Secular Christmas
If it were just a matter of belief, or faith, then I should not care about Christmas. And I am even less involved in the "decorated tree festivity" (as my wife calls the consummerism-induced...
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Facebook’s value (and a silly headline contest)
Valleywag reports post-crisis assessments of Facebook's value. One year ago, Microsoft invested $240 Million in Facebook and gained control of 1.6% of the Company. Arithmetically-wise, this sure means...
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Yes, ajò!
While I am not a fan of Italian Obamism (i.e. making reference to the Obama victory as a motivational resource for politics in Italy), Liberazione published yesterday a report about the situation with...
Friendfeed (amico dei mangimi)
Friendfeed added a bunch of translations (German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and simplified Chinese) to their interface, but left Italian out. Friendfeed is a sort of one-stop-shop social networking...
C 6 o c fai? – the slides
Slides from my presentation at the Trieste University earlier today. It has been an engaging meeting, with nice insights about the social nature of networks - way before the rise of the web - and a great...
C 6 o c fai? (Is it you, or are you faking it?)
I'm at the Trieste University today, speaking about digital identities and web 2.0 (and my book-in-progress, temporarily titled "Social Networks and the Babel Dictionary") [I usually make last-minute...
Transition to 2.0
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...
Veggie Thanksgiving
Do not expect me to become a vegetarian, but I have to acknowledge that this is cleverly done - and asking supporters to make pressure on Majesco to develop a vegetarian version of "cooking mama"...
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...
Facebook survey
Nòva24 is running a research initiative, based on the results of a survey about the Facebook phenomenon. Whether you are a Facebook user or not, take the survey! My answers: Are you a Facebook user? [yes] To...
Prediction markets – US election / 2
Being a pessimist, there are times when I love to be proven wrong. ...