“You are what you do”
Verify identity by checking things that have been done by a user, just like "aren't you the one who were waiting in line with me for a taxi yesterday at the station? we discussed the NBA season,...
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Facebook demographics – updated
Some time ago, I linked a nice tool that provided custom-made demographic reports about Facebook users, updated in real time. I discovered that the tool does not work anymore, so here is a link to a site...
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Aesthetics in games
I'm always eager to catch any glimpse of evolution towards the fulfillment of a long-term prediction of mine - that videogames, in a foreseeable future, will become an established and recognized form of...
Proximity bubble
Nokia bought Dopplr, so what? I didn't even spend much time updating my dopplr profile with dates and destinations of my travels, so why bother? Yet, I feel there's something relevant in it -...
Nation Brands?
Despite all the controversy and turmoil in political life, Italy still has a very strong "national brand image".The Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index measures national reputation - as perceived...
Crowsourcing!
It's not a typo... When seeing birds on a wire, I always wonder what sort of tune they'd compose. Jarbas Agnelli, musician and movie director, did the thing for good. [via Open Culture] ...
Personalized artwork
Use a section of your online identity to obtain a personalized artwork, centered around the way the web sees you (or, to be more precise, your name and surname): have a look at Personas, a component of...
Twitterdämmerung
One month to create an Opera, libretto and musical score, and perform it - starting from just an opening scene:One morning, very early, a man and a woman were standing, arm-in-arm, in London’s Covent...
Singing eBook
My original stance about eBooks was that it might be a great way to save us from the burden of useless paper, so welcome electronically distributed newspapers: but please don't mess with the relationship...
Cutthroat Capitalism – the game
For those who have read Cutthroat Capitalism - an economic analysis of the Somali piracy business model on the last Wired issue (on the Italian edition as well), a nice complement can be found on the...
Epidemik, the contagious Expo
A collaborative multiplayer simulation game, played by walking around the playground and trying to survive an epidemic - one out of five scenarios, I happened to play the Nice 2015 (Chikungunya fever,...