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 |
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 [...]
Posted in facebook, web | Tagged internet, software |
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 [...]
Posted in facebook, voip, web | Tagged internet, software |
