Telegram se niega a censurar al candidato rumano
Como escribí en Francia censura Telegram (publicación del 25/08/2024), la tentación de algunos gobiernos occidentales de acallar ciertas voces en Internet es cada vez menos sutil. En aquel entonces comenté mi preocupación y enfado al ver cómo Francia parecía dispuesta a censurar Telegram bajo pretextos legales. Pues bien, menos de un año después, los acontecimientos…
The coming revolution in the world of video games.
The combination of three ray tracing technologies for light, voxels for particles, and procedural generation to create the game maps will lead to a revolution never seen before in the world of video games and will make them almost indistinguishable from reality when in addition...
75 years later the world turned around
Today marks 75 years since Wells' War of the Worlds. A person born on that day probably still looks good today. Wells' world is impossible today. No one would go out on the street today without corroborating what the radio says on their Twitter or Facebook timeline. Today the radio...
SocialSense: how to take a bite out of Google's business?
In the early days of last summer I was a bit idle, something that my hot mind does not allow easily. At that time I designed a business model similar to the Google advertising model but for social networks. I'm sure there are many people who have thought the same as me because we are all...
My reading of #spanishrevolution II Justification
There is a tool that works on Twitter tags and it is called hashtagify. If we start by telling it to paint us the tags most related to #leysinde we find the following: With a correlation of 16% with #leysinde we get the tag #nolesvotes, #nolesvotes correlates in turn to 17% with #spanishrevolution and #spanishrevolution....
Emerging Systems I: Twitter
Emerging Systems is a popular science book that has given me patterns to understand some things about the times we live in. It serves, for example, to understand Twitter. Twitter is an environment where an emergent or complex system develops. It has few rules and they are simple and less than 10, for example: 140 characters, one...
How Seesmic failed to find the revenue model
In this chapter it is told how if a company is born without a revenue model it is difficult for it to have one when it is bought by another company. That I will do very willingly, my lord," replied Sancho, "and let us return to my village in the company of these two gentlemen, who wish it well, and there we will give orders to....
Why should Google buy Twitter and not Facebook?
I think Twitter is going to be the great success of 2009 because I have already seen how it makes information fly, in fact I think it is the only application on the Internet that is faster than Google, a few days ago I was already talking about some advantages of Twitter, advantages that have become envy, and envy...
Twitter hacked. Moral of the story: don't succeed
A dirty war is being imposed in the race to win on the Internet, which in its time already affected Menéame, one of the best Spanish websites, which had to suffer DDoS attacks, and they even asked for money to leave them alone. A DDoS is based on infecting computers that are dedicated to...
World Champions
In the vertical social networks there must be only one left, we all like to be with the best (I'm afraid there won't be any in the horizontal ones) Added on May 9, 2008 The generalist social network killer is here, and it's called Data Availability, an initiative to make social networks...