Oct 03 2008
Due to my participation in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program as a mentor (well, more like co-mentos along with Chuck Severance) in the excellent work of Jordi Piguillem developing an IMS LTI 2.0 Consumer for Moodle, the Google guys have invited me to the GSOC Mentor Summit 2008 t the Google HQ. Thus, [...]
Jun 11 2008
When I travel, the people I know frequently ask me: “As an entrepreneur which pros did you have to create an star-up in Barcelona?” and I have always the same answer: “It’s 30 minutes away from my home!!!”
So my testimonial is not relevant for that reason, but I know a lot of guys that have [...]
Jun 11 2008
Marcos owes us an entry here. This morning he asked me for a new password ( can you believe it!!!) and the idea came up: Let’s create a Ning Network for Google at Barcelona… And i said Let’s mak it so. And here I engaged…
Join us!
Ludo
Jun 03 2008
Looks like this idea is spreading. Hey, nothing spectacular to show inan eyeball but definitivelly some blogs are talking about this iniciative. I just want to cite them to thank the courtesy.
Wolffan, Jorge Fernandez, No-va-sexo (see picture above), and last but not least the Blog and Podcast Mossegalapoma.cat (where I have a litle involvenment [...]
May 22 2008
Hey in Barcelona we want everyone to come here. We want a Google lab here, we already have a Yahoo Lab and some guys also want MySpace to come. They have this Blog: http://www.barcelonawantsmyspace.org/ doing something like what we want to do here. Looks like some guys with foolish ideas and some time to carry [...]
May 13 2008
I’m going to add my opinion to this initiative, but first of all I would like to introduce I little bit my situation and the computer science labour market at Spain.
Few years ago I got my Diploma in Computer Software at FIB – UPC and now I about to get a Degree in Informatics Engineering. [...]
May 07 2008
Some may say, OK Ludo, the idea is ok. But why Barcelona would benefit from having a few hundreds of Google engineers working in a building. Thinking about impact would not be better to have a new automobile factory around ? SEAT-VolskWagen or Nissan or GM that’s big boy! Lots of goods [...]
May 03 2008
The link is the tool that the PageRank algorithm uses to guess meaning in the crazyness of the web. The link is what helped to build Google as is now. Linking and linking back is like joining hands and make meaning of something, together. One of the symbols of Barcelona and Catalonia is the way [...]
Apr 29 2008
Eva in an enlightened comment just gave some reasons that a knowledge based company such as Google should consider:
“A Barcelona office may be dangerous in the sense that the weather calls for an outdoor life year round (and everything that this implies…). But this can also be a huge benefit. Barcelona offers a tremendous [...]
Apr 29 2008
Last year I received an email from Google in my gmail account, wich I dont usually read cause I use it as a backup tool. That email was from the recruitment guys who wanted to offer me a post as developer at Google. Looks like some ex-student working for them recommended me and after [...]