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Philippe Starck speacking at Le Web 3

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

When I was in Paris to attend Le Web 3, I decided to record some of the keynotes. Here you can find the one of Philippe Starck, a great designer and a very good showman

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Elements for a Social Media Theory

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently I wrote an short essay about social media for Nova 24 Review (a bymonthly magazine about technology published by Il Sole 24 Ore). I translated it and I would like to discuss at Lift on February 7 or 8. Download the pdf and let me know what you think:
Nicola Mattina - Elements for a […]

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Interview with Fabrizio Capobianco (Funambol)

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Internet is not accessed with mobile phones for two main reasons: devices are designed for voice instead that for managing data; mobile operators have discouraging data plans and, since now, have preferred to try to exploit (without success) their walled gardens. Nevertheless, it is clear that the next big thing in when people will be […]

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Italian bloggers blame the Levi-Prodi law

October 23rd, 2007 · 10 Comments

The Italian government has proposed a bill gathering all of the laws regarding the publishing industry in one text. The bill must be discussed in Parliament however since it isn’t included in this government’s electoral program, it’s highly unlikely that it will make the agenda.
Nevertheless, the bill is very controversial and is seen as an […]

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Second Life and its business colonisers

July 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Second Life is fashionable and in the news. This fact has not escaped the notice of some firms which have engaged their own consultants to organise their presence in the “new world”. So far the conquest of the promised land has occurred through the colonisation of virtual islands, on which prestigious and striking buildings have […]

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Interview with Ian Forrester and Matthew Cashmore

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

BBC Backstage is the BBC’s developer network that encourages the creation of non-commercial applications based on contents produced by the English television network. BBC offers these contents as RSS feeds and Apis, so that they can be easily manipulated and mixed with other information to create new services: mash-ups that use the Google Maps, billboards […]

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Interview with Simon Willison

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Simon Willison is a brilliant developer and the co-creator of the Django Web framework. Before going freelance Simon worked on Yahoo!’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon is also one of the most active OpenID evangelist. I met him in London in […]

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Interview with Tara Hunt

July 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Tara Hunt is one of the most active professional in the field of marketing 2.0 and worked in many different sectors. She has created successful communities and is often invited to speak to important conferences like Future of Web Apps, ETech e Web 2.0 Expo. I met her in London in February and interviewed to […]

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Bruce Perens meets Italian bloggers

July 4th, 2007 · No Comments

On June 8, 2007 Bruce Perens met a bunch of Italian bloggers in Rome to talk about open source.

The talk is very interesting: Bruce talks about his experiences developing open source software for big and conservative companies like Merryl Linch and other financial institutions and about the difference between differentiating and non-differentiating software.
The first one […]

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Interview with Daniel Waterhouse

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Daniel Waterhouse is a Sector Partner with 3i with a sector focus on internet/web2.0 and consumer technology investments. He joined 3i at the start of 2006 and is involved in investments and portfolio support on a global basis. Daniel has extensive knowledge of and network within the sector.
I met him in London in February and […]

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