We sell what we smoke and smoke (or as easily colonize Spain)

A few months ago came out with a great deployment of Cuilo, the search was intended to be an alternative to Google and that was held in Web 2.0 circles, especially in USA.

I remember when I saw him, I was lazy to comment, and I wrote a post some thug "A few laughs with Cuilo" (is that already at that time was that there was no where to get it). The truth is that today trying to compete with Google is something ridiculous, first because your technology is always going to be worse, because you will not have half or resources, nor experience any data that Google has acquired .

Cuilo (which curiously goes by second Google search "CUIL") claiming that the search had gone some Google engineers, with this solution and its background black, defended the possibility of alternative and niche in the market. I am sure that after the huge buzz created a lot of people used it a while. But obviously, given the time and removes reasons:

I write all this before they FailBeta in a few months to talk Cuilo (all will) not for this project in itself, but what is curious to see an effect of viral world. The graph of this web traffic, we see that the news was published on TechCrunch in a surprisingly enthusiastic, and the following 3-4 days is copied and commented on blogs worldwide.

TechCrunch does not just end users in Spain, perhaps only to heavy users and influence (which, incidentally, there are times that those who read him out without stopping to analyze and process information in order to have own conclusions), which makes it have a prescription with some power of hundreds of Spanish-language bloggers, who are prescribers with local users. It's a huge capillarity gives tremendous power to penetrate world where there are turning to explain that something is going to be interesting. In the medium term, if the product was a bluff, the bubble bursts.

That buzz global (unfortunately impossible to play in Spain or Latin America would be a great shame because good projects to boost local estallarían not like this) makes me think we are a country that readily colonize. What comes from the USA with a good marketing behind not swallow up the transom, or generally when a user or a prescriber or to a level where investors do local players in that sector. So we will, we are the country with the highest penetration in the world of Google, 96%, the country where Coca Cola has a greater market share of soft drinks in the world ... when someone comes here from outside "dazzles" Nobody supports andalusia local player in that market, does not receive any support and usually goes away by itself, and it is true that it is difficult to compete but the fact remains that sometimes where Latino entrepreneurs are very constant and we pay with some projects to ease External largest.

I think we have not understood a part of the game, if the ICT sector work we need to take market share, more or less, domestic products, which are investments that are betting and that all interests that go well. Many times I detect a certain bitterness at the success of projects Made in Spain, and a bias, often without much reflection, to the last project we try to bluff-meter, usually from the USA ... let him in by the ears.

I am not talking about a certain nacionalismo.com or defend the things local so excessive, but if a certain selfish protectionism, the Internet is a global market, in which all those working in ICT and we are concerned that the projects do not amount to 100% overall, because Spain is very difficult to create brands and projects worldwide with our fabric technology and investments that are handled here. We need some space for the local market.

A brilliant project in Spain will receive an investment of 100,000 Euros or 200,000 of a business angel in Europe or USA, but not so shiny you could receive 3 to 4 million stroke and without much trouble to expand internationally. Thus, it is difficult to compete when these people landed in Spain ... complicated, but with support and ingenuity still can! But even more difficult if we are open by default to embrace what comes out as a validated model and make the case justito and sometimes underestimate the local project.

That's why I get so angry when the 4-5 Spanish companies that if they can launch global brands and industry benchmark, they are still not aware of what's happening.

Tags: bubble, CUIL, smoke, local projects, Tics

Inocenteeeee!

Happy Day of the Innocents 2008!

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Tags: innocent, unemployment, ZP

The recipe against crisis

A few days ago my breakfast with the good side of Frédéric Terrier, Director General of Yes.fm in Dosier Business. " The interview is one of those who do not leave indifferent, first as the original owner who has made me thank you very much "Chill Out Music can make us forget a little about the crisis."

The interview is very original because it is a perfect profile Frédéric, who does not like to leave too much in the media and prefers to remain generally in the background. Discuss things sure many of you know us as odd.

I know since 2001, is French and has been for 16 years in Spain, speaks perfect Spanish and appears not miss his home country "I'm staying with Spain, if you see people here and even sometimes goes to work happy" "Here you can enjoy more leisure, work, or family. We have a daughter born in Spain and we will stay. " Is one of those people you connect from the minute an architect as well and that for over a year and a half I embark on the project Yes.fm.

Today as I write these lines is Christmas, December 25 fun fun fun A day I usually take some calm and hardly even an email reply. I did not want to stop writing these lines, we released tomorrow, December 26, because the character and the person in question are worth. I recommend reading the interview you can download from here.

Today at lunch with Frédéric Moraleja for a change in Aspen, I have lost count of the number of times we have eaten there last year, we may expect the de-almost-always a great "black rice with squid, as in Altea "and input a little jamón Ibérico Bread Tumaco. Big Aspen, which also helps us to forget the crisis!. If my calculations do not fail, laugh or just pull me by the ears have dedicated lines.

To give one sticks to the interview the dreadful "sculpture" blue background of the photo in the courtyard of the building where is located Yes.fm. Every time you go through the door of the building Yes.fm mentally dedicate a few seconds to half smile, "fuck, what horror, who will put this pegote here?"

Tags: clip, Press release, Frederic Terrier, yes fm

Merry Christmas to all

... Who enjoy the festivities of the Group team Publispain, Leisure Networks and Yes.fm

(click on Play)

Tags: christmas greetings, happy christmas

Difficult choice (creative advertising)

30 seconds of your time to see a funny ad, very simple, yet creative and well executed (and some green) starring Jennifer Aniston.

(Note the final detail of the product shelf full of competitors from Heineken, and the obvious players)

Tags: advertisement, creativity, Heineken, viral

Bendito failure

We are in a society where the failure is very negative, possibly too much, and I personally believe that the failure relativise entrepreneur.

In my experience the failure (in a project, a company in a position ...) need not necessarily be negative, it is more often as necessary as positive.

The youngest entrepreneurs in Spain just before the failure to take 2 different routes, some still try it, others look for a job and forget about the romantic idea of undertaking.

I think that neither of these 2 options is bad, the key is knowing which is best suited to your life time, your position and your profile. Do not be a good entrepreneur is not bad, there are people who have an operational profile to work in a large corporation, and to lead teams carrying out positions, and that is very positive. There are people who have no wood to be employed and to undertake at all costs. Both cases are good, the key is that you know, you see your options and choose your path, and that if, once elected to try to be good, and if possible the best in yours.

In an environment of entrepreneurship, often has led to failure in people who have brilliant careers and jobs, not had this profile, the timber enterprise, and in view of its success to third parties have sometimes been forced to abandon an undertaking career success and going to failure. The most recent case I saw a director of a newspaper, which is prestigious journalist was over controlling and managing a huge corporation to which he belonged, but not included. Just wanted to write back and let those responsibilities, but he felt morally bound by thanking those who nominated him and the "failure" to return to their natural site.

The failure does not sell in Spain, the losers are socially maligned, and this clashes with other conceptions of failure in other cultures. In USA for example, when a young entrepreneur needs capital, presenting a pair of previous failures is a positive sign. Of course nobody wants to live in failure, but the experience and failure as a positive turning point. A good friend and better person Business Angel in Miami, which invests in U.S. and Latin America up to 7 digits, I commented a few days ago by telephone and the failure has become a requirement in times of economic difficulty as acuales. "Will I leave my money in your hands?. Have you had any numbers to manage time well?. Have you ever swum against you before? "I strongly agree with that thought. I always stay calmer if the entrepreneur and I like that I had previously failed in any initiative, but has lived this experience and learned from it, in a way that failure is the pillar upon which tries to build a success. I have no doubt that if you lived past and difficulties, if you do not get caught again new, you know where you screwed up again and you're the most prepared for the challenge that people have not experienced a previous failure.

Something that is implicit in the U.S. in the topic of Self-Made Man, the man himself. In the Anglo-Saxon culture failure is not rewarded, but is tolerated as part of the system, and that failure is not sentenced to life imprisonment.

Other cultures, like Japan for example, not only does not understand the success without failure, but also in some ways is not well seen, it is up to some extent "a stroke of luck" get straight to succeed without a previous failure . It is morally necessary to mark a turning point.

Apart from cultural differences, I always try to introduce and to encourage a second and third time to pursue your dream, start a business and achieve your goals, and now more than ever because we live in a special moment, that the new technologies as a vehicle provide this figure of the entrepreneur, which is much more complicated in other sectors such as industry, business and so traditional. But I think we also need to know when to stop. If you have been taking years and reaping failures, you must also think that "maybe it is not yours," and that's not derogatory, it is important to know, find the gap that exists in the insurance company for you, and develop within it the extent of your ability, but always with ambition and effort.

The problem of failure is when you do not agree, do not recognize internally and not pass the line-hard-sometimes necessary to learn from him. Fail to undertake and experience is the real failure is not daring to try to get where once dreamed I would get.

Mario Dehter, the only person who has seen this image before running (and I think this is the first time I've shown before placing an online) and not much time ago wrote a post about the failure, I quite rightly emphasizes that "the Failure is part of the act of living with wonderful success. "

Usually when talking about ourselves we tend to minimize and somehow justify our failures in a job or a business in our curriculum. Many people in the relativised a quick, last on tiptoe, or mentioned at summarizing his career with an inconsequential sentence or the typical "it was not time, the circumstances were not favorable, we had bad luck" ... the reality is me, if I look back, I learned more from my failures than my successes-few-and I believe that in bad times is when I built my profile as a businessman and entrepreneur, and ultimately and most importantly, as person.

Tags: launch, Business, failure, leadership, fear of failure

Top 10 post of the year

Sorry to leave, because obviously I am not anybody to choose the best post of the year, but if I feel like in my first December as a blogger, post 10 can choose the Internet / technology / seo / publicity that I have drawn attention and made me think Espero que os gusten

(organized without any predetermined order, as I have come to mind and I think most of them are timeless and can be read at any time).

Internet business models (Loogic)

Equity loans (Carlos Blanco)

Social and viral marketing campaigns (Ismael El-Qudsi)

Twitter is for the general public (Error 500)

Why not outsource to investors? (Alicia in the country of investment)

Tips to facilitate contact with an investor (EURECA)

Look no investment, create your own team of investors (Francisco Carrero)

A stroll through the forums of investors (in the Network Node)

The reasons why I do not want your money (Jaime Estevez)

SEO Analysis of Ciao (Vseo)

Of course there will be many post that may be on this list and did not know or forgot

If you share in the comments that you add would be perfect for all! (thanks!)

Tags: Alice in the country of investment, Carlos Blanco, error500, Francisco Carrero, Loogic, vseo

The links in 10 weeks (December 21)

If you are a legal and shares (for Tecnorantes)

Idealist can be quiet (by Sergio Escoto)

Recommendations in times of crisis (by Carlos Blanco)

Towards a new model of media relations (by Roberto Carreras)

Tips for improving visibility in professional social networking (for Entrepreneurs News)

Business Week wants to talk (by Lola como mola)

What is the rate of Rebound? (By Ismael El-Qudsi)

Hearing on the niches and on the Internet (by Isabel Vazquez)

Showing no-to-do, 7 habits that you should leave now (by Habitos Vitales)

KETEK and Twitter, learning how not to make an elephant in a china shop (for Territorio Creativo)

Tags: Carlos Blanco, life habits, Isabel Vasquez, Ismael El-Qudsi, 10 links in the week, Links of the week, the links of the week, news entrepreneurs roberto career, Sergio Escoto, Tecnorantes Territorio Creativo

We're going to cover!

It has all the paint that this is the year. ! We play the big Christmas!

If ONLAE no cheating this year we have to play the Lottery Christmas, so I want to share the number of Yes.fm with you all.

This tenth rioja play all those pasais on this blog. If you participate, leave a comment in this post until the day of the draw, before the lottery begins, and if you touch one of the top prizes, we divided the tenth among all participants in this post.

The number was chosen Oscar Mendez, Director of Communications Yes. I hope you have good hand.!

(Joe, if you touch not repayment to see how sending cents!)

Tags: bargain, big Christmas lottery, lottery Christmas, we will cover, participate ricoooooooooo, yes

Do not touch the code jodio!

Always gave me panic touching certain things of the portals when they operate in a stable.

Over the past 45 days we have had a "fun" time of tension by touching the programming of a portal flash games that had online since 2004. This 25.000-30.000 portal receives about 2006 unique visits a day from a stable. Ie the graph of these figures ever downward and prints 6,000,000 page views a month.

The stability of the web traffic can be seen in this graph Analitycs of the first 10 months of the year

In the graph you can see the stability of the site, which are repeated cyclically serrated teeth of the weekend, except during the summer months that the weekend away concept in entertainment websites.

Consider the case today because I think it is particularly graphic in order to see two things, because many times the old services that work, best not to experiment too much with them, and because Google sends a radical.

It comes up as 1 month and a half in one of those "bright ideas" that sometimes I have decided to update the site a bit more towards a 2.0, and with George, our programmer, James, our Chief Technical and Diego, Entertainment coordinator, I coñazo on a couple of days to make some changes.

In 10 days we have refined the concept and changed the code, without changing the urls indexed or structure of the site we have integrated a blog into an old CMS that is based on WordPress launch news not published in WordPress, but are painted in CMS in the old home, giving a greater sense of the web update.

It is pretty, I feel flex and we are left with a feeling of having washed his face to the web, have made some SEO changes to help us wants to work his way up a little rank, and details of old have improved usability, so quiet ...

It seems that Google did not take the change as well, in 1 week and sent us to the abyss of unexplainable for me and my team. Literally eliminated 90% of site index and left only the new URLs. Even if you look at the site did not find the reason and swear in 45 days they have spent many hours thinking we had done wrong without finding it. The result? A fall of 90% of URLs indexed in Google, and a fall of 90% of site traffic. The same graph until a few days earlier DA MIEDO:

The collapse in numbers of unique users 25.000-30.000 andalusia andalusia 3.500-3.800 day to day. A domain is going to print 6,000,000 page views per month to about 450,000 per month of overnight. The worst is still not know exactly why and face fool you can be.

That also means 2 things, first of Yahoo! Or Live do not exist. The second that we are not loyal to the brand or 10% of users.

After a long turn, our program finds that a conflict could be generated from WordPress CMS and the old who, although not perceptible to the user and to test our spiders and not find anything like that described, or have a problem of usability, it could be affecting the search engine, which decided to remove the index 6000 urls indexed well and good positions in less than 7 days, leaving a token 230.

Conclusion on Monday Jorge makes some changes, particularly in the htacess and our relationship with CMS WordPress, Jaume and I do not have the slightest confidence that we resolve the issue in that way because we still do not see the problem ... but voila ... Google starts eating again urls (for 1800 will be indexed and even a lot) and the traffic starts to turn slowly. I hope that we leave in a month where we were ... We have already started climbing up towards the back.

And many times, on things that work, the "seen but not touched" is totally fustifica, and be careful with things that are foolish not to take risks. Alejandro

Tags: analitycs, Google, games, SEO, usability

New types of advertising: Pinball prize

Soon we begin to launch an online advertising campaign for Yes.fm in part and we want to use unconventional formats like Advergaming.

I teach at a preview that you think a flash game based on a pinball Yes.fm very cool in which scores are recorded and the 3 best of the week get a free weekly subscription to Yes.fm, amid the line codes you can get credit for 1 day or 1 hour.

To do this you have to go through the top ring of the game, which says ABONATE "5 times for payment of 1 hour, 10 times for 1 day. I acknowledge that I have only achieved 1 hour and half viciao'm here playing.

Try it and see what you think! You'll score my test is tomorrow ... I'm in this one package.

(NOTE: You can take a while to load depending on your connection, it is 1 MB, if you read from the feed and want to play you should go here)

Tags: Advergaming, Campaigns, creativity, games, advertising, Yes.fm

Yes.fm in Time magazine and in 5 days

Every day the media are focusing more on the draft Yes.fm, which we thank all those who formed the team Yes.

These last 3 days we have had a presence in the Time Magazine and Journal 5 days with interviews with Kiko Fuentes and Christophe Cassand.

You can see here the pdf of time to 5 days.

Soon start a campaign unconventional online, where we hope to bring more of Yes to all users, in our communication strategy, which now begin to devote more resources.

Tags: Christophe Cassand five days, Kiko Fuentes, time, yes fm

The links in 10 weeks (December 14)

Intellectual wisdom and rhetoric (by Antonio Fumero)

Newspapers on-line (no) link (for Francois Derbaix)

Exhaustion of rights and resell MP3 (by Andy Ramos)

Subsidizing the cause or the consequence (by Gaston Bercun)

To make ends meet, draft community Carrefour (by Error 500)

What should be the budget in Social Media? (For Territorio Creativo)

RConversation the owl to a paste - channels (for Fernando Plaza)

Define your values and improve your productivity (by Hábitos Vitales)

Crisis and Infrastructure: Highways to nowhere? (For Nomad Blogs)

Jesus Alonso, Thoughts in disarray (by Carlos Blanco)

And this week's tip gives me back a lot of joy:

My "stage" of 13 days in the Intensive Care Unit (by Jesús Alonso Gallo)

Tags: andy ramos, antonio Fumero, Blogs, Carlos Blanco, Error 500, fernando plaza, gaston bercun, life habits, jesus alonso, links Territorio Creativo

Movement domains Animals Week ...

We take a somewhat frenetic months of moving domains. While they rarely sell one and that what I like is going to grow the portfolio with generic domains that might be developed in the future, in these weeks I ended up selling some that I thought were not close as a development anuncios.pro , or carta.info coctel.net for approximately 6,000 Euros in total.

But what most called my attention to some buying opportunities, especially in auctions that have appeared backorders. In the last 3 days I fish as interesting domains cultura.info (for $ 81US), mercados.info (60US $) and negocio.info ($ 230US) ... very little money. It is not the most significant has been so little money - but in 2 of the auctions were only 2 people, and the other was I the only one. That's really funny.

In recent years auctions snapnames, pool or namejet were crowded, and bidders and onlookers was really difficult to buy bargains. I see some of that has gone public and this has led me to register these domains 3 to see who can create content imminent.

I like those. Info, while my initial approach in order of preference, which was something like:

1 -. Com
2 -. Is
3 -. Net
4 -. Org and. Info 5 -. Mobi

I ended up moving to a scenario type

1 -. Com
2 -. Is
3-4. Net. Info
5 -. Tv

For me the. Mobi has ceased to exist, as I said once that I think is a bluff that fell in the beginning. The. Org and. Eu, three quarters of the same, and. Info and almost dragged the positions I appreciate the. net.

Register cultura.info me $ 81US for less seems like a joke, a plum, I see it clear to create cultural, mercado.info negocio.info and also have some development possibilities clear.

Just mention that you paid for 1 years musica.info about 5,000 Euros and the price of one and is just funny.

Not if every time there is less money for the sector of the domains or people are tired of the auction. But if they go out buying opportunities as this week I'll be happy, and will take, whether there are crises, and save to buy what they can, which will surely pull them to create projects in the coming years.

Tags:. Com,. Com,. Eu,. Info,. Mobi,. Net,. Org,. Pro, cultura.info, domains, mercado.info, negocio.info

This move ... or I have the desire?

Well, I do not know if this started after last summer seemed to last longer that 5 or 6 months, or simply the desire I have.

The crisis saw many stops TIME sector in August, with all the usual, but a minor revival in the sector in September, especially in online advertising. We all seemed to continue on vacation.

Recuerdo una cena, a finales de Octubre con un amigo, director comercial de internet en uno de los top3 grupos de comunicación de España, que me decía entre asustado e impresionado, que Septiembre había sido un desplome a la altura de Agosto y que en Octubre apenas habían despegado un 15% sobre ese nivel, algo jamás visto . También recuerdo algunos, y al menos cuento 3 buenos amigos que por recortes de presupuesto en la mayoría de los casos han sido despedidos de sus compañías en los últimos 3 meses . A alguno de ellos he podido recolocarlo en mis compañías, lamentablemente no a los tres. Es la parte más humana y más dura de esta situación tan enrarecida.

Es curioso, pero es real, todo afecta y en el sector hemos sido muy soberbios ante la llegada de la crisis los primeros meses con argumentos tipo “a las TICs no les toca esta vez, el sector está mucho más maduro que hace años, o la publicidad online seguirá creciendo igual aunque alrededor se desplome el mundo”. Nadie usa ya estos argumentos, y creo que las oportunidades están en notar el cambio de ciclo meses antes que los demás.

Veo en las últimas semanas muchos motivos de esperanza dentro del sector y veo sobre todo reacciones tras el susto, compañías que ya se ponen de verdad a trabajar pasado el shock. Espero que no sean simplemente motivo de la estacionalidad que hace que en Diciembre todo valga y se tengan que finiquitar los presupuestos aprobados hace más de un año.

A nivel macroeconómico ver el petróleo a 47US$ barril (eh! Que estaba hace 3 meses a 150US$!!), el Euribor bajando del 3,7 por primera vez en 3 años, el Banco Central Europeo recortando como nunca, y avisando que seguirá haciéndolo, el precio del dinero … si, sólo son indicadores, pero afectan a nuestras vidas a medio plazo y hacen pensar que esto repuntará aen unos meses y que todo mejorará.

Personalmente creo que lo negativo será el paro , seguirá cayendo aumentando en 2009 sobre todo porque las medidas que se han ido tomando y números macroeconómicos tardan en trasladarse a la economía real y aun debería caer bastante el empleo por eso (hay escenarios pesimistas que hablan de cerca de 4 millones de parados en España antes del verano). Pero confío en que tras un Enero y Febrero especialmente duros, justo antes del verano sea palpable el repunte.

Yo, como decía en las últimas semanas veo a mi alrededor que se ha retomado el ritmo frenético, de acuerdos, inversiones, y planes de futuro que estaban un poco congelados. Nosotros por nuestra parte hemos dejado solamente 1 proyecto en el congelador por un tema político, y me da pena porque tenía mucha esperanza en el y espero poder retomarlo en breve, es el proyecto de Madrid.net para el que no vamos a tener tantos fondos disponibles como preveíamos y habrá que replantearlo un poco. Como contraprestación lanzaremos 2 filiales que no teníamos previstas y que iré anunciando, la primera en Enero y llevamos ya trabajando 1 mes intenso en ello.

Espero que no sea un espejismo y que esto en 6 meses vaya rápidamente para arriba. Nosotros vamos a meter gasolina desde ya a los productos que preparamos apostando que así es. Fuimos de los primeros en tomar precauciones reales, y me gustaría ser de los primeros en incorporarnos al despegue, ya que eso es un tremendo factor competitivo; siempre es más fácil acelerar cuando ya se va en marcha, que tener que encender el coche en ese momento.

Espero no equivocarme.

Tags: crisis , Internet , Madrid.net , publicidad