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iCastellers, the ultimate catalan challenge

On February 25, 2012 By pepi

If you like challenges related with culture you might also like an application I recently localized: iCastellers. It’s a Catalan Application with which you can enjoy constructing “human castles” alone or playing against other people.

Based on Catalan Culture, this application introduces you into building “human castles” or “castells”. You can choose [...]

Presentation about Creative Commons

On July 8, 2011 By pepi

Presentation about CC in English Presentation about CC in Spanish

I prepared two presentations about Creative Commons. They are exactly the same thing, but, one is in English and the other one is in Spanish. These presentations are ready [...]

Some burned Rome, others destroy even further its ruins

On January 10, 2011 By pepi

Last week I bought “le nouvel Observateur” (du 23 décembre au 5 janvier 2010). Inside its pages you can find the second death of Pompei (la seconde Mort de Pompéi), a very shocking and unbelievable article by Marcelle Padovani. In it you can find the its ins and outs of the crime against culture [...]

Starting up in Japan

On December 19, 2010 By pepi

To start a business, whatever it is about, wherever in the world we are thinking to start it, we need to invest. I’m sure that when you listen to the word “investment” you are mainly thinking about “money”, but in fact what you have to invest are three different things, and yes one is money. [...]

「朝活」Asakatsu, the mornings are changing for the Japanese

On November 10, 2010 By pepi

In Japanese we can find some words that relate to certain social activities, such as 婚活 (konkatsu, marriage hunting) or 就活 (shuukatsu, job hunting). These words usually have the kanji 「活」meaning “activity” or “action”. The latest 「活」is related to mornings.

「朝活」(asakatsu, morning activities) is a word which refers [...]

Doing Business with Japanese #1- Americans

On November 7, 2010 By pepi

Every culture has its own cultural hidden and unhidden codes. These codes color all aspects of everyday life, including business. Culture, we like it or not, is communication. Every cultural world works with its own internal dynamics, its own principles and laws. Failing to grasp, understand or deal with them could be disastrous if we [...]