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The quest for a digital city
What could a digital city be? Around twelve years ago, I've been working a few months with Marc Canter on this side of the Ocean, trying to build a digital city in Trieste. Perhaps that...
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Another bit of your privacy going down the drain
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...
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Personalized artwork
Use a section of your online identity to obtain a personalized artwork, centered around the way the web sees you (or, to be more precise, your name and surname): have a look at Personas, a component of...
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Twitterdämmerung
One month to create an Opera, libretto and musical score, and perform it - starting from just an opening scene:One morning, very early, a man and a woman were standing, arm-in-arm, in London’s Covent...
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Cyburbia
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...
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Imagine the Internet in 2020
One of the eight scenarios outlined in "The Future of Internet - 3" (Elon University/Pew Internet Project) survey is about identity - namely, The Evolution of Privacy, Identity, and Forgiveness:...
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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...
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Another tile in the Networked Identity mosaic
Proofile is a personal data management service, allowing users to save basic information about themselves and share it across different social networks. Their promise is not a new one:Are you fed up with...
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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...
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Social Notworking
The Urban Dictionary strikes againSocial Notworking The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working. Joe - Hey, Mark is constantly updating...