A día de hoy, sobre las 12 del mediodía, he empezado con un experimento en Twitter. Era una idea que tenía hace unos días, y hoy, aprovechando el día libre, he decidido empezar con ella.

¿Alguien sabe qué es el experimento? Yo y pocos más, así que será duro que haya algún tipo de filtración acerca de lo que es. Por el momento el experimento (que ha empezado en Twitter) tiene 52 seguidores y unos 271 amigos. Raúl Andrés (de Garage30) fue el primer afortunado.

La idea del experimento para las próximas horas es agregar a todos aquellos friends de los friends que tengo en Twitter, y sólo aquellos que sean followers de @experiment en Twitter, pasarán a la siguiente fase. Queda claro que cualquier follower que añada al experimento, también será añadido.

Además, ya hay web para El experimento, sólo nos falta un logo y un buen eslogan. ¿Alguien se atreve a especular sobre… el experimento?

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Qué la red estaba en movimiento todo el mundo lo sabía, pero que realmente se estaban produciendo tantos cambios para la Internet española en tan poco tiempo, no creo que nadie se lo haya esperado.

Hablo de a corto plazo porque en cuestión de una semana hemos podido conocer cuatros grandes noticias, una de las cuales desde la propia Migoa. Son noticias de las cuales se ha hablado tanto y en tan poco tiempo, que si no fueran por que son tan jugosas, apenas las comentaría. Hoy lo hago, pero a nivel de reflexión.

Primero FiveLab abre sus puertas y da a conocer finalmente a todos sus integrantes. Por otro lado encontramos a Migoa, que recibe la inversión de Albert Armengol (uno de los fivelabbers). Además, nos enteramos por Eduardo Manchón (de Panoramio), que los acaba de comprar Google, pese a no saberse cifras, y por último Networking Activo compra Eventtos (de Javier Martin). Si no ha sido una semana movidita, que venga aquí el que opine lo contrario.

Gente como Javier Martín y Mariano Amartino han sabido hablar muy bien acerca de las ideas de Fivelab, Migoa ha recibido bastante conversación en Loogic y el blog de Carlos Blanco, y finalmente Panoramio, ha tenido noticia empezando por el blog de Google, de nuevo Loogic, y acabando con el suyo propio, el de Eduardo Manchón.

Para mi todo esto, junto con tanto evento de networking y emprendedores (no olvidar pasar por Iniciador), está realmente en movimiento y parece que de una forma más sólida, así que de momento no hay burbuja a la vista. ¿Alguien opina lo contrario?

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Pues que menos que lo dicho en el título. Desde hace un tiempo, y tal como comenta nuestro CEO Gary Stewart, Albert Armengol ha invertido en Migoa. Estoy realmente feliz que después de todo este tiempo y de pasar por nuestro advisory board, finalmente esté como socio en la empresa.

Hace cuestión de un mes, Albert vendió una de sus empresas, eConozco, a Xing, un portal líder del networking internacional y primera empresa web2.0 que forma parte de la bolsa europea. Aún que no se hizo público el precio de compra, una parte de ello va para Migoa, con lo que sin duda ayudará a su crecimiento.

Para aquellos que aún no tengan ni idea de que es Migoa (start-up para la que trabajo), sólo decir que es un buscador vertical de inmobiliaria, empleo y automóvil, la función básica del cual es hacer búsquedas en un rango de webs de cada una de estas temáticas. Con servicios como este conseguimos búsquedas realmente precisas que nos ayudaran en la ardua tarea de la búsqueda de casa, empleo o coche.

Dentro de poco os daré más noticias sobre Migoa ya que el mercado de los buscadores verticales se está poniendo caliente, y empiezan a saltar chispas desde los rincones más recónditos. Tan solo con ver la situación en USA podemos darnos cuenta del crecimiento de la situación.

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I have been so busy this lasts days and I haven’t be able to write at least one post for day. It’s truth that I have some minutes at day for write, but I have preferred rest and take more power for these next days, I will have to explain many things.

In all my blogger life I have learned that you have to enjoy writing, and if some day you don’t want post any content, it’s only your decision. You choose if post or not post, how much content do you want write and at what hour you will post. In fact, surely you are a blogger, right?

Some days ago I commented something about my new projects, and I believe that today it’s a good moment for explain about one of my two projects. Nowadays, I’m working for Goa Internet Services, developers of Migoa, the next great vertical search engine and winners of Innovate Europe ‘06 and, of course, finalists of Red Herring VME 2007. For these people that don’t know what is a vertical search engine, I going to tell you, that is a search engine like Google but specialized in properties, cars and jobs. This means that only the service search in these webpages that are from one of this thematics, and therefore you can obtain a great quality results and it’s so more faster that other common search engines.

I’m working since February with them, but a great question can be, what is my work in Migoa? Well, you will know soon, in the next days surely you will have notices about me and the launching of Migoa. But for these people that already meet me, you probably know that I’m a techie, and this I don’t say, it says my CEO, Gary Stewart, and a great entrepreneur in spirit and mind.

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We already know that using Internet we can do great things and resolve all type of mathematical problems, but now we can help to the humanity for plant a great hearth of trees, exactly 8 million trees at Niger.

This initiative are with us thanks to Tree Nation, a project that have grown at Barcelona and allow to you plant a tree from your house and so, improve the health of our planet and the desertification. Tree Nation are now in Techcrunch and I suppose that this will cause a growing of the community. I hope sincerely that the present members and trees planted grow in quantity in these days.

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Probably, a lot of us work in projects that you could be managed via web with a manager service, that it offers us some features as share documents and complete a to-do list. Well, then you probably also know that one of the most famous projects managers of the Web 2.0 era, it’s Basecamp.

Basecamp allow you to maintain several projects and manage it easily. For months it have been used for many people, but the accurate question is, You still continues using it? And surely a other good question would be, It’s really useful or works which you hoped? If you read these lines and you can answer to this questions, you don’t have doubts please, tell me!

I only used the free account but these days I was thinking use one of the premium accounts for some projects that I developing (Yes, now I’m developing more than one project). But the main problem that one friend told me it’s that really is a ‘hosting’ service, that you pay according the projects that you can manage and the hosting disk space. If you think it fine, this could be a great trouble in the future and suppose a new source of expenses.

This friend, Anton Malinovskiy (with any doubt a expert programmer), he told me that a good option would be use JIRA, that do the same that do Basecamp or even more. I wait to test it and I write you how works and if it’s really a good option for use or at least test.

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My first intention that motivate me for go to this event, it was that I want meet new people related with my business perspective and search some future investors.

With any doubt, I found more people of the first profile (entrepreneurs) than the second profile (investors). Really, with this last point, I’m not so much worried because I met a lot of interesting people that are working in a good and special business.

My team and I, I arrived half an hour late according the start of the event, and we skipped the first networking of the night. Carlos Blanco, done a good work and he presented two good entrepreneurs accompanied of Jesús Monleon, a financier of La Caixa (also co-founder of Emagister) and his entrepreneurs plans.

The first entrepreneur is a good example of a entrepreneur in La Caixa. His mainly work in his firm (Daem Interactive) is the recognition of objects or logos, for link it automatically by means of photos with the content of the object in concrete. It’s a very good firm that offers his services mainly, to the main mobile phone firms like Movistar, Amena (now Orange) and Vodafone.

The other entrepreneur is Lucas Carné, co-founder of Privalia, a cheap system for buy shoes or cosmetics with a very good discounts. Have a simply business model that seems work perfectly in Spain with a great margin of benefits. In fact, recently this farm, received over €400.000 of his investors.

About 21:30pm or 22:00pm a group of thirteen persons went to the VIP room of the Carpe Diem Lounge Club. We enjoyed a precious supper that finished over 00:00pm more or less.

At this supper, there were some interest people like Gary Stewart and his partner of Migoa, Albert Miquel y Diago Mariño of , Toni Mascaró of Mascaró CrossMedia, Carlos Blanco of Grupo ItNet and all the rest that were at the supper.

For this moment I’m waiting for the next First Tuesday and I hope continue in contact with many of these people.

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This evening, 6th of February of 2007, over 19:30pm it will celebrate First Tuesday in the Carpe Diem Lounge Club, a great restaurant and lounge club, located in Passeig Maritim 32, on Barcelona. I’m going go for first time accompanied of my financial adviser for search some business angel or venture capital firm that want bet for us in a new Internet project, that will be released in the next days.

At this event will be presented some conferences about venture capital firms, business angels and entrepreneurship (all this, organized by Carlos Blanco). After this, over 21:30pm, there are a calm dinner (whit limited places) that surely will be very interesting for a lot of assistants. I hope meet so people and specially the investor that we need for continue with our project.

How I’m living in Calafell, and I have approximately one hour of travel until Barcelona, while I found how arrive to the event and I search some place to park, I going to take the car already.

I comment you all about this First Tuesday when I arrive to my home this night and I will upload the photos that I will be able to take for these hours. More about this subject within some hours.

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