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By David Grajal on May 24, 2011
The Hispanic Club recently held an event at CEIBS at which Elisa Reyna introduced petuky.com, the social network for pet lovers. She explained her business model to some CEIBS students and guests students from EADA Business school. The venture is profitable, the social network was initially a platform to interact with other pet lovers. Now [...]
Posted in CEIBS, web | Tagged Business/Finance, China Europe International Business School, Pret A Manger |
By David Grajal on May 12, 2011
Do you want to register something like a.com or b.net? You are too late, they were registered during the big bang of the commercial internet. Most of the short domain space is already registered… all of it? Not really. The .com,.net,.org domain space supports Unicode, and most of the Unicode character domain space is still [...]
Posted in web | Tagged Domain name system, internet, Technology/Internet, Typography, Unicode |
By David Grajal on May 5, 2011
In April I joined a Spanish team to participate in the OpsSimCom 2011 competition. This an online, real time simulation of a factory that we used before in Operation Management class to grasp arcane concepts as inventory control, queue management, system capacity and takt time. In the competition you are given an initial configuration of [...]
Posted in CEIBS, operations, technology | Tagged ceibs, competition, simulation |
By David Grajal on April 7, 2011
In March I attended the talk ‘When art meets social media’ by the artist An Xiao Mina. She explained the emerging trends in artistic explorations of social media in the internet, using social media as the medium and tool for the performance. This movement started in 2007 when artists started to play with the new [...]
Posted in facebook, technology | Tagged art, social media |
By David Grajal on March 31, 2011
Last week I visited dianping.com headquarters. This company wants to be in China what yelp plus groupon plus foursquare is on the rest of the world. They are doing a pretty good job so far. Some remarks: They have 1000 employees. Thay plan to have 1800 by the end of the year. I was really [...]
Posted in web | Tagged china, internet, web |
By David Grajal on March 28, 2011
Open battery Locate the positive and negative cables Locate a charger Connect the cables to the charger Pray It often works for me, when there is no other alternative.
Posted in fun | Tagged electronics |
