Open Source Banking
Axa Bank launched a forward-looking initiative aimed at gathering worldwide developers' creativity, offering 50,000€ for the most innovative retail banking application developed on the basis of...
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Bach on a Moebius strip
The geometrical beauty in J.S. Bach's opus, visualized. The Moebius strip is, simply put, a surface with just one side. A canon is a musical composition based on a melody, played along with one or...
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Tweetburger
Last week, the food giant McDonald launched a media campaigns on Twitter, inviting the public to share 140-letters-long stories about their experience with the restaurants, the food, the brand or whatever. After...
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The Wholly Family
A man came to Terry Gilliam's house in Naples with a big box of pasta and offered him to make a movie. The man worked for a pasta company, and the only conditions were that it was set in the city and nobody...
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State Of The Net is back!
After 4 years, in a wonderful and mostly undiscovered location, the State Of The Net conference will be back this year. Congratulations to Paolo Valdemarin, Beniamino Pagliaro and Sergio Maistrello. ...
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Fabbricare idee
Può l'innovazione nascere da un processo formale? "Vivi come un borghese, in modo da poter essere rivoluzionario quando scrivi." Tra i tanti aforismi attribuiti a Gustave Flaubert, questo è a mio avviso...
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The Calm After the (Brain)storm
Ever taken part in a brainstorming session? I enjoy both participating and facilitating, and I strongly believe that it is very important to always throw some ideas on the board, whatever is your role,...
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Idee contro la crisi
Il nuovo governo ha appena prestato giuramento e Monti ha dichiarato di aver consultato diverse parti sociali per definire le linee guida del programma di governo. Le consultazioni con le parti sociali,...
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Threats to democracy
Drawing a parallel with a hypothetical British default crisis, The Guardian's Jackie Ashley summarizes the recent developments in Italy as "a suspension of democracy" : David Cameron and...
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Minacce alla democrazia
Immaginando un analogo scenario per il Regno Unito, Jacke Ashley scrive sul Guardian un articolo in cui riassume i recenti sviluppi politici in Italia come "una sospensione della democrazia": David...
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Totò in the Silicon Valley
I am tired of getting emails and notifications with links to the "What if Steve Jobs were born in Naples" story. It's not that I am offended by criticism towards Italy or whatever. It is...