January 29th, 2010 | Category: Web development | Tags: front-end web development, jquery, social | Comments: 0
Last day the jQuery Team released a new strategy focused in the entire community. The team included Meetups for help to create local groups or geographic groups, but why this is important?, one of the succesful of jQuery, beside of the all cool technical features, is its community around the world. Many people contribute to the open-source project, If you look Linux, it’s the same history, so I opened a jQuery México Meetup to collaborate and support the project in our lenguage (Spanish) and from México, of course.
This morning I was excited when I see the most active groups are latinoamericans (Español (the whole latinoamerican countries), Brazil, Colombia, Chile, México), so go head and join to us.
January 3rd, 2010 | Category: Apps & Software | Tags: apple, browsers, google | Comments: 0
Google Chrome has defeated to Safari in late 2009. Throughout the 2009 Google Chrome has been demonstrated excellence in the browser market, but it is incredible that in December 2009 was able to defeat Safari. Why is it difficult to beat Safari?. Safari like Internet Explorer are browsers that come by the default in the own Operating System, for example if you install Windows, you’ll get Internet Explorer, if you install Mac OSX, you’ll get Safari. How a browser like Chrome can beat Safari in a year?. Chrome proved to be light, fast and incorporated extensions as the pioneer Firefox, but not only that, but has earned the confidence of users via the Internet giant: Google and the recently official launch of Google Chrome for MAC OS X, which was one of the most expected by Mac users.
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January 1st, 2010 | Category: Social media | Tags: semantic web, social network, ubiquitous computing | Comments: 1
A few days ago I went to watch Avatar, a movie written and directed by James Cameron, which I regard as one of my favorite filmmakers (Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens, Piraña).
I’m not going to review the movie, far from it, but I found very interesting how the Pandora Villagers could extract and share information from their deceased ancestors and alive people. It is interesting for one reason, the strong relationship with the current social networks and the possible future ones. The Pandora Villagers used the own nature as a database, which it was open, interoperable and linked, that means, they could used it in any physical media. Villagers could access to the information in any time and way.
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December 4th, 2009 | Category: Social media | Tags: business model, social network | Comments: 0
Background
It is difficult say that Web 2.0 became the Web in social, because since the Web was born people could collaborate and communicate online, but one of the biggest successes with the Web 2.0 is simple: the easy way to do it!. Almost of the principal services of this generation are easy and free; for example, people can create a personal page with social networking sites or write online with blogs without knowledge of web programming or pay.
Status
Now we see the hit of social networkings sites like Facebook with 350 millions of users, if Facebook were a country, it would be the 4th largest in the world, amazing!, don’t you think?. And of course we’ve another good example of success but with a different type of communication, I’m talking about microblogging platforms like Twitter, that we respond a simple question: what do you doing?, and that simple question was adopted and also forgot it in the pass of the years. The different of social networks like Facebook and Twitter is in the way of people communicate (Facebook = Synchronous, Twitter = Asynchronous). The benefits of being a part of this sites are a lot, and of course you know them, but my favorites are the community, the social tools and the conversations, everything in real-time.
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November 26th, 2009 | Category: Personal | Tags: computing, students, talks | Comments: 2
I was invited by the teacher Mayra López from elementary school Juan Oseguera Velazquez T.M. (Colima, México) for a little talk and Interview by K-12 students. I accepted her invitation for good reasons, first one I wanted to know what the kids at age of 11-13 years old know about computers and technology?, what do they do with them? and what do they want to do with them?. Remember in México our economy is not the same as countries like USA, Canada and others more; we live in a major deficit in technology for economic and cultural problems. Education is one of the sectors that the Government of Mexico has implemented various supports to encourage the process of teaching-learning to student through technology, programs like the Enciclomedia, the technology has been brought to the classroom for the first contact with elementary students. This tool has been one of the most important for this sector, but in turn has had many problems in issues of updating and maintenance of equipment, so, I really wanted to know if elementary students learn about and through the technology . It should be noted that most children in public schools in Mexico are poor, so mostly of them just have money to buy their breakfast or lunch, so it is inferred that many do not have a computer at home.
The topic of my talk was very general, titled “Introduction to Computers”, in my presentation, I included: What are the computers?, What does a computer?, What are the types of computers?, Why are computers useful?, etc.. I tried to keep the student´s attention through a very enjoyable and participatory talk, I did’t do to much, they really were interest in know about computers. In my talk I discovered interesting things with some questions to them. My questions were:
- How many of you have used a computer?
- The answer was: ALL.
- How many of you have a computer at home?
- The answer was: 2 of 33 students.
- How many of you are going to cyber coffe to use the computer?
- The answer was: 27 of 33 students.
- Have you ever used a computer at your school?
- The answer was: None.
- Why not have used it at school?
- The answer was: Not for us, its only for teachers.
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November 23rd, 2009 | Category: Personal | Comments: 0
This post is just for introduced myself and tell you what do you going to find (about me & research areas and interests) on my personal website.
My native lenguage is Spanish (I’m proud to be a Mexican Engineer), but I decided to write in English for practice it and get within the greater community of professionals who are looking information in English. Maybe at the beginning of my posts I will mess a little bit but I hope soon mastered the language.
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