What is the Pulse of Las Palmas?
- A work in progress…
- Curated Events and What’s On Guides.
- Curated News for Las Palmas in English.
- Language Guides.
- History and Culture.
- Directories of Museums, Parks etc.
- A directory of English Speaking businesses.
- See the Project Roadmap
Who is LPA Pulse for?
- Me, because I want to know what’s going on!
- Day trippers wanting to fill 6 hours.
- Tourists staying a few nights.
- Long term visitors.
- Digital Nomads.
- English Expats.
What it is and what it isn’t:
- It’s human written, curated and authentic.
- It isn’t AI clickbait slop to push sponsored link spam.
- It’s truly stand alone independent.
- It isn’t affiliated or sponsored by anyone or anything.
- It’s realtime trackers, tools and handy assistants
- It’s not fear-bating every time the weather changes
How is this a thing?
I was sitting on a roof terrace on Calle de Luis Morote📍 and realised if I wanted to read an amazing English speaking guide to Las Palmas I was going to have to write it myself.
There are well established news sites and events guides for the islands but nothing with a laser sharp focus on Las Palmas, where events, guides, culture, history and news all merge into one.
That thought landed in my brain at about 01:00 in the morning and I knew I had to act on it.
I thought it sounded like a fun challenge, so here we are!
Who is behind LPA Pulse?
- I’m Andy and I’m English / Soy Andy de Inglaterra.
- Background in Commercial Radio.
Presenter. Producer. Programme Controller. Management.
Beacon / Minster / Stray / Trent / Viking FM, Leicester Sound. - Former BBC Audio Editor (live sports production).
- Authored local newspaper articles. Printed analogue slop!
Scarborough Evening News.(Yorkshire Coast Radio)
Loughborough Echo. (107 Oak FM) - Went digital, sold ringtones / melodías.
Created a powerful platform to deliver mobile content.
Sold over a million ringtones.
Provided ringtone content to mobile networks and the BBC. - Sold music online.
Had a catalogue of 6,500,000 high quality, legal, licensed, mp3 tracks for sale to the public to download and stream. - Invented a couple of funky internet things.
“WordPress Mobile Plugin” and “Mobile Device Detection”
Both had hundreds of thousands of users.
NASA, Nintendo, Stanford and Shrek all used my code. - Paid for something on a mobile with PayPal? I did that first.
First merchant live with “PayPal Mobile” – May, 2007.
Speaker at PayPal MUSIC event, London, June, 2007. - My work was cited in about twelve books.
- Burned out, went bust.
- Found myself in Las Palmas.
- Then in Palma de Mallorca to launch a radio station.
- And back to Las Palmas time and time again!
Today the site is a one-man band though I’d love to make this page about the team: can you bring skills to the table?