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Some very cool features are coming this Monday for the Interest Feed! We are coding the final...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:05:08 -0300

Some very cool features are coming this Monday for the Interest Feed! We are coding the final touches right now..

Oh, there’s a new video about me! It has a sneak peek of some sexy features that will be added...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:31:07 -0300

Oh, there’s a new video about me! It has a sneak peek of some sexy features that will be added very soon. Check it on http://popego.blip.tv

What a great day my friends! A lot of users from Germany started using me and gave very valuable...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:31:07 -0300

What a great day my friends! A lot of users from Germany started using me and gave very valuable feedback. Now I need to learn Deutsch!

We have created a video demoing Popego in just 2 minutes.

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:30 -0300

We have created a video demoing Popego in just 2 minutes.

Working Very Hard

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:58:06 -0300

Yes, it’s true that we don’t update this blog very often. But while we are still on alpha, we have put all of our efforts on creating a magnificent product.

Yet we understand the importance of making some noise on Popego, and we can start saying that some exciting features are about to be revealed.

Anyhow, here are some pictures of the team working very hard…

Popego's First Leak? Autoblog is out!

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:25:54 -0300

Well, I must admit it wasn’t exactly a leak. When I twittered last monday about a little sneak peek to reveal one of the features of Popego, the Autoblog, it suddenly got blogged on Denken Uber and in a matter of hours, hundreds of autoblogs were created.

The concept is simple: if you already have a friendfeed account or use many web services, just introduce your username and you’ll instantaneously get a personal page that can be browsed by using your tags to filter the content.

Pretty simple, very fun. Give it a try!

To quote what Mariano Amartino said on the blog:

The design is really good, specially if we compare it like in this screenshot against other services, with the very interesting twist that the person has more importance than the rest of the content.

This is just a preview of some of the very sexy stuff we are working on. We are glad that, even though it wasn’t supposed to be a public thing yet, it got a good review already.

Stay tuned!

It’s been a long time since we have updated the blog. And...

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:59:00 -0300

It’s been a long time since we have updated the blog. And that has to do with the simple fact we have been working a lot on Popego and we are very excited with some of the new stuff we are currently developing.

So we came to San Francisco. We’ll be at the Web 2.0 Expo and some other places during a whole month. If you are nearby, you can contact me with a mail to santi [at] popego com.

BarCamp Miami, FOWA and More

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:01:00 -0200

Last week I’ve been on Miami ready for some Web 2.0 action in the BarCamp and on the Future Of Web Apps event held over there. Here It was a very interesting event for us, because it was the first time we would show some of the stuff we are working with Popego to a more international crowd.

BarCamp Miami

It was very well organized. It was my second expierence at a BarCamp (the first one was on Buenos Aires) and I must say that there isn’t much difference on the contents and quality of the presentations. Many of the things that were buzzing on the air during BarCamp (“openID”, “widgets”, “web standards”) weren’t a novelty.

This kind of events helps to validate some of the things you constantly read at blogs online. The value is on getting to meet interesting people and being able to see what kind of projects they are working on.

I made a presentation (with demo) of the current version that’s live of Popego. I think it made a good impact because I’ve got a lot of feedback and suggestions for our idea. For instance Kevin Marks, the OpenSocial evangelizer of Google seemed interested on our project. And yes, we are very interested in OpenSocial’s API. Make sure have a look to his conference about the social cloud.

Future of Web Apps

On Friday the 29th, a whole day of conferences from web luminaries began. Here’s a brief summary of My Top 3:

I enjoyed the experienced advice from Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. Using the metaphore of scalability he explained not only how to scale up technology, but also your business and community. Also Matt owns probably the coolest URL in history and he came to Argentina last October. He told me he was very impressed on the web community that’s over there.

Leah Culver from Pownce highlighted the need of having a good API on your web app. She even made a public apology for not implementing a solid 1.0 API for Pownce and announced a new version of it right there. Guess we’ll have to check that out for Popego.

Gary Vaynerchuk from Winelibrary.tv is something special. You must see him on his podcast to know what kind of guy I’m talking about here. He took the stage and started “speaking from the heart” (sic) about how much he cares about his community. He gave good advice on being out there answering questions and mails 24/7 to start building a community around your service. He says he answers all his mails.. I’m tempted on giving that a try.

Face-to-Face Networking

Finally, one of the best things of this events is getting to know people that are as passionate and enthusiastic about their ideas like we are.

Martin Añazco & Diego Meller (Livra), Esteban Sosnik (our Angel Investor), Santiago Siri (Popego) and Elliot Adams (CDBaby).

I must say that I had a ton of fun and it was great being at the conference with Diego Meller and Martín Añazco from Livra and Devego. These guys have been on the web business for 8 straight years, surviving the bubble burst and being innovators on the market research field. They have some exciting projects on the oven and you might want to keep a close eye on them.

Also Elliot Adams from CDBaby joined us on a dinner. One great thing Elliot told me was that each time he looked for programmers to work with, he always likes to see people that have interests that go beyond the mere writing of code. Being his service a very useful tool for musicians, it’s no wonder he’s also a DJ.

Finally, there were lots of colleagues from LatinAmerica. No wonder Miami is considered the latino capital. Dani Undurraga of Needish, a very cool app to connect needs with solutions was very enthusiastic about how much he has learned on the workshops. And Nico Orellana of Webprendedor was blogging and connecting with everyone out there. Nico has some exciting ideas to promote statups in Latinamerica and is preparing a big event in Santiago de Chile.

Just being able to hang out and chat with experienced web developers from leading companies made the whole trip to Miami very valuable.

Kevin Rose (Digg) was wearing a killer shirt that night.. ok, you’re guessing right, but the plain green was screaming for it. Needless to say, Kevin was pretty cool to talk with.

Hopefully, I’ll see you on the next web conference!

(*Written by Santi Siri, founder of Popego).

Santi Coffey recorded the first part of the presentation we made...

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:40:35 -0200

Santi Coffey recorded the first part of the presentation we made about Popego to some close friends that tested our application in its current “Concept” stage. The video has 6 parts which you can see in order here.

On them, you’ll see our CEO Emiliano Kargieman making a brief introduction about the idea. Santiago Siri is explaining the product’s philosophy and Victor Calvello is in charge of the demos.

Unfortunately the videos are in spanish. We’ll do english versions soon.

Video

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:38:16 -0200

Video

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:38:06 -0200

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:37:41 -0200

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:36:49 -0200

The formula for Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:37:02 -0200

The formula for Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS): Sramana Mitra, a consultant in Sillicon Valley, wrote a very interesting post with a simple formula to describe the escence of the “Web 3.0”.

70+ Developers, Entrepeneurs and Investors at the first Palermo Valley Nights

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:39:00 -0200

I’m simply amazed by what has happened last Thursday. According to Mariano Amartino, the meme Palermo Valley got so powerful that it has provoked a slashdot effect on the bar where all the geeks of Buenos Aires met: They ran out of beers!

When I jokingly began pushing this meme, I never expected this thing to become so big, so fast. It certainly has prooved to me the power behind Twitter: when it’s correctly used, it can communicate simple good ideas to large groups beyond your reach.

Truth is that anyone owns the word Palermo Valley, and that’s the reason why it got so big. Everyone felt identified with this idea and we just gained consciousness as a group.

Here are some pictures of the event:

Very soon the place got full of geeks. We were very happy for our new neighbourhood.

Me and Vanesa gave a short speech about the 3 rules of Palermo Valley and how happy we were: it’s the beginning of something big.

And here is the proof of the slashdot effect: There were no more beers available (looks like I’m having the last one) and no more physical space inside the bar.

We are organizing a new Palermo Valley soon. If you can read spanish, check the blog, we are cooking up some fun ideas for the future.

*Written by Santi Siri (founder of Popego)

Success: Palermo Valley is Real

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:15:00 -0200

Palermo is a famous neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, and it’s so big and vast that has many different zones. The place where all the TV studios are, is known as Palermo Hollywood and another zone with fashion boutiques is also known as Palermo Soho, giving a cosmopolitan glamour to the entire place.

3 weeks ago, I’ve noticed that there were many technological start ups appearing in the zone. When I mentioned this to my father, he jokingly said: “So it looks like you are in Palermo Valley”. Eureka! From that day onwards, to my ears the neighbourhood had a brand new name.

When I told this story to Emiliano, Manuel and Victor (members of the pop team) we agreed instantly that this meme needed to be pushed as far as possible. Twitter was the appropiate tool, so I began to tweet intensely the new meme.

Long story short: In less than 3 weeks, palermovalley.com has been created by Vanesa K, the word is out on a lot of local technology blogs and a new event is going to be held this thursday for all entrepreneurs/bloggers/etc in Buenos Aires, it’s called “Palermo Valley Nights” thanks to Vanesa.

Now that the meme has become a local reality, I’m blogging this on english to start giving international exposure to our brand new neighbourhood Palermo Valley and the exciting start ups that are appearing down here.

Remember: You’ve read about it here first.

*Written by Santi Siri (founder of Popego)

11 things to know about the Semantic Web

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:47:33 -0200

11 things to know about the Semantic Web

Click on the picture for bigger detail. Mr. Coffey got really...

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:40:00 -0200

Click on the picture for bigger detail.

Mr. Coffey got really inspired after his first drawing and he came up with a great idea about making a comic strip. This is actually a real story of what happened in our office last week. Hope you enjoy some of the little fun we get while we develop Popego.

Our team is flooded with engineers and developers.. yet, a spark...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:23:00 -0200

Our team is flooded with engineers and developers.. yet, a spark of artistic inspiration motivated our coder Santi Coffey to draw a portrait of the entire Popego Team. He seems to be that rare breed of coders who can actually draw very well!