Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts

Madrid Facebook Developer Garage was pure crap

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Yesterday I was in the event organized by Facebook in Madrid, The Madrid Facebook Developer Garage. The event was organized by FON, the Wifi company owned by Martin Varsavsky. I think Mr. Varsavsky is doing a great job trying to give visibility of the European and specially Spanish companies in Silicon Valley. The event took place in Teatro Lara, a old-fashioned theater in the heart of Madrid. A nice place, nothing to do with a garage.
Just like the content of the event: nothing to do with a developers garage. It was more like an introduction to Facebook. They sold the announcement of Facebook in spanish like an event for developers. Crap. Not a single word about how to develop applications. It was clearly an event focused on entrepreneurs and companies, not on developers. If I read 'garage' and 'developer', it sounds to me like something closer to the bare metal, right? But it wasn't.
A waste of time. I hope Facebook will learn from this mistake and will make things better next time.

Social bugfixing tool: Can corank.com work?

Monday, November 05, 2007

When you start with a third party open source library or project, first thing you do is to check the its activity. If the project is dead or it's a zombie (somebody still there just to make questions in the forums) then it's better to start looking for a new one.
If the project is active and you decide to use it, sometimes (well, most of the times) you cannot dedicate time to give your feedback to the project. You need new functions in that beautiful library, but you don't have time to implement it and you have already seen in the bug list that somebody have already asked for the same kind of enhanced functionality.
The question is: When will The Gods of the library/project will implement those enhancements? And why is it not implemented yet? Nobody knows...
I came across with www.corank.com several months ago. It's a tool to build your own web 2.0 Digg style voting system. And I think it would be a good idea to use it as a voting system to classify the criticity of bugs and enhancements in a complex multi-customer system like popular open source projects.
Do you know of anybody using it this way? Or any other tool?

Myfrienemies: craziest social network?

Monday, July 30, 2007

According to their introductory speech, My Frienemies 'Myfrienemies is a social networking site that allows you to connect with people who pretend to like the same people as you. Rather than dwelling on the negative, we invite you to foster new friendships based on shared dislikes, annoyances and disappointments. '
The funniest link is frienemy of the week where you can read what people think of the person on this page: A Psycho, Depressive, User, Hostile-Aggressive, Liar, Drunk, Black hole, Paranoid. This girl. I cannot see what can make somebody the frienemy of the week, I hope it's not aggressive blogging against them...
And finally, the list of labels to tag your frienemies...
Black holes
Cheaters
Complainers
Depressives
Drunks
Hostile-Aggressives
Indecisives
Know-It-All-Experts
Lazys
Liars
Negativists
One Uppers
Paranoids
Pathological Liars
Psychos
Scenesters
Silent and Unresponsives
Soul Suckers
Super-Agreeables
Total Bores
Users

This social network thing is getting crazy.