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“Love is everything…” Amazing new sand art from Ilana Yahav.

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An incredible but true story: Spanish authorities prosecute child for terrorism when he e-mails companies requesting labelling in Catalan language, using Phoenix monicker from Harry Potter books.
Police accuse him of organizing an Al Qaeda cell. Case goes all the way to Spanish High Court.

http://english.ericielfenix.cat U.S. press enquiries: Emily Moore, tel. (865) 254-5244 OgleMoore[at]gmail[dot]com
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In your opinion, what are the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs are making?
1. Not sharing their ideas, and being afraid of competitors.
2. Trying to perfect version 1.0, instead of shipping and iterating.
3. Being overly focused on money or exits.
4. Not building something they’d use (if they hadn’t built it).
5. Trying to do everything themselves.
From an interview [...]

Great products almost always come from someone scratching their own itch. Create something you want to exist in the world. Be a user of your own product. Hire people who are users of your product. Make it better based on your own desires.
My comment: Isn’t this something stakeholder-focused?

If your an entrepreneur, you’d probably like to [...]

A few days ago, David Sifry visited some students in a EsKuel@ and told them that…
… In an Economy based on Scarcity of Attention…

You CAN Change the World
You don’t need a big team to do it
A Big team may kill it
Make your users your evangelists
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I’m preparing for next course and I’ve been making the calendar… once again. And I decided to try to make a perpetual one (once and for all, for ever). Just choose the year and it will build automatically.
Here it is (weeks start on Monday):

We see here a link to save it as excel, but [...]

Wikis are one of the most useful and incredible web 2.0 tools. Just have a look at the Wikipedia to realize their power.
If you’re new to this technology, the following video is the best simplest explanation I’ve found for you.
If you don’t know how to use it for travelers or tourism, this is a example [...]

This is a funny post for those who have to deal with tangible and intangible concepts, like people in the tourism sector and studies.
Tourism is an activity among those involving tangible and intangible resources. However, since they have different nature, they follow different rules it’s important to understand.
If we apply tools designed for intangible resources [...]

On March 17 & 18, I attended the course “Els rapinyaires del Delta de l’Ebre i dels Ports“.
Theoretical Session :
We had the theory on the 17th in the morning.
The animals we were about to see are classified in the order of Falconiformes, with 4 families:
Carthartidae (sub-order, vultures)
Pandionae (Fish Eagle)
Accipitridae (hawks, eagles, kites, harriers…)
Sagittaridae (secretary bird)
Falconidae [...]

Blogging is a serious thing.
When you make pop you cannot stop
After more than one year in Blogger, I’m now in a Wordpress with my domain to start a new project: a more focused blog than the previous one, in five language independent versions.
I’m starting without some things I’ll learn on the way, [...]