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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...