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One of the phenomena that are at the heart of Web 2.0 and give the greatest potential are the APIs, which are small systems to query external databases in an automated fashion. With their help you can build new sites based on information from others. This creates, in fact, all the mashups that use Google Maps or the various applications that use Twitter data. The great paradox is that most APIs are free (although limited quantitative) and do not generate direct income for the owner of the information derived with their help. In fact, Google did not give in principle the use of their maps, and even forbade it, and just opened an API programmers noting that they were doing was real fancy stuff they never would have happened to their own engineers. Read the rest of this entry »

I remember in the midst of the dotcom bubble, when I used to create portals within Ya.com, before the release of one of them, the manager offered me an advertising campaign based on advertisements in various newspapers of paper. He was very good at what they do in traditional media, but I had no idea what could be done by purchasing banners on the Internet or directly with a good public relations strategy. So I said I only buy online advertising and to make every effort to ensure that we mentioned in Javier Sarda Martian Chronicles.

Well. What then could be done by Sarda web visits multiplied exponentially, today we get Andreu Buenafuente. And there are already several examples. The tailor Bere Casillas has got to be a reference to twitter and, above all, on Youtube, thanks to an interview he did the presenter Catalan. The same thing happened to Pau Garcia-Milà, the cofounder of eyeOS, that up to be a crack kid programming is a very media. Read the rest of this entry »

I recognize that for some years I find it hard to concentrate on things that require full attention. Just find the optimal time during which I try to travel without an Internet connection to make progress in certain complex jobs. And this I think it deserves a thorough analysis, as there is already a few voices are warning that such and such social networking site may be affecting your brain.

The theory, espoused by thinkers such as Andrew McAfee, Nicholas Carr and Doris Nhan, assumes that the excess of knowledge is difficult to process information. Our brain is the processor is and yet the number of data we’re getting is growing, so that our attention span and concentration is reduced.

The same thing happens to our relationships. Maintain contact with a small group of friends and family is relatively simple. One call, a coffee or a weekend meeting are sufficient to keep the relationship alive. But with hundreds of friends on Facebook or Twitter or by e-mail, things extraordinarily complicated. We can refer our getting our messages or blog, but that relationship is unidirectional. Read the rest of this entry »

This social software in enterprises is one of the things that have interested us in Alliance since we created the company in 2004. And much has been achieved. First with the famous corporate blogs, now in decline, and ultimately to social networks. However, not many studies.

Orange Foundation in its latest report includes some interesting eEspaña. For example, a ranking of social networks used by professionals and Spanish companies which corresponds to a study by Oak Power Communication:

1. Facebook: 85%
2. Twitter: 35%
3. Youtube: 25%
4. Linkedin: 13%
5. Xing: 6%
6. Viadeo: 3%
7. Other (¿Tuenti?): 8% Read the rest of this entry »