs and great speakers…the perfect atmosphere to get inspired!

Update: My review of LeWeb 3 (in Spanish)

This 29th of november, Networking Activo will have its Second Business Meeting event in Barcelona and I’ll be there. The first one in Madrid was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people from the Internet business in Spain.

Thanks to Emilio for the invitation and hope to meet more great people -more than 180 confirmed guests. The program seems very complete with a Keynote from Enrique Dans, a well known teacher and blogger here in Spain.

Update: The event has live streaming today from Citilab in Quicktime.

There will be no rest this weekend, because 17-18 of november will be a great opportunity to meet with friends from all over Spain, do Networking and share some thoughts about Online Communities in the I Webmaster Congress promoted by Factoria de Internet.

The event will be held in the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid and there is a couple thousand confirmed attendees with speakers like Angel Maria, Carlos Blanco, Gonzalo Ruiz, o Rubén Calvo, Bernardo Hernández, Joshua Novick, Samuel Arenas, Eneko Knörr, Pep Sánchez, David Quirant, Miguel Orense and David Martin.

See you in Madrid!

Following the Adobe community, I had read Mike Chambers and his work as an Adobe evangelist, so when the guys of MadeInFlex Community promoted an event in Barcelona this week with his name, it rang a bell.

The event is the first one promoted by the community and was held in the Adobe Offices in Torre Mafre (one of the two towers next to the Olympic harbor in Barcelona). Great view of the city, free pizza and lot of developers on site.

Mike talked a lot about AIR, and also showed a video of Thermo, a project that will really help designers and developers to interact in a better way.

We also had a fun conference of Lee Brimelow from The Flash Blog, a platform evangelist that has some cool examples of what you can build with Flash, Flex and AIR.

The local team of speakers included Angel Blesa speaking about Guasax framework and Joan Garnet about Flex.

By the way, Carlos Rovira is a really tall guy and I finally had the chance to meet Xavi Beumala.

Maleta preparada, pasaporte listo, la portátil y cámara con la batería completa.

Hoy vuelo a Londres para pasar por allá el resto de la semana. Future of Web Apps de mañana hasta el viernes y Streaming Media Europe el jueves y viernes regresando el sábado temprano. Viaje express con muchas expectativas de aprender y sobre todo conocer a gente que lees y te inspira en tu trabajo del día a día.

Ya andaré twitteando un poco al respecto y publicando fotos en flickr.