Today I discovered an annoying fact about Firefox 3: when I misspell a site name in the address bar, it performs an "I'm feeling lucky" search on Google. No, not in the "search" filed, but right in the place where you would type an url and expect to be taken there. Perhaps it might seem helpful, but [...]
Cyburbia: the place where we go when we spend too much time hooked up to other people via a continuous web of electronic informationRemarkable book review (James Harkin - Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We are, reviewed by Jennie Bristow on sp!ked) outlining the convergence [...]
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 future of the newspaper industry, one would believe that we are condemned to reading increasingly lower-quality [...]
Nice concept - the digital tattoo, or the way in which inconsidered choices you made when publishing things will affect your online identity for a long time - and possibly forever:Just like a tattoo, your digital reputation is an expression of yourself. It's highly visible, and hard to remove.I have [...]
In his recent post, Brian Oberkirch describes some tendencies in presenting content on weblogs, with a couple of emerging layout elements.I am especially interested in the way some bloggers present themselves in their "about me" page or paragraph, with an "identity array" - that is a row of icons linked [...]
While writing an article with my friend and colleague Andrea Jurkic for "Sviluppo e Organizzazione"I decided to try to summarize the way web interactions have changed with a diagram. After a few attempts, I believe I have captured at least a couple of basic concepts. var addthis_pub = [...]
Universal McCann has published the results of a research on new forms of influence, involving 17,000 users in 29 Countries and trying to describe the way brands are influenced by web users. One of the most interesting parts is the attempt to create a detailed profile of the so-called "super influencers", [...]
I've always found Jakob Nielsen's considerations very helpful. But, after receiving a link to his articles via email, I realized I haven't read his alertbox for a while. Then, reading his considerations about blogs, I realized why:Obviously, I am referring to the user experience and to the style of the [...]
How an accident in customer relationship management (in the real world, not online...) can become a brand nightmare, just because the victim (or, more precisely, the mother of the victim) runs a blog. I do not want to discuss the moral aspects, which have been excellently tackled by the involved mother [...]
Fabio Turel
Mi occupo di innovazione da quando ho iniziato a occuparmi di qualcosa.
L'ho identificata a lungo con la tecnologia, quando ho scelto un istituto tecnico al posto del liceo.
Ho smesso di cercarla [...]
