Rafa, eres un campeón
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Diary on June 8th, 2010
El año pasado vimos como Rafa se desinflaba, en parte por las lesiones, pero también en parte por no poder canalizar esa concentración que él tanto cuida. Yo, como muchos de las personas que le seguimos estabamos tristes en ver como se caía de la cima, y se recluía para poder recuperarse.
Y es que rafa es más que un tenista, es un conjunto de cosas, que nos hacen a muchos vibrar con él. Me acuerdo cuando se quejaba de que la gente veía normal que ganara todos los partidos, porque decía que para él era un esfuerzo tremendo cada partido. Y es que era así, nos habíamos acostumbrado a que ganara siempre, verle el #1. Me acuerdo seguir cada pequeña noticia que se daba de como iba en su recuperación. Tampoco me perdí el reportaje desde su casa en aquella entrevista en TVE1 sobre como se estaba entrenando.
Y poco a poco los últimos meses hemos visto como ha ido ganando terreno, mejorando, ganando unos partidos y perdiendo otros. En mi mente estaba la pregunta: “¿Ganará este año Rolland Garros?” Y resulta que al final lo ha ganado todo en tierra. Rafa, mis más sentida felicitación, porque has conseguido recuperarte, remontar de una situación muy dificil.
Muchas gracias por hacernos disfrutar y vibrar tanto contigo. Y gracias por poder escuchar el himno español de nuevo, es algo agradable con los tiempos que corren. Ahora que te veo contento, estoy yo también contento.
¡Vamos, Rafa!
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Startup School Classes: Project Management, Presentations and Present DEMO
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Startups on June 6th, 2010
This week I enrolled in three interesting classes at Startup School. First one, with Zulfigar Deo about MBA for startups and project management with a view of different project management techniques like Agile, etc… Second one by Supercool School CEO Steli about how to demo your product. And last one about mistakes made in presentations by Nathan Gold. They all promise to be interesting and fun, learning new things, remembering about these topics and most important interacting with presenters and audience.
Update June 19: Steli is CEO of Supercool School and not Startup School
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Impressed with Zoho, Business Applications On Demand
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Technology on May 15th, 2010
I started to use GoogleApps in the last work project, where everybody is using gmail for corporate mailing as well as google apps, etc… So I dig deeper into google apps to host by domain there and dump the Exchange mail hosting solution I have now. It ended up that instead of paying 10€ a month for exchange+blakberry bed would pay like 4€ a month with GoogleApps. But since this crisis made me very cautious about spending money, I said to myself to search deeper in the net.
Zoho Mail
I reached Zoho, where I could host my own domain mailing at 0€, having IMAP and POP, therefore being able to sync with my iPod, Blackberry, from any browser, etc… Sounded like a great deal. I have 1GB for first 3 users, which is a great proposition for start-ups. Their spam filter is way cool. Believe me I have tons of spam every hour, the zoho spam folder as I am writing has 8,000 messages and that in a few days only. It catches spam pretty well, at least the kind of spam I get. And finally I can send my personal email from Yahoo to the same account with label personal so have all email organized in same place. I get 25GB paying small fee like 3€ when my mail grows which will not happend soon, so I am OK.
Zoho Apps
Now this is the one that rocks. I get Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Forums, Link Management, Contacts, Notebook (MS OnNote style), Wiki, Project Management, Meeting Software, CRM (Like SalesForce), Share App, Invoice App, SpreadSheet (GoogleApps compatible), Planner, Writer, Chat, Marketplace, People (Human Resource Soft), Recruiting Software, Slide Soft, Reporting Software, Remote Desktop, Document Online Disk (1GB) and Creator (Web site creator) totally free. This is really awesome.
Their application are not crappy apps, they are nice applications, usefull for everyday use. And the number increases like monitoring soft, polls, etc… So I say: “This company delivers”. This is the reason why I moved to Zoho and plan to be there. When need more proyect management will pay very low on-demand fees, the same for the other services. So seems to be much better for me that GoogleApps. And as I said, they have compatibility with GoogleApps and their calendar application so no problem with that.
I set up a public calendar that will publish into this blog with the online events I go and public stuff I go, etc…
Also, besides all this I can choose mail account name and not be jalegre8726@gmail.com, which is not very compeling to me.
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Space Monkey
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Diary on April 30th, 2010
Nice ad by WMF. What a journey!!!
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