After several weeks of hard work on both client projects and this very own website, we are glad to announce the launch of the new Burconsult ® online presence. We have always wanted to offer our clients and visitors detailed information about our services and past and current projects. This is what we focused on on this new website. It contains an extensive portfolio with details about clients and the projects, as well as testimonials from some of our partners and customers. More pages will be added in the next few days with details about our partners and our wide range of services.

We are also launching a new blog integrated into the main website where we will be publishing news about technology, about our work and the web in general.

Also, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter or like our page on Facebook. Thank you all for your support during these years and we are looking forward to assisting you with all your web needs in the future!

Fun in the sun tonight comes from Apple and Adobe, both companies with recent major product launches: iPhone OS 4.0 from Apple - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialevent0410/  - and Creative Suite 5 from Adobe - http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?promoid=FDKBR - just 24h ago. Steve Jobs bashing is on like crazy, on Facebook as well, just check this “I’m with Adobe” group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=113492765344092 – a Flash developer friend invited me to join (I’m pretty neutral so far btw – just waiting for the Silverlight people to join in and maximize the fun ).

And as a cherry on top (round and red just like its logo), Opera Mini just hit the AppStore, yes mine venner fra Opera (that’s “my friends from Opera” in Norwegian), you can stop that countup - http://my.opera.com/community/countup/. I installed it just an hour ago and it is pretty fast, I mean it’s supposed to with all the compression it does before loading the content. I had used it a while back on my WinMobile HTC Touch and it was THE best option back then. Don’t know about now, kind of half-baked in some parts, but making it to the AppStore is a victory in itself.

Not to mention it can load the “Install Adobe Flash Player” page on adobe.com without getting the resentful message Safari gets on the iPhone. Quoting starts now: “Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch.”

I leave you with a couple of fresh screenshots for you to savor. It’s on like Donkey Kong?!? (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=its%20on%20like%20donkey%20kong )

At the EXECOM-YES (Young European entrepreneurs meet-up) event on the 10th of April 2010 in Alicante, Spain, I asked Chris Hughes (one of Facebook's co-founders) what was the most important lesson he learned as an individual during the past few years, mainly from the success of Facebook and of the Obama campaign. Here's his answer on video and some (pretty bad, thank you iPhone) pics from the event.

YoNoCocino.com (I Don’t Cook) is a web directory which connects home delivery food venues with customers across the internet. The platform offers its users the possibility to view all restaurants in their vicinity in one place, ordered by the type of food served, select the one they like best, have a look at the list of dishes available, place an order and pay online.

All of this in one website with a slick and intuitive design, both for users placing their order as well as for the restaurants adding or updating their menus and prices.

This way, our initiative will allow for a smoother access to the online market for the restaurants using it, a sector which is still pretty traditional at its core and has to reinvent itself in order to adapt to the growing demand from a new emerging customer base.

With Yonococino.com, you cook it, I'll eat it.

http://www.yonococino.com

Vote for YoNoCocino.com in the BVA Open Talent - http://bit.ly/4TGDB0

Ayer hicimos una carta bastante grande para los Reyes Magos (en Alcoy la cabalgata es la más antigua dicen, cumple 125 años de existencia), a ver que nos traen. A mí ya me llegaron estos dos libros está mañana. Mmmmm, mi colección de Sitepoint ocupa un buen trozo en la estantería y The Smashing Book promete ser una pasada también. Que lleguen cargados … los Reyes claro!

Ah, y como bonus os dejo una foto de un disfraz bastante peculiar/original en Nochevieja.

It’s been a while since posting to Posterous since loads have happened. As you know, I’ve been to iWeekend Alicante http://www.iweekend.org/2009/alicante/ , had a great time and will be working on developing the winning project www.yonococino.com. I was pushing @garyvee ‘ s book CrushIt” http://www.crushitbook.com/  so I got the wristband from them which I’m still wearing (great for wrist exhaustion from over-using the mouse). Thanks VaynerMedia guys!

Worked on some exciting projects for top clients with Justin from www.justdesignstudio.com and we developed what I consider more than a great working relationship. You can check some of the Xperia X10 photos from Sony Ericsson on my Flickr page (that’s an awesome phone we are helping promote).

But it’s not all roses, since my wife, Inma, is in the hospital since Friday for a stress-related ailment. Tomorrow they’re running some test so we’ll know more. It doesn’t seem to be serious so far, just exhaustion (she’s been working too much, what with the whole swine flu vaccination campaign an all). She was better today, just missing our baby Joan a lot.

I’ve thrown together a few photos from the good ‘ol iPhone with this post. Sorry to my Spanish-speaking followers, but no Spanish version of the post (get with the program!) There’s one from Ofo’s birthday, another from the hospital with Inma, the CrushIt wristband, a couple of the FrikiWear boys (snapshot from www.userbooth.com) , an old Sony Vaio I had to reinstall XP on for a friend and a blurry pic of the advent calendar  I bought the other day.

And on a funny note (if you know Romanian) there’s a screenshot with some “great” song name translations from Spotify.

Yes, I’m on spotting new music on Spotify (although I prefer my Grooveshark for now), riding the Google Wave (Jeez Louise…), beta-testing the to-be-out-in-2010 MS Office Starter (free MS Office version for home users including Word and Excel – looking pretty good actually), got my FonYou number and other techie what-the-heck-is-he-talking-about things.

Oh, and just got off Skype with Andrew from Adamson USA http://adamson-usa.com after assisting him on the FancyPlayer tutorial code I’ve released this summer and revisited a few weeks ago on WGDB http://www.webgurusdesignblog.com/ .

Overall, it’s been an exciting and a bit overwhelming end of the year, which I sincerely hope will culminate with a great Xmas and New Year’s at home with the family (Inma, get better soon, Joan and I  love you and are waiting for you back home). Back with more updates soon. Thank you all for caring and have a great December!