Open source business
I've been recently notified of this peculiar poll: But, most of all, what could "open source insurance" possibly be? ...
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Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games
The Italian blogosphere is bursting with reactions to the developments in Tibet, between competent and passionate analysis (Orientalia4all is covering the story in a series of posts beginning here) and...
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New route for Second Life?
Philip Rosedale, Chief Executive Officer of Linden Lab (the company behind Second Life), announced today that the Company has begun to search for his replacement. First reactions [on Reuters] are mostly...
Paul The Wine Guy is back
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Ground Control to Major Tom’s avatar
When speaking of virtual worlds, a lot of emphasis falls upon the way the 3D objects (humans, houses...) are represented and can interact with one another. But I believe that one major reason for skepticism...
Divination and web 2.0
I wonder if Google's business model, so heavily relying on targeted advertising, is really delivering its promise. Adwords, from a specific perspective, can be seen as the service that fuels the whole...
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...
Update: park-killer decree retired
Maybe it is not just because of the blog chain initiative - and the issue has received additional coverage on newspapers. But what's important, the decree has been retired on Tuesday morning. ...
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...
Miserabili.
Last saturday I spent 3 hours in a theatre, hypnotized by Marco Paolini. "Miserabili. Io e Margaret Thatcher", his last show, is an attempt to understand the roots of the modifications experienced...
Participatory democracy
I have read on Stefano Quintarelli's blog about the Wikidemocracy initiative: WD is the first experiment in the world to write the parties' programs bottom-up. It is still under development and focused...