Go or no go?

I was in doubt I join or not the event. I read on a blog for entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend Madrid a meeting of entrepreneurs from various fields, technology, design, marketing, business and the goal of developing an idea from Friday June 3 in the afternoon, Saturday and Sunday in a marathon work to appear before a jury of 4 inverters on Sunday night.

I signed, I took the ticket Santiago - Madrid, booked hotel near the metro Gran Via and packed my things. On the flight I thought if you present an idea or not. It is somewhat difficult: first "deliver" your idea to an unknown public, second trial with the possibility of being devalued, third, the challenge given to understand and convey the idea in just 1 minute.

Have an idea

In the event that organized the girls in the pool They 2.0 (which is the flag to encourage and support women who dare to undertake) had emailed us with some very interesting slides about how to give your elevator pitch of 1 minute: present, pose a problem and your solution highlighting what makes it innovative and original. I wrote my idea and then I read my own pace with the iPhone stopwatch. Conclusion: impossible to say everything in 1 minute!. Then had to cut things and phrases, adjectives ... and ... best to write again.

Came that Friday afternoon and the meeting was interesting, I exchanged words with several participants, the usual questions of "you're doing?", "Going to present idea?", "Is the first time you come to an event like this? ". Madrid OnRails space was 100%, we were 90 entrepreneurs and soon to blow up the wifi router!. 33 we presented ideas, I was number 26 and while watching the parade of 60 seconds of my ancestors made me more and more nervous.

Opened fire: "My name is Juan Ignacio and I come to propose to create the toy of the future ..."

I left my 60 seconds of pure adrenaline, my heart was beating and beating me. The proposals were then voted and only a few survived the new stage, we became 17 and had to settle for multidisciplinary teams to tackle the rest of the weekend. I had four almost instantly: Mathew American designer, game designer Antonio, Juan Diego creative marketer and Jimmy a manufacturing expert and social relations. Later we join Clara, mother and web designer.

Undertake Saturday and Sunday

What I can say? For me it was clear that if these five people were on my team and support my idea was because they were crazier than me. But what a cute moment! It's amazing to see people get involved in your project and work involved and really believe in what they are doing. On Saturday and Sunday work hard, but we allow outputs, lectures and many jokes. Work having fun, surrounded by dolls, toys, with aluminum foil on their heads to try to improve the wifi signal and getting to know a bit more between us. Do not forget that just hours before we were totally unknown.

Thus was born PincheToys , a toy hybrid between real and virtual children. A "multi-world toy." We liked the idea, but as much as we liked also thought it was the wildest of the 10 that would be presented this Sunday 19hs before the investors .

It was 18.30hs and ended our Powerpoint. Now to try!? No. There was no time and also as I said Jimmy, "which comes out naturally." I like crazy ... I thought, "this will be a disaster."

Go out there

They began the presentations and we were number 6. The other very interesting projects, good proposals, but when they reached the returns of investors saw how quickly detect weaknesses and weak spots.

Our turn came, I had taken a shot of whiskey before going out there but only found Coca Light.

We start our presentation and miraculously was out, giving fluíamos ... would like an informal chat with explanatory and touches of humor. Applause. Our return was initiated by Dove Hair (MIT!) Who told us that although he had seen other usb dolls on the market liked the creativity in the proposal and also be useful both in the computer game as in real life. We had a very positive response! of course we said we would have to manage well the Logistic and distribution to stores to achieve our company.

I was very happy with everything, how he had gone, the good team that we put together, great work we had done. FIN, was done for me. Weekend over, very happy, it was worth all the effort.

And then the impossible happened: the jury selected us as the Best Project .

I CRE BLE IN.

A weekend of madness.

The Os Chrome is an operating system (OS) created by Google that has as its main feature is based on the network. This means that the only software you need is a web browser.

The manufacturer takes the premise that all activities are conducted daily on the Internet, our computer thus becomes a "dumb terminal" where we type only website addresses and execute our tasks.

At the moment there is a " pilot program "(for residents) to test the OS on which Google provides a Notebook Cr-48 (ugly name!) it takes to boot a brief 10 seconds. So what we see on screen is a minimalist web browser: Chrome.

How is Chrome OS?

As we begin our session on the computer with the user of Gmail, we access our mail, contacts, calendar and chat. The browser sync and keep our state in case the notebook fails, explode, was stolen or simply loguearamos us on another machine with Chrome OS and keep all the state it was: open tabs in the same order, the documents "auto -saved "with the last words typed and chat with someone asking" are you there? ".

To edit documents online have the Google Docs, where you can write text, complete spreadsheets, to "Powerpoint presentations." Also through the Chrome Market we have access to hundreds of free and paid applications that offer solutions to all the needs we have: productivity, lifestyle, communication and most importantly, games.

Some pros

TooDo TooDo updates alone, that is operating system-which is basically being a webbrowser, is periodically updated from the Internet to keep us safe and the latest innovations of the network to date.
The system is super lightweight and running quickly, we think that technically all the processor and computer memory is dedicated exclusively to sail, "comfortable" on the internet. And that's plenty of processing power and speed in 2011.

Some points against

Have all our files, photos, videos and uploaded to the network identity is a bit scary if someone managed to figure out our personal access code.

So ...

All this could not have existed a few years ago, it required fast computers with large memory, internet, a society that increasingly turns to the network to share knowledge, the development of HTML5, Web 2.0, the appearance of Cloud computing, mobile telephony, cheaper costs and all that to put our lives-compressed-on multiple servers in the world.

The Chrome OS is a good approach to a new operating system, to shake the saga Windows from Microsoft that was dominating the home market for over 20 years and, at least, concerned about the rise of OS X from Apple. It has good advantages especially for its speed and simplicity of use and the great integration of the powerful and multipurpose "world of Google."

Are those people who did not have PC or internet forever, but had to learn to use them when he is slightly larger

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It refers to individuals born in late 1980 that always lived with PCs and the Internet, which easily adopted d / natural This technology is

(And if you have more time you can see the definition of Wikipedia in English)

The web becomes participatory, user-created content on blogs, youtube and wikipedia.Se believes, collaborate and share democraticament

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(And if you have more time you can see a video here )

The mouse came with the popularity of the PC and was one of the reasons for any "simple individual" can handle easily the computer back in 1995. Before he had to make things as difficult as typing "cd wordpress" with the keyboard to access a directory. But now you could double click on a folder.

This great revolution that resulted in the time that peripheral (and just as my parents are about to understand the diferncia between a right click and left click) is about to disappear to be replaced by the multitouch.

While Apple always stood out to offer its users friendly interfaces (such as when he created the one-button mouse) managed to bring their screens millions of users with unprecedented multi-touchscreen mobile phone: the iPhone.

The Touchscreen existed

Has ciendo memory, many years before the release of the iPhone in 2007 and existed touch screens and the best known product was the Palm. The PDA never succeeded. Perhaps because they were imitating the click of a mouse but with a plastic tipped pen that put pressure on the screen (the stylus). And like a cursor, is only a place at once.

I remember seeing pictures from the iPhone online and think "but who wants to touch the screen with your hands?". I was crazy. Is that for decades we have been accustomed to pushing buttons (like Desmond on Lost: "Push the button!"). Cell phones were all with numeric keypad and some offered full QWERTY keyboards (and minutely useless).

So ... how to break the old paradigm of push buttons to dial a phone number? At that time there was a Palm touchscreen model that was also mobile phone and had very few sales. What is the difference besides the iPhone was much more fashionable?

The difference is the Multitouch. And the technology that came with it.

Without going into too much detail I'll try to explain the difference between multitouch system introduced by Apple with its iPhone and the touchscreen system "classic" (which are more like a click). The multi-touch screen is a continuous electrical flow over the entire surface where the visual pose a finger is interrupted. And that disruption is reflected in the device as a "touch". It has the ability to interrupt the current screen simultaneously (using multiple fingers at once) achieving the multitouch. No need to put pressure on the screen. REPEAT: no need to put pressure on the screen:. This new system dispensed with the use of plastic pencils or other items. With the fingers of the hand, so easy.

We must say q ue iPhone with multitouch was accompanied by an operating system for you. The best example to adopt this technology is to manipulate photos with your hands. When you open a photo and you zoom with two fingers is a completely natural experience. You do not have to click a magnifying glass, or a "plus" or type "200%". Slide your thumb and forefinger. It's simple intuitive is incredible. Go to the NEXT photo by dragging your finger or zoom back to the original with a "double tap" (two touch a row). Same for manipulating maps, draw or play Field Runner.

Once you start to use the multitouch and no turning back. You do not want to use more than the mouse. I find this ridiculous, outdated past. Why move a plastic gizmo when I could touch the screen to select what you want?.

Goodbye to the mouse, throw it away.

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For a full explanation of the system multitouch visit this link (in English)

Traditional media are losing ground and interest and social networks are becoming the daily check.

The great song of The Beatles on " Eclipse de Mar "chanted their choruses

"Today love, as always
the newspaper did not speak to you, or my "

Poetry recounted on newspapers and radio stations, news and events that reflect these media (with some irony and complaints) and how we cotideano of a couple and their love was not news.

But ... (there's always a but)

... But that does not. Now the newspaper is on Facebook, and in the news talking about you, me and all your friends!. Even your boss, your parents and grandparents.

The song is from the 1990 album White Lies and very popular in Argentina in the version played by Juan Carlos Baglietto .
At that time internet was in the crib and would lack about 15 years for the network of Mark Zuckerberg started to become popular worldwide.

Before you wake up and your dog carried the day.

Now from your cell phone, desktop or notebook you read the news headlines Face the wall and its recent activities. You can find out who was "working on his farm," to see the photos and videos most popular of the moment and find out if so and so is in a relationship with menganita or if Susan is in a difficult situation.

Since the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1440 to the emergence of newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century it was some 500 years. You could say that reigned for 150 years ... and the curve starts to descend. It will be the beginning of the end? will be replaced by Facebook and social networks?

Only digital natives know it.

Facebook Games Console

Facebook as a social platform is becoming a lot (too?) options. It works like a blog to post to work as a Flickr or Picasa to upload and share photos and acts as a forum to discuss and form groups to work as Twitter for live updates "what are you doing now" to work as a Web Email, calendar and alarm functions as, as the search for online dating and chat and supports third party applications.
Now it is becoming a new console games as they were in the past, Atari, and as is currently the Nintendo , the Xbox and Playstation .

By centralizing most activities-not-so-young, is beginning to engulf tambén the field of video games. Is that while a lit before his "Play" and loaded a game, Facebook is making to transform the "old PC" in a console online. If the social web browser tipeamos Tetris, Mario, Pacman, Scrabble, Pocker or almost any of the games with her best known, the entontraremos.

Attention: new markets

Enterprises are beginning to be alert to new possibilities that allows Facebook: mobile phones. While it is the fight between the mobile system of Google ( Android ) and the operating system of iPhone , the fact is that one can access your favorite social network from either, and even from any smartphone or from a Palm ( PDA) that is accessible from any platform play within Facebook.

Evolution

Initially Facebook applications were all very simple (if not ugly) almost all made in static HTML but slowly getting better developments. Furthermore, the API (development framework) was mutating and improving, was very unstable these days seems to balance a little. Began to appear in applications with Ajax and Flash and managed to be the most popular. The company Playfish has five of the 10 applications most popular games in the Ranking of Network Mark Zuckerberg and are all made ​​in Flash games, including "Who has the biggest Brain", "Pet Society" (furor among women ), "Word Challenge", "Bowling" and "Geo Challenge". And very few do anything unless the giant Adobe, the-now-owner of the Macromedia Flash and Flex, announced their own libraries as developers to support applications for the Social Network.

This is just beginning, but gradually going to grow. Million social network users, hungry for games, fun custom of powers between school friends, neighborhood or work.

On your PC, your laptop, PDA, mobile and even in the soup ... Facebook.

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UPDATE: And if you like the game stunt from The Tecnoloco we invite you to play Trucacho . And now you can play it from the Facebook or without registering.