Category: technology

11May

Open Government

11 May 2013 pbenavent

Have you ever heard to talk about Open Government? If you don’t you should start by having a look on Wikipedia’s Open Government article.

This one of my latest focus of interest, the technology meets with society and allows access information about how we’re managing our cities and countries.

If you want to know more about how IT may help people and Governments I recommend you few links as a start:

I would like to writte more about this… or so I hope.

24Feb

Firefox OS? maybe

24 Feb 2013 pbenavent

I was talking about Ubuntu for phones and I argued that it will not succeed because of the lack of companies -mobile manufacturers- supporting the OS, among others issues.

Well now it’s time for another player to come, Firefox OS is on the air. Firefox OS has a true support. The most important telcos are planning to develop apps and offer smartphones with it… sure it’s because they wanna fight agains iOS and Google but the fact is that they have agreed on supporting Firefox OS and not Ubuntu.

So, it’s time to see how fast Firefox OS appears in the market, I probably Ubuntu for phones remains in a market audience similar to Cyanogen fans, unless Ubuntu for phones achieve a manufacturer or telco partnership

20Feb

Google Glass, is it true?

20 Feb 2013 pbenavent

I don’t know if the Google Glass Project it’s so mature as the promo shows, but, it really doesn’t matter very much, what is really important is that technology is achieving those thresholds…

23Jan

Foursquare, big numbers

23 Jan 2013 pbenavent

I like foursquare, yes I do. It really doesn’t matter how they monetize the company -at least not for this post- but it’s amazing to have a look on their page The last three months on foursquare where they show us 500 million of checkin’s. Amazing, isn’t it?.

Even more, you may have a more closer info by searching your country or city. Some examples, and by the way, compare by yourself:

And you may try by yourself your own city, now, what it’s really important; have ever thought about the inmense amount of information about customers habits that Foursquare keeps in its system?

If you have a company, have you ever consider take advantage from this and work together with social media?

PD: I’m also re-testing scheduling post on my blog.