Mira eso – Look at that

Spanish version:

Desarrollas una conciencia global instantánea, una orientación hacia las personas, una intensa insatisfacción con el estado del mundo, y una obligación de hacer algo al respecto. Desde allí en la luna, la política internacional se ven tan pequeña. Quieres coger un político por el cuello y arrastrarlo a un cuarto de millón de millas y decirle, “Mira eso, hijo de puta

Look at that / Mira eso
Visto en Un astronauta del Apolo en atolladeros políticos (Boing-boing)

Cluod computing all around…

The main stream is to talk about Google+ … well, yeah, I know, and I already got my Google+ account in use, but now I didn’t wrote a single line about that.

I want to point and emphazise to things that pass unnoticed for most of us: Amazon. Let me explain myself.

First: Apple uses Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure as a software architecture for they brand new cloud services (for example you may read about in English or in Spanish). It may sounds peculiar but they build cloud services over an existing cloud services.

Second: Recently I received an updated from Dropbox about TOS and so on. If you read carefully (I know you allways do) Privacy Terms or Security Page and you’ll search inside those pages the word Amazon you’ll notice Dropbox also relies on Amazon S3 services for cloud computing services.

So, as a conclusion

  • cloud computing is here to stay (no matter what you think about it, you’d better get used to it) and the cloud may be in or out your own company (yes, you may build you own cloud inside your company)
  • Amazon is doing an excellent job, while mos of the people assume they just sell books on line, the fact is, they sell book, jewelry, and many things, but also, excellent ebook readers, web services, storage…

We should have a look permanently on Amazon.

Damned wordpress update

Damned wordpress update… it always has been easy and smooth to update this CMS but something has happened and the upgrade doesn’t finished properly.

Everything out of service ’cause some files has gone bad, so I download and reinstalled all, also this theme that I’m still in love with.

Information comes from differents screens

Due to my job functions I read spanish Microsoft blog, and now I’ve found something very interesting. The way we get information through has changed:

  • 55% european media content are TV on demand (somebody here in Spain should be notice about it)
  • 13 millions european acces to Internet through mobile phones (and I’ve to say in Spain is particularly expensive by tge way)
  • last but not least, pay attention, in Japan, 84% of page views are mobile and just 16% are from a desktop computer

So, as a film director involved in a controversy in Spain about copyright protection says:

Internet is not the futures, Internet is the present

Now, we would say, Internet is the present and is mobile, wireless, everywhere, anytime.

iPad2 vs the rest of the world

Busy as I’m it tooks to me too much to say something about iPad2. I’m going to be very very direct, and for sure it’s just my opinion.

As I said Motorola Xoom was the only to face iPad; mainly for two reasons:

  • Android 3.0
  • Nice & polished aspect

I don’t care about how good the hardware was or how much does it cost. Now we know Motorola Xoom is $599 at Amazon. There’re more Android 3.0 all around but to compete with iPad they need to look not as a lego piece of plastic (yes, I’m thinking about you Samsung Tab) and have a great company supporting it.

So, what has happened? while the rest of the world was competing against the iPad, Apple was preparing the iPad2. They have a great merchandise team; have a look on those demo videos about iPad2: awesome.

By the way, techies spend time about how many Gb or Mghz has that or those tablet… do you how much does it worry to a normal user? The great improvements on iPad2, thinking as a normal user are:

  • same price, (critized Apple as expensive, it was humorous that Samsung tab was expensive)
  • slim, light: no one are close to it
  • smart cover

And talking as a techie there’re just two significant things: slim battery (that longs the same, probably ’cause they control everything, hard and soft) and powerful GPU which is important in user experienced (games, web and apps rendering…)

As a conclusion, Apple strikes back. We all know they are a closed solution, they hate Adobe Flash, they control hardly apps in their store… yes, it’s true, but they are a step ahead, don’t you?

PD: I haven’t and iPad, neither I’m going to buy an iPad2 although any present is wellcomed.