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Jorge Escobar

Facebook Groups is the Needed Step Towards Social Curation

October 10, 2010
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One of the most commented news around the blogosphere this week was the launch of the new Facebook Groups, a reboot of the original groups product with a number of new features, some of which have been criticized. I have been playing with the product for a few days and I have to say this is [...]

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With Ecuador’s #30S Crisis, Twitter Shows it’s a Global Communications Platform

October 1, 2010
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Yesterday Ecuadorians woke up seeing on their television the images of what quickly became a very dangerous situation for its democracy. A large segment of the national police was going on a strike, after President Correa’s government had proposed a law that would strip them of a multitude of promotions, bonuses and retirement benefits. Some [...]

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Corporate Blogs — Now That’s an Oxymoron

September 29, 2010

Yesterday a lot of us heard the sonic boom coming out from Techcrunch’s Disrupt Conference. The rumors were true: AOL was out on the West Coast on a shopping spree. Not only did they grab an online services company, they bought one of the most influential technology sites in the planet. One of the deals [...]

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FTP Upgrading of WordPress on AWS Instances

July 4, 2010

For months I was annoyed at the inability of my WordPress installation to automatically upgrade both plugins as well as the core installation. Every time I had to do a core upgrade of WordPress, I would manually download the zip file, unpack, copy the wp-contents and wp-config files and then take care of any outdated [...]

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The Void Left by FriendFeed

April 3, 2010
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There is a natural cycle in Social Media applications, where there’s an initial excitement (the romantic phase), a leveling of activity (the wedding phase) and hopefully the “till death do us part” phase, where the application becomes part of our lives. But most often than not, there’s a divorce phase. The application just doesn’t measure [...]

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Five Tips to Thrive on Google Buzz

February 11, 2010

With Google Buzz, users have found their inboxes converted instantaneously into a social hub. Google’s bold move has turned the web into a whirlwind of blog posts appraising or criticizing the service. I will leave that part out of this post, as I feel it’s not really fair to evaluate a service that has two [...]

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Google’s Whitespace Bid is Where Nexus is Going

January 6, 2010

Yesterday I saw the realtime video feed (thanks to @scobleizer) of the unveiling of Google’s new phone, the Nexus One. The phone looks great, with some really cool features and confirming that Google is really lining all its guns towards the mobile space. But the announcement wasn’t revolutionary in any level. It’s a great new [...]

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FriendFeed’s Lifecycle: A Story of the Modern Startup

December 9, 2009

Today I noticed Compete.com had come out with November stats. My blog had a spectacular month (and if you read it, you know why), but my intentions were other: to see how FriendFeed fared in a key month after its Facebook announcement has died down.

The graph doesn’t look good for FriendFeed, which has lost an additional 20% of its audience.

The question we, as FriendFeed fanatics ask ourselves is why? Why is a product that is so unique been left for dead all of a sudden.

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Why I Hate Traffic Spikes

November 30, 2009

There is a rush when you see a post that gets a lot of attention. I remember Hutch Carpenter experiencing something similar when he had his “Cisco Fatty” post.

But after the moment passes and you look back, there’s a bunch of negative things that slowly emerge from the experience. I will share with you some of the ones I have thought of.

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Chrome OS: Is It Really An Operating System?

November 19, 2009

As I read report after report on Google’s Chrome OS, I have to say I feel a little let down. But most importantly, I’m a little hesitant to call it a real Operating System.

According to the official post:

[Google Chrome OS is] an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.

Don’t we all spend most of our time nowadays on the web? What is not to love?

The problem is the rest of the time when we are not on the web.

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