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Ricardo Hoyos Mejía en la FIL 08

2008-12-08T16:55:00.001-08:00

Ricardo comparte algunos de los datos relevante de la participacion del Grupo Editorial Norma al programa de Google Book Search en la feria de Guadalajara.

Jaime Ivan Hurtado en FIL 08

2008-12-08T16:26:00.001-08:00

Pedro Huerta y el Futuro del Libro

2008-12-05T00:20:00.000-08:00

Esa es una presentacion de Pedro Huerta (GM de Random House Mondadori en Mexico) durante un evento sobre el futuro del libro en la fiera FIL de Guadalajara.
Escuchen bien lo que dice. Ya, con eso, tendremo que cambiar de nobre a los eventos de "El futuro del Libro" con "El presente del libro"...

Iphone Voice Recognition and Books

2008-11-29T02:15:00.000-08:00

IE Silicon Valley tour: 4) VC in SV

2008-05-17T23:44:00.000-07:00

Michele Libraro presented what is likely the most important factor of the Silicon Valley repeated success in spurring innovation: the financial community.

Michele, now CEO of GlobalStartUps, has had a long hands-on experience in large telco corporations (i.e. CISCO) and the VC world.

I believe the topic he addressed is worth a course all together.

Here's a much longer version of what Michele actually had time to present:

VC TRAINING COURSE ORIENTATION [PDF]
- private equity & venture capital
- industry trends
- capitalizing a start-up
- organizational issues

IE Silicon Valley tour: 3) Google Geo

2008-05-15T23:34:00.000-07:00

Among Google's presentation, we had Bernardo Hernandez (now Head of Geomarketing at Google) presenting the amazing innovations coming from Google Geo.

Once all the information are geo-referenced, how differently will we manage our access to every day tools? how UGC and community building will affect the growth and quality of geo-referenced information?

Here's a snippet of Berni's presentation:

IE Silicon Valley tour: 2) Innovation at YouTube

2008-05-14T23:19:00.000-07:00

The first company on-site visit we planned was (guess where?) at the Google's headquarters in Mountain View.
After breakfast and a guided tour of the facilities (yes, with tour-guides...), we assembled a few company presentations. The overall topic was "how to preserve innovation".

Here's the presentation from my good friend Luis Garcia, international product manager at You Tube.
Luis had a very interactive presentation, to his words, using the group as beta-testers...
YouTube is probably one of the most amazing examples of a perfect-timing innovation whose deep disruptions are still to be fully witnessed.

Here's Luis's presentation:

YOU TUBE INNOVATION [PDF]
- video as a social act
- dimension of the YT phenomena
- building communities
- seeds for innovation

IE Silicon Valley tour: 1) Intro to Silicon Valley

2008-05-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

The week of May 12-17 I've been involved with the organization of the second Silicon Valley tour for the students of the Instituto de Empresa business school.
This year students included both the regular and the executive classes of the Master in Management Telecom and Digital Business.

The program of the 5 day-visit is particularly interesting and filled with on-site visits to innovating companies in the Valley (see Syllabus).

I had the pleasure to start off the week presenting my point of view on the
"THE SECRET JUICE OF THE Silicon Valley". [PDF]

Addressed points in the presentation:
- History of the SV
- The Pillars of the SV
- Soft success factors
- VC investments overlook
- Suggestions for the week

Overall, we did have an interesting discussion, apparently totally unaffected by the jet lag (they arrived the day before from Madrid). But, as we all know, people in Madrid eat pure energy for breakfast...(Seriously, I never figured out how Madrilenos manage to party til morning and be in the office at 8.30 day in, day out... but that's worth a different post...)

Starting (up) from ROMA

2008-05-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

On April 15th we held the 1st Mind the Bridge workshop in Rome.

The event took place in one of the endless wonderful palaces in Rome, now base of the Center for Italian-American Studies.

Getting back to Rome after a few years, mostly spent in the "new world", kind of made an impression on me. We need a constant memory refresh to remind the beauties that surround us in Italy.
The same applies for the event we had. I was extremely pleased that in such a short time we were able to put together likely the best of the current Italian entrepreneurship ecosystem.
On one side, in the morning we had presentations from the best of breed of Italian seed and VC investors (here's the list of participants).
Their presentations were very practical, informational and down-to-earth.
In the afternoon, the ball moved into the start-up field. We participated to parallel presentations of 28 start-ups, most of them participants of the first edition of the MtB business plan competition.
Here's a list of the presenting start-ups, and a short description.

Now, it goes without saying that we have some margins for improvement, in selecting, presenting and receiving the new great business ideas our country is producing.
But it was refreshing to see gathered a smart group of prospective entrepreneurs on one side and a growing group of local investors on the other, talking the same language, try to build critical mass, sharing information candidly.
I had the impression that a new wave is just starting, and it's just thrilling that Mind the Bridge is among the drivers of such a change.

Finalist MtB Italian Start-ups in Silicon Valley

2008-04-02T09:56:00.000-07:00

On April 1st in San Francisco, Mind the Bridge introduced the finalists from its first annual business plan competition. Following two months of mentoring by seasoned, successful entrepreneurs, the competition finalists presented their start-up business ideas to the public for the first time. This showcase event marks the beginning of their Silicon Valley roadshow during which these budding entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to meet and pitch venture capitalists and potential investors.
A full house welcomed the fantastic-5.
More info at:
http://www.mindthebridge.org/final_event.html

Chavismo and Libros

2008-02-20T23:11:00.000-08:00

In my ongoing tour around the Latin American book publishing markets, I had the opportunity to stop a few days in Venezuela.

The first thing that struck me was the incredible high cost of living. A taxi ride from the airport to Caracas goes for 120 USD, a room at the Marriott for almost 400 USD, renting a room for a presentation at the Intercontinental, north of 2000 bucks.

I mean, those are prices worth of high business season in Manhattan… in Buenos Aires (3hrs away from Caracas) the same level of services would go for 30% of that. In Bolivia, were I was the week before, less than ¼.

So what’s going on? It didn’t take me much to figure it out. Everybody, from the taxi driver, to the book publisher would tell you. And in fact, they did tell me. It’s all about the Comandante! Since Chavez won his first elections (coincidentally the last exact time I happened to be in Venezuela, 9 years ago) he started a long process of deep political - economical manipulations that have been reshaping the whole scenario of the Latin American economies.

One of the consequences evident even to the most clueless of the visitors is the black market for dollar. All locals would translate the costs of a taxi ride from bolivares into dollars at a rate than is 2:1 from what the official exchange rate, thus making my same 120USD taxi ride cost me about 50, had I exchanged my dollars with any of the hundreds folks who offered me at the airport rather than at the usual ATM…

Not even in Cuba I had seen such an extensive use of a black market..

Now the second thing that really struck me though, was during my presentation in front of the 30 major book publishers of the country. Supposedly, the growing number of government owned publishing houses, have been used for propaganda, flooding the market with hundreds of new titles, some of which had to be printed in Cuba for lack of domestic fast book throughput.

Every corner of the Venezuelan society transpires of the eternal fight between the 2 political-economical blocks. Yet, at least for what I could see, the 2 worlds of commercial and governmental book publishers seem to be strangely in peace, sitting around the same tables, asking similar questions, eating the same arepa-based breakfast without evident conflict.

Well. Thanks god I had time to ruminate those thoughts (and more) zipping margaritas in the nice Margarita island for the week end… this time, exchanging money in the black market (equals 2X margaritas…)

Mind the Bridge Finalists - announcement

2008-01-17T15:03:00.001-08:00

Thur Jan 10th, we declared the finalists for the MindtheBridge Business Plan Competition.

Here's my post about the event of SiliconValleyStudyTour network.

Silicon Mind su LA7

2008-01-07T11:50:00.000-08:00

Interessante servizio di Frediano Finucci andato in onda il 6 Gennaio su LA7. Si parla anche di Mind the Bridge (cosi come di BAIA, SVIEC e dell'amico Capobianco) nella parte finale.

Un'Italia di Idee

2007-12-25T15:26:00.001-08:00

Piu’ di 50. Sono questi i progetti pervenuti alla Business plan competition di Mind the Bridge in meno di un mese.

Dalla Sicilia al Trentino, dalle biotecnologie all’intelligenza artificiale, i progetti comprono in lungo e il largo territori di provenienza e aree di competenza.

E’ incoraggiante comprovare che la creativita’ italica, lo spirito di iniziativa, non si sono spenti. Ed e’ emozionante vedere che, in un tempo tanto ristretto, siamo riusciti a canalizzare idee di valore da giovani imprenditori, imprenditori seriali, ricercatori e professori affermati.

Siamo consci che si tratta solo del punto di partenza. Ora stara’ a noi cercare di fare gruppo e fare del nostro meglio per valorizzare questa materia prima in mariera tale che possa dare frutto ed ispirare.

Ma non c’e’ dubbio che questa e’ una iniezione di fiducia per tutti coloro che stanno attivamente collaborando a Mind the Bridge (dal comitato organizzatore, ai selezionatori ora in piena attivita’) dedicando le loro energie a titolo totalmente gratuito (ricordiamolo) per un’iniziativa su cui poniamo grandi speranze.

Io personalmente proporro’ che uno degli obiettivi misurabili dell’iniziativa sia il seguente:

ogni progetto finalista dovra’ raggiungere almeno uno tra: una proposta di investimento (VC o seed), una partnership significativa o un advisor autorevole.

Se questo avverra’, potremmo dire di essere in linea con gli obiettivi di medio termine che ci siamo preposti.

Il target e’ ambizioso, cosi come speriamo sia la nostra Italia.

Auguri a tutti!

Mind the Bridge - SI PARTE

2007-11-19T23:32:00.000-08:00

The dark side of ITALY

2007-11-14T10:30:00.000-08:00

Android is a great project and I expect it would spur innovation in the mobile space.
Hopefully more and better option for us, the users, but also opportunities for new business to start.
Considering how the whole "widget development" mania is creating the next boom (at barely zero cost), this is no joke.

Google is sponsoring a 10M$ prize for the best ideas. Great.
However, we learn that Italy cannot participate. Reasons? too much bourocrazy.

In his blog, Fabrizio Giudici explains in details what it's all about.

We are not alone in the exclusion. Also Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar (Burma) are excluded but because of U.S. laws.
Italy is the only one (together with Quebec, that is not a country but a region) that is not included because of its absurd, medieval rules.

Here are my questions.

How can we expect to save this country that once was the hub of new ideas and now is literally dying of (natural) aging?
In the decade of the Viagra and Cialis, how is it possible that we are not able to reinvigorate our natural strenghts, no matter the age?
How short-sighted are we to realize that we are left at the bottom of the pyramid when talking profiting (not creating!) from opportunities to spur new business ideas?

The more I witness these matters from the outside, the more I'm convinced that we need a radical socio-economical change if we want to have a chance to lift Italy from the semi-conscious torpor in which it fell.

Silicon Valley Study tour 2007

2007-09-12T23:41:00.001-07:00

La settimana scorsa si e' concluso il 3 ciclo del Silicon Valley Italian Study Tour, un'iniziativa che mi sembra particolarmente significativa. Quest'anno ho avuto il piacere di ospitare il gruppo nella loro prima giornata e di avere lunghe serate con sessioni di brain-storming con Paolo Marenco, l'ideatore e coordinatore del tour. Oso sperare che le le discussioni con Paolo su possibili scenari di sviluppo futuro portino almeno la meta' di quello che speriamo...
Nel frattempo, sembra che i ragazzi abbiano apprezzato le 2 settimane di full immersion con testimonianze dirette di successi di start up, societa' ben installate e mondo finanziario.

L'opportunita' e' cosi ghiotta, che, a mio avviso, bisognerebbe darle piu' visibilita' mediatica possibile e magari comparlirla anche con chi non e' potuto venire.
E forse e' proprio perche' questa e' l'opportunita' che noi avremmo voluto avere ai tempi dell'universita', che fa si che un orda di Italiani manager di societa' qui nella valle continua a dare la propria disponibilita' totale a compartire le proprie esperienze e riflessioni.

Questo e' il video dell'ultima sessione, con brainstorming e commenti finali anche dei partecipanti.

To be continued...

Fixed, Fijo, Fisso Book Price?

2007-08-22T16:21:00.001-07:00

Estuve al 35-o encuentro nacional de editores y libreros brasileiros en Sao Paulo. Uno de los temas principales ha sido la necesitad o menos de una revisión de la ley sobre el precio fijo de los libros en Brasil comparado a lo que esta' pasando en los demás países.
Sera' que he empezado a pasar demasiado tiempo en Estados Unidos (que con Inglaterra es uno de los pocos países a NO tener una ley de precio fijo), pero me parece que los beneficios que esta medida pueda llevar, no contrabalanceen las posibles ineficiencias.
En particular, me parece que la cuestión ya sea de otra época, y los problemas principales del mundo editorial sean. hoy día de otras naturaleza (caída de la venta, rol del editor, competencias con otros "medios", etc.)

Interesante ver como dos players principales del mundo editorial brasileiro, Rocco Machado (editorial Record) y Paulo Rocco (Rocco editores) la vean exactamente en la misma manera...

Otros videos del evento:

* El autor Luis Fernando Benissimo tocando Jazz:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=klnI5vf8bjI

* Rodrigo Velloso y BookSearch en Brazil
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uqs_X8IUKVY

Green BAIA

2007-07-15T22:01:00.001-07:00

Last week I had the opportunity to participate to an event organized by BAIA, the Business Association Italy America. It was my first event there, and, I have to admit, I was pretty well impressed by the quality of the discussion. The topic of the event was the super hot “Solar and other alternative clean energies”.

Michele Appendino (whose path I had crossed a few time in my past lives, here in the picture) opened the discussion. Michele, founder of one of the fist VC in Europe, is now spending his energy promoting Solar Ventures, a general management firm for handling large solar panel projects. The fact that the idea is coming from one of the few Italian high-risk financial entrepreneurs, speaks plenty about how much of a business opportunity clean energy is becoming.
By the way, in the last months Michele co-started Face2Face and First Generation, two great initiatives, supported by the US embassy to promote the connection amongst first generation Italian entrepreneurs in order to spur innovation.

The SF department of environment showed a few interesting projects the city is undertaking and a great website http://www.sf.solarmap.org/ for planning solar panels installations for residential users (I’m one of those…)

However, the big hit of the panel was apparently Karel Vanheusden, CEO of InnovaLight, a very hot, multi honored startup. Karel presented the ultra-low cost thin film solar power modules, going in deep technical details, but clearly communicating that the price/performance ratio for Solar panel will dramatically decrease in very short time.

Net, net, I felt so green that, coming home, I planted some new basil plans.

YOU TUBE your Book!

2007-06-15T08:43:00.001-07:00

Simon and Schuster is (to my knowledge) the first large publishing house using You Tube to promote their books.

They actually set up a .tv channel, (check it out) in addition to a whole subscription channel on You Tube. My feeling is that this is a great example of cross media promotion, that can really work (I got hooked already into a couple of their books, just watching a well done 2mts video).

Easy to produce, direct, eye catching; no doubts video is becoming the media for promotion in our days.

Go S&S! They are leading the way also ahead of the usual suspects (Amazon, Amazon and Amazon).

The Espresso Book Machine. Sugar for you?

2007-06-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

A number of different sources reported about the new "Espresso Book Machine". The machine was showcased at the BEA conference in NYC which I attended last week. According to the sources:

The new machine as a technological innovation promises to revolutionize how we buy books. It allows printing and binding a single copy of a book at the point of demand without human interactions. Buying a book will eventually be very similar to getting cash from an ATM. You choose a title, insert a credit card to pay for the book -- and walk away with the finished book a few minutes later. On a global scale this would eliminate shipping and warehousing costs for books (thereby also eliminating returns and pulping of unsold books) and allow simultaneous global availability of new books. POD offers the opportunity to deliver development knowledge and content to students, practitioners, media, and simply interested individuals in a way they could not be reached before.

The articles report that the machine, which is intended for use in bookstores, libraries and other retail outlets, will sell for less than $100,000 and that currently has access to over 200,000 out-of-copyright books through the Open Content Alliance, a number of Arabic-language books from the Library of Alexandria and 2,200 World Bank titles (!).

Here are some sources: Publisher Weekly, CNN Money, the World Bank (!)
Here's a video of how it works.

It's been defined as "the future of the book". It sounds familiar, doesn't it. Let's bet: how many years before finding some similar at Walmart or El Corte Ingles or La Rinascente?

Michele Libraro @ Instituto de Empresa

2007-05-22T23:34:00.001-07:00

Michele Libraro (GlobalStartup) presenting the VC-for-dummies story to students of the Master in Telco and Digial business from IE business school.

We should do more of those...

Instituto de Empresa visit in Silicon Valley

2007-05-22T23:27:00.001-07:00

Last week a class from the Instituto de Empresa Business School (of which I'm an alumni) was in a week-long visit in the Silicon Valley. I helped setting up a few presentations.

This is Fabrizio Capobianco (Funambol) presenting his Start-up success story in the Googleplex.

Es este "El Futuro del Libro"?

2007-05-09T22:08:00.000-07:00

En el curso de la feria del Libro de Buenos Aires tuvimos la oportunidad de organizar una charla en los días profesionales.

Como ya experimentado en España varias veces, en Brasil y Colombia, la idea es de poder poner en la misma mesa representantes de editores, autores, libreros, instituciones y tecnólogos para que se pueda discutir de lo que nos espera en mundo del libro, no en términos filosóficos ni demagógicos, sino prácticos con datos y experiencias a la mano. Una idea no particularmente original, uno pensaría; bueno, si, se no estas en el mundo del libro, donde las dinámicas de mercado son así cristalizadas que el movimiento de un 1% de cota de mercado de un editor crea un maremoto…fíjate cual puede ser la reacción a verdaderos cambios de la reglas de mercado, como la disitermediación entre editoriales y libreros o, aun mas, por los autores directamente, la llegada de la masa critica en la producción bajo demanda y los cambios generacionales frente al uso de nuevos medios…

Todos callados, o gritando en una defensa desesperada del propio castillo que por siglos aparecía inviolable…

Quizá que pensaban hace diez años las empresas discográficas de esta regla de negocio tan sencilla: ser cociente y reactivo a las dinámicas cambiantes del panorama donde operamos y reinventarse (por tiempo) su propio rol en el “value chain”.

Bueno, cuando el amigo Ernesto Skidelsky mostró la foto de la ultima tienda de “Tower Record” con la escrita “Out-of-business” unas risas nerviosas se han levantado entre los 140 asistentes (en mayoría editores) a nuestra charla…

Al repetir por la segunda vez:

“Tower Record había declarado que Internet no era crucial por su negocio. Señores Tower Record ha serrado, serrado!”

las risas ya se habían convertido en una pesadilla.

Bueno, entre la introducción de Clarín sobre como otros medias están aprovechando de nuevo modelos de ingresos, los comentarios de un editor de la nueva generación como el sabio Leopoldo Kulesz (www.elzorzal.com), la presencia de Gustavo Vorobechik mostrando los avances de la impresión bajo demanda y también las palabras positivas de Ana Maria Cabanellas (presidenta del IPA) que históricamente tenia una postura bastante critica sobre BookSearch, bueno parece que por lo menos se puede ver una luz al final del túnel.

Y creo que con esta sensación se han quedados los asistentes a la charla, todos pidiendo de seguir en la discusión cuanto antes.

Eso si, me parece ser el futuro (positivo) del libro.

Global Philanthropy Forum, that is, Philanthropy 3.0

2007-04-14T00:45:00.000-07:00

In the last 3 days I had the opportunity to participate to the 6^th edition of the Global Philanthropy Forum who took place in the Mountain View Google offices. More than 600 of the most influential people in Philanthropy, business and social entrepreneurship gathered from across the world.

From the very first moment it became very clear we are living a topic moment in the so called “philanthropic” world. We are assisting at a total convergence between the private and the social sector. To Judith Rodin (president of the Rockefeller Foundation) words: we are now leaving Phylantropy 3.0, as opposed to 1.0 of the beginning of the 1900 (donations) and 2.0, after WWII, characterized by the Program centered philanthropic organizations.

I bet the term coined by Judith will become part of our daily buzzwords, much like the Tim O’Reilly intuition of Web 2.0.

We are now officially in the era of “phylantrepreneurs” where the difference between a VC found and a foundation, a hot start-up and social venture become totally blurry.

Honestly, to get to that conclusion, we just had to look around, and see the faces of the participants amongst the panelists and the public: Marc Benioff, Larry Brilliant, Alan Patricof, Jean and Steve Case, William Draper, etc. etc.

And clearly, the host itself, Google and his Philanthropic arm Google.org (effectively a for-profit organization) as a clear example.

Indeed, Larry and Sergey (accompanied by Larry Brilliant) interviewed by the always subtle and jovial Jane Wales (president of the Forum) were one of the various hits of the gathering. Larry and Sergey (who once again alone decreased of a good 15 years the average age of the participants) clearly demonstrated how Philanthropy 3.0 can be a direct effect of Web 2.0. How the approach of “Don’t be evil” (who Sergey wants to change into “DO good”…) can be the common denominator between a successful company maniacally focused on doing something of direct value for the users and the so-far called “Extra-world” of Philanthropy (that in Greek means “love for mankind”).

And it was interesting to see how the newest and the oldest in the house (Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation) would move together hand in hand, sure to have come to the same conclusions, although coming from very different paths…

The conference unfolded with an impressive set of hands-on experiences and panels on how it’s come the time to apply the best lessons learned in the plain vanilla- business (its talents and resources) to have a wider look at the opportunities offered by the “social” sector and developing world.

I personally had some memorable conversations with Ali Mufuruki (founder of the African Leadership Initiative) and representatives from Avina who described me the amazing work done with the Recyclable Material Pickers (read the 2 millions of people living over mountains of garbage) all throughout Latin America (Ciudad Saludable).

The grand finale (a few hours ago) was in the hands and vision of the always appreciated Bill Clinton, who, more and more, reminds me (even physically) of Jimmy Carter (who really impressed me at Google a few months back). I’m sure Bill won’t get offended by the comparison…the two are really merging their paths…

Adieu Jean-Noël . . .

2007-04-04T16:05:00.000-07:00

According to French media, last week Jean-Noël Jeanneney stepped down as head of the BNF (Bibliothèque nationale de France).

From the pages of l’Humanite, we learn that, interestingly enough, the news coincided with the official launch of Europeana.eu, the last name for “la contribution Française a la Bibliothèque Numérique Européen”.

In addition to be a respected author and archetype of the “intellectuel français”, Jean-Noël gained a great notoriety at international level after his notorious article on le Monde, When Google Challenges Europe ["Quand Google defie l'Europe"]

Arguably, his article started off the somehow disingenuous controversy to provide a European alternative to Google Book Search, and finally, to Google search…And it did have the immediate outcome to slow the program adoption by French publishers, with the result of having French content somehow under-represented in Google Book Search.

Not only the article gave him more notoriety that he could have ever expected (as a matter of fact I always suggest to sue Google if you can: most likely you won’t win the lawsuit, but you WILL become worldwide known!), but it also gave him the basics to publish a new book, which (guess what?), his publisher added to Google Book Search : “Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe”

It’s not my intention to discuss over the highly politically charged agenda of Jean- Noël (whose Google internal nickname was “Johnny Christmas” as a result of the “not always impeccable” Google language translator – how comical is that?)

I’m more interested in seeing whether this is the start of a new era or rather the confirmation of a hard-to-sustain position for France on the topic.

Either way, all the best to Jean-Noël, for all his new endeavors… and all the best to Europeana!
We can’t wait to see when the project will develop into an integrated, multi-language, multicultural digital library. We need more of those. But so far, as the website says, it’s just a “prototype”.

La "raza" del SISCTI

2007-04-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

En las primeras semanas de febrero, me llegó una invitación a participar a la conferencia SISTCI, organizada por los estudiantes del TEC, el Tecnológico de Monterrey en México.

Acepté con gusto, también estimulado por la idea de poder conocer personalmente a Steve Wozniak, el verdadero keynote speaker de la conferencia.

Vista la audiencia (por la mayoría estudiantil), era mi intención intentar comunicar algo “inspirational” durante mi intervención. Bueno, en la hora y pico pasada en el auditórium con más de 1,000 estudiantes, no se si logré en mi objetivo. Lo que si es cierto, es que fueron ellos lo que me inspiraron. En mi elaboración “del panorama cambiante del mundo de la producción de contenido” me atreví a preguntar cuantos entre ellos tenían un blog, sin mucha expectativa. Bueno: de la 1,200 animas presentes en el auditórium, vi mas manos en alto del numero de personas que pensaba estaban prestándome atención!

No importa que a la pregunta siguiente (“¿y cuantos de ustedes tienen más de dos lectores diarios [y los familiares no cuentan]?”) la platea se pareciera a un desierto con un par de albores…

Lo que importa es que me di cuenta que, quizás por la primera vez, había un salto generacional entre yo y la audiencia… y (quizás de nuevo por la primera vez) yo no era el joven de los dos.

Así que, después de esta visión celestial, decidí resolutamente de empezar un blog mío, que sea algo más de fotos de familias.

Que sea claro: no tengo ninguna aspiración de ser entre los pocos que cuentan en más de 2 lectores (y los familiares no cuentan). Pero me parece quizás algo debido a la comunidad, tener que compartir algunas de las experiencias que veo en mi mundo profesional, gracias a la centralidad de la empresa donde trabajo y que pienso puedan ser de algún interés …

Entonces aquí empezamos… ¡Buen viaje!

Marco

PS Lo que Wikipedia dice de Wozniak no puede ser más correcto, en particular la parte sobre los juegos de prestigio y la pasión por los lásers…

The big (or "medium") Brother

2007-04-03T15:46:00.000-07:00