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29 ottobre 2009 - 18:02

High-profile users

Last Saturday, the White House announced the launch of Recovery.org, the U.S. government's official website providing access to information on how the Recovery Act money is spent and allowing for the report of potential fraud, waste, and abuse. As if it were meant to set an example, the site is built with Drupal - an Open Source, therefore license-free solution. Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Opinioni brevi, Tecnologia

TAGS: Barack Obama, Drupal, recovery.org

3 agosto 2009 - 23:04

Cutthroat Capitalism - the game

For those who have read Cutthroat Capitalism - an economic analysis of the Somali piracy business model on the last Wired issue (on the Italian edition as well), a nice complement can be found on the wired.com website: Cutthroat Capitalism... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Giochi

TAGS: Cutthroat Capitalism - the game, somali pirates, wired, wired italia

22 maggio 2009 - 13:46

Resources for innovators

Through the BizSpark programme, Microsoft offers to support startups (those engaged in the development of software-based products or services) by making their platforms and business solutions available for 3 years - at a symbolic price. To participate, startups need to... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Opinioni brevi

TAGS: bizspark, innovation, microsoft, startup

21 aprile 2009 - 22:45

Things to do with troublesome blogs

Last Sunday, a blog claimed to be in possession of the results of a "stress test" on the health of the 19 top banks in the US. The leaked report was said to show that several were "technically insolvent". It... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Economia e finanza, Opinioni brevi

31 marzo 2009 - 17:34

Disintermediating their own business

Some of the greatest innovations originated by the web are based on disintermediation: one decade ago, "cut the middle man" was one of the most frequently used descriptions of how existing business models would be impacted by the new economy.... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Media, Prima pagina, Web/Tecnologia

TAGS: guardian, newspapers, open platform, opg, the guardian

23 marzo 2009 - 23:17

Newspapers as markets

What do we buy when we pay for a newspaper? Everybody says it is not the paper, and it is difficult to object. But perhaps it is not just the content as well. After reading dozens of articles about the... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Italy, Prima pagina, Rischi e opportunità, Web/Tecnologia, Weblog

TAGS: advertising, attention economy, business model, famiglia cristiana, intangibles, newspapers, reputation economy

17 marzo 2009 - 6:46

Intangibles and news

There is a rich debate going on about the role played by traditional newspapers in the online information ecosystem (Shirky, Berlin Johnson), in view of the double challenge posed by technology on both content creation (the old mainstream vs blogs... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Identity, Media, Opinioni brevi

20 novembre 2008 - 7:21

Narrating our way out of the crisis

What have the Obama victory and the financial crisis to do with Marxism and narrative? A lot, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It is unlikely that the financial meltdown of 2008 will function as a blessing in disguise,... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Economia e finanza, Opinioni brevi, Rischi e opportunità

1 ottobre 2008 - 22:41

When activism, regulations and the market march in the same direction

Following their intention to develop a national nuclear energy plan, the Energy Ministry of Turkey launched a call for bids to build the Country's first nuclear power plant. Just two days after a spectacular protest (followed by the arrest of... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Dal mondo, Ecologia, Economia

28 agosto 2008 - 22:55

Nuclear power financial arithmetics

Remarkable post about the financial feasibility of the nuclear power plan promoted by the Berlusconi government (DL n.112, 25/6/2008, art. 7), written by an experienced (although anonymous) manager who works in an investment Company. Image from Flickr.com, CC by Bistrosavage... Continua a leggere

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Categorie: Economia, Economia e finanza, Italy

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