Cvander

Amazed in Tokyo

cvander — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:59:34 +0000

It’s been almost two weeks since I landed in Tokyo, making this my first trip to Asia (by the way, a destination that I always had on my goals). Since minute one in Narita Airport dealing with customs where a guard took everything out of my bag, but in a very polite way, to the meal a few minutes ago where I asked (finally) for a tea refill in japanese, I’m amazed with this city, with the culture, and those places where western and eastern culture come together like Shibuya:

I still get lost on the subway, take a long time to understand the simplest signs on the streets (I’m learning some basic japanese in an autodidact way with a couple iPhone apps and a few books) and have a big list of places to visit for the following weeks. I’ll be here until march and then will hit the super fast trains to travel around the rest of the country.

The best thing of being here, is that despite the amout of blogs, books and stories that you can hear from Japan, it’s so umpredictable and the smallest things can make every day into an adventure.

Enjoying the snow

cvander — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:03:00 +0000

I haven’t updated this site in a while. In between the social networks, twitter and friendfeed, you fill that need of sharing with your peers lately. But since I did a little video while I was skiing in the North of Spain a few weeks ago, I’ll do my best to keep this more updated.

This year has been a huge adventure. And december always helps you to remember about all, to summerize your goals and achievements. My biggest one is to keep on moving, keep myself on the road, traveling and meeting amazing people, collecting more stories.

After Palermo Valley 4

cvander — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:21:09 +0000

In Buenos Aires, people from the web industry is gathering for Palermo Valley, a great networking opportunity. Last Wednesday I joined them in the nice Marca Futuro showroom and found out about many new projects and also great results for current companies in the country.

There’s a lot happening around here. Many good projects like Copada, Geelbe, Keegy, LemonTV, Popego, PsicoFXP, Coworkcentral, Killer Startups, 11Feeds, Finclu, etc. The best part is the cordiality of the Argentinian entrepreneurs, so I’m glad to be around. A short video from there:

From Campus Party Colombia

cvander — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:00:34 +0000

It’s been a while since my last video. This was shot in the Campus Party event in Colombia this week. The event first started in Spain and now is expanding strongly to Latin America. This is a Lan Party that gathers groups of users like gamers, developers, bloggers, free software enthusiasts, etc.

Going South

cvander — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:49:08 +0000

Blogging from the airport of Guate City, getting ready to board to San Jose, Costa Rica where I’ll meet a couple of good friends to catch up and find out what’s going on in the Internet scene in Ticoland.

Next week I’ll head to Bogota (will be my first time there) to also meet good friends from Colombia and be part of the first Campus Party over there. Will it be better that the one in Brazil?

Then, I’ll do another short stop in Lima. Next Saturday 28th, I’ll meet with bloggers, twitter users and web people to chat and record another chapter of InSilico, a nice project from Alexis.

And finally, Buenos Aires. While listening to Puerto Madero from Kevin Johansen, I wonder about the adventures ahead.

If you’re around let me know.

Enough with Twitter

cvander — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:01:43 +0000

I wonder if the guys in the Twitterplex are doing any sort of experiment to test how much can their users last with all this downtime. But well, I’m done… I mean, more than a year ago I didn’t care much about the service and I need to remember those good old days, or at least I need to try.

There’s a lot of pending tasks in my desk, so I’ll just devote my time to the other more important services. I won’t go to twitter.com for a week, I’m taking the user out of IM (it doesn’t work anyway) and twitterific is now in to the recycle bin. My only problem now is to filter everything related to twitter from Google Reader (yes, I don’t want to follow this soap opera either) so I wonder if Yahoo pipes will be my salvation.

Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco

cvander — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:18:43 +0000

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

On the Bay Area

cvander — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:50:13 +0000

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:

Web 2.0 expo San Francisco from cvander on Vimeo.

So, what are you #not doing?

cvander — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:42 +0000

In the office we’re fans of twitter, so for fun we developed something with the API to test it out.

Twittnot is an aggregator of tweets where you let us know what you’re #not doing. To be part of it just send a message to twitter with the hashtag #NOT (#NO in spanish) to be included in our periodic updates. If you want your messages to be included faster, follow @twittnot.

In the last few weeks we’re getting all sort of tweets. Some people share affirmations, others challenges for the future and the mix in between english and spanish tweets has been fun.

We’re still testing and learning from this experiment. And we also have other ideas for our next twitter mashup. Maybe some extra tools for managing your followers or maybe some analytics magic. Stay tuned for updates and don’t hesitate to send your feedback.

I would love to filter services in FriendFeed

cvander — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:21:41 +0000

After a few days using it, FriendFeed is becoming a great tool for me. Following pictures, links, facebook status and other stuff in a single feed makes a lot of sense. I’m also looking forward for the AIR app.

But, the main content in FriendFeed is twitter and I’m already dealing with that trough twitterific and im.

So, how about a filter where I chose wich services I want to follow from my Friends? I’d love to filter all those tweets away. Marilink is also requesting something similar.