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 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 17, 2011
I attended Shanghai BarCamp 2011 event last weekend. The BarCamp meetings are un-organized, the content is provided by the participants. Anybody can start a talk or a workshop about open source, internet, media or any other topic. In this event I got inspired, I learned some technical stuff, I discovered cool projects (Try Google Square, [...]
Posted in linux, technology, web | Tagged barcamp, internet, shanghai, technology |
By David Grajal on June 27, 2008
Last week I attended the Firefox 3 release party in Seoul, in Daum Headquarters. Daum is the main search engine in Korea, way ahead in market penetration than Google and there were a lot of interesting people related to the Korean Internet world. The host gave us stickers, food and drinks. Mitchell Baker, CEO of [...]
Posted in technology, web | Tagged internet, korea |
