It seems that this Facebook patent covers what we were already doing in 2001/02. I did not have time to go through the details, except reading the Slashdot story, but this patent, the way it is described in the abstract, covers what Splinder (the largest Italian blogging and community
A different take to data organization: let data organize itself (as much as you can). I have been exploring this concept for a while now. Again, this is the right direction, and, as you can see from the video, the most interesting application of the concept is the innovative text
This article about the search for better quality of life out of the Bay Area reminded me of the reason why I tend to move around looking for new places. According to the article, the need for better quality should be balanced against what one really loses leaving a big
I was invited to give a talk at Bristol Meyer Squibb for a Marketing Seminar in Paris. The idea was to give a sense of the change happening on the Net/Web, how it affects corporations and what can be done about it. It was an opportunity to formalize some
I have been thinking about this for years and now it seems that the technology and the business model are ready for prime time. Not that I wanted to start a company out of it, because the business is too much capital intensive for how I like to work. The
I was interviewed while attending the conference: How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad. The conference was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Kauffman Foundation. Richard Boly organized the event at Stanford. The interview is about Italy.
I am attending the First Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Evaluation. The discussion is about the evolution of the scientific paper in the 21st century. There is a pretty diverse group of people attending, from accademia (computer scientists, philosophers, etc), from the industry (mainly scientific publishers), from the
If you watch this video from the BBC, you will probably agree that books will never be replaced by electronic readers because: * you can rinse a book after accidentally dropping it in the tub * book pages do not reflect light like e-readers do when reading at night in your bed
I am in Winchester, the AlifeXI conference starts tomorrow. An (indoor!) BBQ will take place in a few minutes. It's raining and I am looking forward to see how an indoor BBQ works ;-) that's England! When I left this morning Milan was hot and mosquitoes
Today I finally had time to comment on this article, which three different people mentioned to me. The article is about how the way we think is being changed by new technology, the Internet and the Web. To make the point, there are a lot of good examples of how
Last Thursday I participated to a round table with President George W. Bush, while he was visiting Rome. Politics was not involved in this, I was invited to talk about 1GN, the not for profit network that we created last year to foster entrepreneurship in Italy. The transcript of my
This article, by Paul Graham, perfectly describes our state of mind when building Splinder into the largest blogging platform in Italy. We focused on users, that was our compass, and we focused on usage growth, not on generating revenues, because that would have killed the project. We kept costs down