Google Developer Day 2007 has ended! The Youtube Videos will be uploaded by tomorrow but anyway I have to make an exciting announcement (well, at least for me it's exciting ;-): ElPais.com has written an article about the Developer Day and chose MY picture to accompany the article (see picture in the post before this one).

Still live from the Developer Day in Madrid: It's not over yet but we are heading into the final phase. Right now we are watching a live videoconference from Mountain View and I guess everyone is hoping that at least one of the founders will show up. Ok ehm, we just got the update that it won't come that far. That's real live blogging ;-)

However, there will be a cocktail now and a DJ, so this might be fun too!

Here are also some posts about the event:

- Dirson (spanish)

- Enguillem! (catalan)

- nvivo (spanish)

Hey there, I am blogging live from the Google Developers Day in Madrid. This is an event for the developer community, held today at 10 different locations in the world for a total of about 5,000 programers ;-)

Check out the worldwide site includign a real cool mash-up with live photos and blog posts.

Also, have a look at our Spanish blog, where we will publish posts about the sessions later on. All sessions also will be taped and uploaded to Youtube, I don't have the link yet but I will add it as soon as I have.

Recently, I had the honour to take part in one of the most ambitious movie projects in Spain, if not in Europe. Please have a look at the trailer, my interview and, of course, the movie!

The trailer:



My interview

THE MOVIE

Just read an interesting blog post about a Google critic -> click!

I agree very much w¡th the author of the post. A lot of people criticize Google, but too many have NO IDEA what they are talking about. Often, they are not to blame entirely because of limited availability of information, but sometimes, criticism is just purely "market-leader bashing" and completely unjustified.

A agree that one should keep an eye on any powerful company, but in my point of view Google has kicked off several revolutions that are nothing else than positive and I think that there are a lot more companies out there that are more worrying than Google is.

Lazy. I am even too lazy to lie in bed. I don't know if I explain myself but it's a pretty awful state of mind. I can not even enjoy doing nothing...

Last week it's been one year that I am working for Google and I've been planning to write a post about it. Reflections about the time there, about my job, about what I've learned,etc. So, if that wakes your interest, please be patient, but I fear that today I am too lazy to write any further.

Today it was a spledid day in Madrid and Retiro Park was full with people, life and colours. Find some impressions in my Picasa Web Album and watch the two videos below.

Being a user of the internet for about 14 years now, I would consider myself as an advanced user of this medium. However, I just tried to acquire a train ticket on the Trenitalia website and it took me about half an hour to get it done.

Trenitalia always had an awful site, that I knew, but as I went there today and saw the new, modern design I hoped that functionality had improved, too. Well, let's put it like that: I was wrong. I probably would even find it hard to explain how you can finally buy ticket over this site and I guess that a lot of more basic users or users with less need to buy one would fail in the process.

This experience is just part of something that I notice more and more recently. Registration or sign-up processes for products or services are often irrationally difficult and complicated. Is it still too early for good navigation, simple sign up, click and buy? I mean, it's a paradox, because making something easier should be simple, right?

I know that it is not as simple as it sounds because it happens to me at work as well; putting something as easy as possible or facilitating a fluid navigational flow is sometimes quite tricky. Still, some e-commerce site or service providers would do well to have a look at Amazon or ITunes and adopt some of their principles. Google Checkout also could help them a lot, I guess.