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 [...]
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By David Grajal on April 9, 2008
Today I’ve been in Madrid’s Simyo’s office for the awards ceremony and to meet Alberto Lorente and Karl Bornefalk from Simyo’s team. They took pictures for the press release (Pictures I seriously expect not to appear in any media, I have such an horrible look on them!) and we had a small non-technical interview with [...]
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By David Grajal on March 25, 2008
The video in which I explained what Call for free with Simyo is that you could see here last week is really dated. The application has improved a lot so I needed to produce a new video showing the improvements in the user interface. Furthermore the old video was really boring. It was a mistake [...]
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By David Grajal on March 24, 2008
I’ve just read an article in the march edition of The Economist in which the author was comparing what happen in late 90 with closed networks like Compuserve and AOL (Infovia was the Spanish equivalent) with what is happening now with social networks and virtual worlds. As now I’m into social networks not only as [...]
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By David Grajal on March 23, 2008
Simyo’s contest was supposed to finish last Tuesday but the organizers decided to give the developers an extra week. I complained a bit because they destroyed my vacations, but I realize soon after that it was going to be good to have an extra week to improve the application. What had the application improved this [...]
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By David Grajal on March 18, 2008
Since I went to the introduction of Facebook in Spain a month ago, I’ve been designing and programming a small prototype of a VoIP application to offer free calls for social network users without installing any software or buy any hardware. The cost of the call is covered with direct advertisement. This is the application [...]
Posted in facebook | Tagged internet, software |
