The ID web
I will try to answer a question that popped up in the comments to a previous post:what are the next steps in taking the real world on the web?[thanks to Roberto Carraro for asking]Most of the discussions...
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Why the 3D web is 2.0
Sometimes criticism helps you find the reason for some of your ideas, and a thing that you consider to be perfectly obvious becomes, all of a sudden, questionable. The challenged belief for today was "Second...
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Graph or Grid?
The analogy is striking, and the coincidence as well. I have recently had a chat with Anthony Candiello (from INFN's Grid Computing Technology Transfer Office) about one of the most fascinating trends...
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Symmetries
Some say that Wikia, Wikipedia-like approach to search, is not likely to succeed. Some say that Knol, Google's approach to open knowledge, is not likely to succeed. My opinion is that open search is one...
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Christmas trouble with virtual assistants
Looks like Luca Chittaro is not the only one having arguments with virtual assistants:Microsoft recently brought into the world an online "Santa bot" -- an interactive chat program for...
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The apparent conflict between freedom and intellectual property
The DRM debate ignited by the alarming proposal made by Nicolas Sarkozy is in my opinion one of the most relevant tech issues this year. The attention-catching part of the proposal is about cutting off...
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Protected identity?
Cyberbullying, organized insult, hate groups are enabled by social networking sites as well as the positive goals that can be pursued within those environments: I just read two Facebook case histories...
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Mobile devices that are good for your health
Today I visited Luca Chittaro and his HCI Lab team at the Udine University: after sharing a laugh about his recent disadventures with digital assistants, I had a great time in seeing some of the exciting...
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Taxes, terrorists and single-sign-on
Dan Miller, a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, explained yesterday the virtual world issues that are in his opinion the most important ones to be addressed by the...
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If it bursts like a bubble, is it necessarily a bubble?
The Wall Street Journal wisely says:When eBay Inc. purchased Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005, Wall Street wondered how the Internet-calling company could be worth so much.Actually, and contrary to common...
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Blind date
It may be easy to dismiss this story with a laugh, but it would be unfair.A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the Internet are divorcing. Sana Klaric and husband Adnan,...