http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn Why not ? Putting an idea into the universe. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/06/11/the-talent-loves-barcelona/ 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 http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/06/11/new-ning-group-google-at-barcelona/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/06/03/more-blogs-wandering-about-google-at-barcelona/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/05/22/barcelona-wants-also-myspace/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/05/13/whats-up-with-our-future/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/05/07/why-would-barcelona-want-to-be-one-of-googles-homes/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/05/03/about-linking-and-joining-hands/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/04/29/lifestyle-and-workstyle/ 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 ... http://blogs.dfwikilabs.org/google_at_bcn/2008/04/29/just-putting-an-idea-in-the-universe/