Sometimes you have to experience something to really learn a lesson. I heard before about the Hershey’s Kiss experiment and the vast difference between dirt cheap and free, but I had to see it with my own eyes. Before Dindy was free it cost 0.80 USD and I had around one download per day for [...]
The December release. Wonderful. (This post contains an embedded player. If you’re using an RSS reader you might not be able to see it)
This is an old school web 1.0 idea I had over the weekend. It’s very simple: let’s say you want to leave a message for someone, anonymously or not. You go into the website, put in the person’s email address and the message. The person doesn’t receive any notification about this, and can only see [...]
I’ve been a fan of The Mars Volta for quite some time now. While waiting for their upcoming (6th studio) album, I listen to one of Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta’s dictator) albums. Rodriguez Lopez has been releasing many (free to listen) albums lately, that are very different in style and sound. The latest [...]
After over a year of selling Dindy, without much success, I finally made it free. In that year 366 people downloaded Dindy, 105 (28%) kept it on their device, 74 cancelled their order (to get the refund) and 187 paid for it and later on uninstalled it without getting their money back. Dindy’s rating in [...]
I’ve decided to leave IBM. After 2 years in Diligent Technologies and over 2.5 years as an IBMer following Diligent’s acquisition, and considering I wasn’t pursuing an IBM career that will last many years to come, it was definitely time for me to go. I’ll be an IBMer until January 31st, 2011. In Diligent-IBM I [...]
Here are the pictures and videos from my trip to Tucson, AZ and NYC, NY:
I’ve been in NYC for a couple of days now but didn’t have time to update. I’m basically hanging out with two good friends. Before I left Tucson, a colleague of ours took me and my boss bicycle riding in the desert among the cacti, which I really enjoyed. I also fell off my bicycle [...]
I arrived to Tucson, Arizona today after over 16 hours of flight (with an additional few hours of waiting, trains, trams and taxis.) My hotel “room” is bigger than my apartment. I went straight to the nearby Target store to get my usual cereal and yogurt. Then, at around 4pm and after eating, I was [...]
(This is a delayed post for October 30) Before we left Vals on the 4-hour drive back to the Geneva area, we walked around the streets of Vals, with its typical old Swiss houses, one more time. On the way to Geneva we stopped in Berne, a city with an amazingly beautiful and well-preserved old [...]