EU Profiler
As the EU Parliament election day draws closer, more and more political self-assessment tools are published. Besides an enjoyable toy, I found this one [EU Profiler] as a particularly meaningful one in...
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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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Facebook & OpenId
So what if we'll be able to login to Facebook with an OpenId account?Facebook potentially makes a huge step backwards: the whole authentication and verification process can be delegated to indipendent,...
Subprime visualization
A sarcastic take on the housing market bubble, subprimes and their effects. [via fluidoblog] ...
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:...
Does your SNS have ERM?
Social networking meets the semantic web.define an entity and tag it as "user" and then define a relationship and tag it as "friend of". But we can also create entities tagged "brand",...
Expired online identity
Does the whole concept of online identity make any sense after its owner is passed out? Well, of course - as long as we consider authored content, as it's always been with analogic cultural and artistic manufacts...
My Name is E
As we sign up on different online services we create multiple profiles and enter various pieces of information can be combined in several ways, creating a multitude of possible identities. Different combinations...
Obituary: Fabio Metitieri
His last book, Il grande Inganno del web 2.0 (The big web 2.0 Deceit) was just published.I remember a few telephone conversations with him, following an interview for Espansione about Second Life. I also...
Serious games
I recently wrote about the Whosegame contest, in which users are requested to create a game on a specific subject (Learning by videogames, Become an eco-citizen, Fight against isolation). 11 games have...
Tribute
Not unlike visiting Jim Morrison's tomb at Pére Lachaise, but everyone has their own role models. ...