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Submitted by Martinvars from blog: When I left USA in 1995 and moved to Europe the start up scene in the Continent was pretty dead. But a lot has changed since then and events like TechTour 09 are further proof that in Europe there is great talent, capital and great ideas. And surprisingly in a crisis these three [...]. (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: People frequently tell me that I should not disclose so much information about myself as it could potentially be used by criminals, kidnappers and the like to harm me or my family. Interestingly, it is mostly my German friends who tend to argue this point. Germans, as Americans, seem to have a skewed [...]. (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: Image via CrunchBase At Fon we run the largest, global, WiFi network in the world. It is a network built by the people. Fon is a clever piece of software that makes two WiFi networks out of your normally one WiFi only router. One network is encrypted, very safe and for you alone [...]. (Read More)

Nov 08, 2009

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: Our home in Madrid is called Casavars. It was designed by the Spanish Architects Acebo y Alonso. I recently started photography lessons. I am on to my second class. My teacher is Spanish photographer Mauro Fuentes who is also Spain´s number one photography blogger. His blog is called Fotomaf. [...]. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: Image via Wikipedia My investors at Fon include most of the people and companies that were involved in the recent sale of Skype. At Fon we have eBay, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom personally as investors and board members, Mike Volpi personally as an investor and board member, Danny Rimer as a board member and [...]. (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: This post is only directed to Europeans and it is based on the possibility to bring the Peek to Europe. This is not an annoucement and the Peek may or may not come to Europe. Now here´s the question. Peek is basically an email machine. You can study the product [...]. (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Martinvars from blog: I don´t know if many people do this. But personally I can´t live without my “cloud” in my pocket. I have different Macs. At home I have a big iMac. At work I have another one. I also have a MacBookPro that I carry around sometimes but I find it [...]. (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English As most of my readers are not Americans I would like to share what Halloween in USA, in Miami of all places can look like. Enjoy! Share This . (Read More)

Oct 31, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English Remember that imaginary product called La Fatera (coming from La Fonera)? Well it now exists and it´s called Withings. It is so exactly what we blogged about that if it is a coincidence Loic Le Meur and I will accept not to take royalties. The Withings (terrible name) is actually very well designed. It is a scale that s (Read More)

Oct 31, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English People are not absolutely rich, absolutely middle class, or absolutely poor. A person who makes 1000 euros a month is poor in Europe and well off in Brasil. Now add financial crisis to the euro at $1.5 and while I can´t gurantee you that you will be rich in Miami I assure you you will definitely be richer in Miami than wh (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English Our dear friend David Sifry is known to most as the founder of Technorati, and now of Offbeat Guides. But what few know is that he is also an amazing photographer. Here´s the proof in our first installment of our wedding pictures. But as you will see, Nina and I decided to open source the photography at our wedding and as (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English Image via WikipediaAl Qaeda´s actions on 9 11 2001 changed America´s view of the world. Immediately after the terrorist attacks the Bush Administration, came to the conclusion that America as a whole was under attack and that the solution was preventive warfare to be fought in the Muslim world. But what if USA government (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English The long awaited WiFi P2P has been announced. This is how Om Malik describes it.The Wi-Fi Alliance today issued a new standard to augment Wi-Fi, called Wi-Fi Direct, that turns a Wi-Fi chip into a mini access point. The technology allows your Wi-Fi gadgets to talk to one another without having to get on a network, and enab (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English Warning. I just made the following feature wish list not knowing exactly which sites have what features. These are features that I wish I had, maybe I do and I don´t know. Also where I say Facebook, you can change that for the social network of your choice. In Spain for example Tuenti beats Facebook among young people.F (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

Martin Varsavsky | English Aphrodite is being painted right now in Barcelona. Assuming it all goes well she will leave Barcelona Nov 1st and be in Barbados around Dec 10th. Stops will be Gibraltar and Canaries a day each for provisioning. Last time Aphrodite did Canaries, Barbados in only 12 days. I am not doing the crossing myself but I am putti (Read More)

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