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Just a quick note to let you know that finally we decided to open a product blog for Stage:
All the reasons and motivations can be read here. From now on all the detailed improvements and news about Stage can be found in the new blog.
We can post here some posts about big releases or philosophical motivations behind some decisions from time to time but for all major information about Stage you should move to On stage now.
So update your bookmarks and rss feeds and thank you for be there!
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As we mentioned yesterday we’ve begun to work on a new product, with the help of Dustin Curtis. As headquarters we’ve rented a luminous (aka hot), centric apartment in Madrid. Coffee, computers and a couple of tables from IKEA later it looks like an office:
We spent the morning having a long talk about what was the product, who were the potential customers, which were the main actors involved in the use of the product and the regular flows inside the product. Dustin constructed a diagram of the main screens that will serve as a guide for later design and backend development.
We had lunch in the area and after speaking about Basque Country and show our guest what the hell are Migas a tremendous summerstorm took us by surprise so we had to return to the apartament running.
In the afternoon we had a little naming paralysis with the branding and product name, because you know what they say:
There are only two hard Things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming Things. – Phil Karlton
This is a point that we’ve neglected in some way this time: having a clear mental image of the brand of your product and of course its name is really important. Luckily several options appeared and finally we found a name we love.
So we are already prepared for the 2nd day where we will begin to work on design and backend of the product.
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We as @linkingpaths like:
- The open and free approach to public conversation.
- The simple core idea that allow complex interactions between humans.
- The constantly improving status of the platform.
Twitter respect these principles. Another example was given yesterday in the Chirp with the official presentation of @anywhere (Docs).
The integration of anywhere in this weblog took about 1 min. (we’re a bit slower than @aral XD). Try to get this very integration with facebook and you’ll find yourself cryin’.
Twitter, we love you.
PS: Yes, this beautiful hovers in the twitter names are from @anywhere.
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We launched Linking Paths. This is what we have learned in the process:
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You are the Commander-in-chief of the interaction battlefield: proud of your achivements, humble to admit your fails, honest with your opinions and ready to explain and defend your design decisions.
You have a holistic approach to your work and understand that every piece of a product is related and coordinated in many ways with the rest.
You know quality is fractal and care about those small and vital details often despised as second class interactions or “not relevant” steps by other faux designers.
You are a wonderful designer. And we need you.
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It is depressing the tremendous love for loose talk that exists in Spain. It’s nothing new, the gossip streets have always been full. But this sport reaches its real climax when mixed with self-pity, and that such national mania of speak bullshit of others.
This is why I fell kicked in the bollocks with these kinds of claims:
“Ticketea is a project so carefully and well posed, that hardly seem to be made in Spain.”
Not that I feel personally affected by the assertion, given the source and the editor, but it hurts because it’s basically bullshit:
- Http://11870.com
- Http://unvlog.com
- Http://bebanjo.com
- Http://floresfrescas.com
- Http://eyeos.org
- Http://www.lacoctelera.com
- Http://www.planetaki.com
- Http://www.tractis.com
- Http://www.partigi.com
- Http://www.nvivo.es
- Http://www.tagzania.com
- Http://www.trourist.com
- Http://www.tuenti.com
- Http://www.rtve.es
- Http://www.soitu.es
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and hundreds of other projects … besides the yours truly http://www.stagehq.com.
Of course we have to suffer renfe.es and others but infer that there is no careful and well designed applications in Spain is misleading and insulting to us dedicated to making web services. We would do well to accept what we have, for good and bad, stop complaining and above all stop talking and do much more.
Disclaimer: Many of the creators of the above services are friends whom I respect and admire.
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Ayer Jose de mi mesa cojea publicaba un articulo sobre los Premios Buber en el cual criticaba algunos aspectos de los mismos y explicaba por qué no recogió el premio que se le otorgaba en los mismos como Mejor Blog Personal Vasco.
Me gustaría puntualizar algunos de los puntos que aparecen en ese artículo. Siguiendo las enseñanzas del señor Miyagi de dar cera antes de pulir empiezo por aquellos apartados con los que estoy de acuerdo:
El sistema de votación de los premios no funciona, es complejo, genera poca participación (1.100 votaciones este año), es poco transparente y debe reformarse.
Lo anterior provoca candidatos ciertamente surrealistas en algunas o muchas categorías y en el peor de los casos premiados que ciertamente y como mínimo están fuera de lugar.
Por experiencia propia organizando unos cuantos eventos sé que los patrocinadores quieren casi siempre figurar en los diferentes carteles y fotos y poco más. En el caso de que estos sean privados obviamente poco hay que achacarles pero, como dice Jose, en el caso público hay que exigirles que de manera mínima colaboren y “aseguren” una calidad mínima en los eventos.
Ruben de factoria crossmedia acertaba de pleno con este tweet:

Es triste que la mayor parte de la gente subió al estrado por parte de las administraciones carezca, no ya de las más mínimas capacidades para hablar en público, sino de un conocimiento básico y pragmático de por donde se mueve internet por estos lares y de la más mínima implicación con este mundo más allá de acudir a saraos como este.
Por otra parte:
Recompensar el esfuerzo de las personas que se dedican de manera activa -y de manera desinteresada en muchos casos- a mejorar el panorama web en Euskadi es algo positivo, necesario y que debe implicar a las instituciones y el dinero público.
Si estamos de acuerdo en el fondo -recompensar a las mejores webs- y no en la forma -proceso de selección y/o votación- seria mejor aprovechar cualquier ocasión para cambiar ese sistema en vez de meramente ciscarse en las instituciones que lo financian.
El articulo de Jose en su blog llega precisamente a la gente que ya sabe que los premios Buber son muy mejorables. 2 min. leyendo ese articulo en público hubieran llegado a esas “corbatas” que tan impúdicamente gastaba(n/mos) dinero público.
Me parece obvio que aludir a una baja audiencia para no acudir al evento y utilizar su premio para denunciar el estado de los mismos es una más que débil justificación. Llegado el caso… ¿necesitarían todas las acciones públicas de un share mínimo para merecer la pena?.
Parafraseando a Churchill la era de las meras criticas llega a su fin. Es necesario que entremos en un periodo de acción. Si los premios Buber no funcionan y merecen una denuncia con ella soportándola y dándole validez debemos presentar una mejora, una opción y/o un cambio.
Y si este último punto no es viable dentro de las reglas de juego de los actuales organizadores de los premios, creemos unos nuevos premios, los Babar Sariak, en honor al famoso elefante, y hagámoslos mejores y más conocidos que los anteriores.
En resumen, estoy de acuerdo en que los premios son muy mejorables y la crítica me parece justificada pero cómoda e insuficiente.
Más acción y más hechos.
Por favor.
Disclaimer: Linking Paths recibió el premio al mejor blog corporativo en estos mismos premios, y a otro nivel Pro Bono Publico, la asociación de la que soy presidente, optaba a un premio en la categoría de “Mejor web de servicios a la ciudadanía” que finalmente no conseguimos.
Disclaimer 2: Ya que alguien lo comentaba en el articulo de Jose: los premios Buber no tienen ninguna compensación económica. O como mucho los tres kilos de bronce del premio, que deben valer unos 10-15 euros según mis cálculos XD.
Disclaimer 3: Dado que nosotros gastamos nuestra parte de dinero público en ese evento, me gustaría recompensar a cualquier ciudadano del Pais Vasco abriendo nuestro cubil™ para su visita e invitando a cerveza, cafe y tequila a cualquiera que lo desee.
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Apple has always been recognized by its innovative vision and capacity. Products like the iPod and the iPhone have literally transformed the computing industry. However one of the Apple’s core values is its attention to details and its obsession to polish each one of them.
In the presentation of its last product, the new iMac, Jony Ive -the person that have defined the Apple’s most successful products of the last decade- refers to this main Apple’s characteristic highlighting how important is not to be consumed by the reinvention ghost:
The core ideas, the founding ideas of the iMac are as relevant and as right now as they were with the first one. And so rather than just been consumed by reinvention this is one of those fantastic opportunities to be very clear about what it’s right and we don’t want to change. So then we put all the [...] behind improving those aspects of the product that we can make better and this is what iMac represents: it’s a collection of a very best thinking, a very best innovation.
Sincerely in these times when many people promote that everything must be reinvented and are so confused to think that this idea is related somehow to the word innovation, Ive’s words sounds like a balm to the ear.
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The workshop you are preparing
Your association anual meeting.
That trip to Finland with your friends you’ve been dreaming on.
The photographic exhibition you’ve always wanted to do.
The family meeting you’ve been waiting for months.
How are you going to make these events? How are you going to manage the registration? How are you going to collect the money? How announce your event to world simply and quickly?
The response is Stage.
Stage allow any person, company or association manage an event in a quick and simple way. For each ticket sold, Stage will get a small and fixed fee. If your event is free and you don’t get money, you don’t pay us a dime.
We focus on build a useful, clear and simple product. We don’t participate in this quiet, cold war of having more and more features than other applications just for the shake of it. We prefer to dedicate our efforts to earn time for you.
A fair and honest pricing
Forget about complicated ecuations and unfair variable fees. Each time you sell a ticket, we get 1 euro, dolar or pound. That’s all.
Remove needless complications
It’s easy to do something complex and it’s complex to get something simple. We try to make our software as useful as possible thinking on you and your processes. Simplicity is an asset in Stage.
Gon on Stage and create your first event!
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Sobre LinkedLinked es el blog de Linking Paths, la empresa aventurera e innovadora formada por Aitor Garcia, Alberto Molpeceres y Roberto Salicio. En él hablamos de nuestros productos, ideas, y de compañías que nos sirven como guía y ejemplo. Si quieres conocernos un poco mejor puedes revisar lo que hemos escrito en los archivos.
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