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:

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Somebody asked me in Miami if I was some sort of a FOWA fan, since he saw me also in London. I had a great time in London last year, but It was even better this new edition in Miami.

From the conferences, I really enjoyed the great presentation by Cal Henderson, the energy from Emily Boyd, the challenges of Blaine Cook and the inspiration by Gary Vaynerchuk. And it was also great to hear Kathy Sierra and Matt Mullenweg again.

The networking was great both in the conference area and the night party and breakfast (I left early so, I missed the beach party on saturday afternoon). And from that networking, I really enjoyed spending a lot of time with several developers and entrepreneurs from Latinamerica that joined the event traveling from their countries or sharing their stories from the life in Miami.

I also wrote a longer review in spanish about the event. If you missed, check the coverage by cNet and pictures in flickr.

We had tried several tools: email-lists, Basecamp, Google Docs and a Wiki. They’re good, but we were always lacking something. Then twitter appeared on scene, and our way to communicate changed.

Since Twitter was the first tool in the market, everybody in the office started using it with a big group of contacts. It’s still a great tool and we’re always using it, but it’s not the tool for corporate usage. So we needed to try other choices being available Jaiku, Pownce and even the Prologue template for Wordpress.

Pownce has been the best so far.

Good things about Pownce:

• You can arrange groups in Pownce in order to communicate in private to only certain contacts. We’re handling conversations between 4 recipients.
• Sending files (mostly screenshots that were sent trough email messages before) it’s a great add-on. We also send a lot of links since the tool provides a way to distinguish them.
• Every message has it’s own reply option so you can follow a single conversation. The only trouble with this is that this ends up in a two-persons conversation.
• Pownce has its own Adobe Air client for your desktop so there aren’t any API limits, what causes some problems for example in third party clients of twitter.
• Pownce doesn’t have so many users, so we haven’t experience troubles with the service so far.
• You can filter messages from private ones, public ones and also group messages, so it’s easy to navigate trough the information.
• The mobile version is clean and easy to use. We tested it on a Nokia phone and in the iPhone.

Points where we would like to see some improvement

• We need to search. How about a built-in search engine? This is mostly for the private messages, or even a way to send all this information to our email account where gmail will take care of the searching.
• Replies in Pownce are good, but you need them to be viewed by all the group members.
• Also, @user_narme should be identified as direct replies, the way twitter is working.
• How about marking messages as favorites? We have stars to rate messages, but then, you can’t filter them by votes. Having tags or any other way to mark messages will be also a great feature.
• When you share an image trough Pownce, you get a preview of it in the website, but this feature is not working in the AIR client.
• Email notifications work in a way that we still don’t understand. Some of the messages are missing and you don’t get the group conversations, just direct messages. We would like to get an email for every message with the contents.
• Feeds from conversations will be a great addition to the service, and better yet if they are private feeds with a key to save the info in our feed reader

Pownce offers a Pro account that will get rid of the advertising (there’s only some basic adds in the client and in the website). They also offer more capacity to send files. But just with the free service we’re more than fine.

With some of the features of searching, private feeds and more email tools, that pro account will be more valuable. And they could also think about a corporate pro account or something.

There are some posts comparing twitter with other tools, which ends up with bad comments to other players. But they’re different and that’s what we needed. So far, Pownce is the most corporate oriented tool and that’s a great market with a clear business model. Since we became good fans, we’re waiting for improvements and a true Pro account.