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A piano genius in Cagliari
Saturday evening, almost sunset. We (my wife an I) are in a rush to get to the Lyric Theatre in Cagliari before 7, when a concert of Giovanni Allevi is going to begin. It's the first time that I listen to his music (well, I'll discover that actually isn't, but this is what I belevied when I was sear ...
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Mobile BB with 3... easy and cheap. Maybe.
Today I badly needed Internet connection from home in London (as I'm going to badly need a mains to recharge my laptop battery now), so I decided to buy a mobile BB contract.The 3 offering seemed to be interesting... Just 10 pounds/month.BUT24 months contract (! I don't know what I'll be doing in 24 ...
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SIP call flows explained
Ok, my blogging activity is reaching 0...But this is interesting: the guys at TechInvite provide a detailed set of SIP call flows, with nice-to-see diagrams and message details.IMS call flows are also included.Check it out.
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Anno nuovo, vita nuova
"Anno nuovo, vita nuova" is an old Italian proverb which literally means "A new year, a new life". In this case it is appropriate for me and my wife, since I'm going to relocate from Cagliari, Italy to London.I met my friends and former colleagues last Thursday, for a "Goodbye party", and I want to ...
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Merry Christmas from... the Moon
In December, 1968 NASA sent for the first time a manned spacecraft into Lunar orbit: Apollo 8.In my opinion, this was one of the most important Apollo Missions, followed by Apollo 11 and Apollo 10 (obviously only Apollo 11, with the actual landing on the Moon became famous).The three-man crew (Borm ...
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The Unexpected winter
It's funny to note that yesterday Alec posted "Winter in Ottawa", pointing out what a real winter is. It's funny because yesterday, while crossing my beautiful and usually-sunny Sardinia, I've been stuck for 7 (seven - yes, seven) hours inside my car while outside there was a snow storm!Thanks to my ...
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Microblogging and RSS feeds: watch out for privacy flaws
If you know what microblogging is (Twitter, Jaiku, Hictu... never heard of?), you've probably noticed that each message flow has a RSS feed associated.For example, you can go in my personal page on Hictu: see the "subscribe rss" button? Well, in this case the subscription means that you'll read in y ...
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What Jaiku will represent for Google
After I watched two interviews by Phil Wolf to Jyri Engestrom, founder of Jaiku, I've found another really insightful article by Phil Wolf about how Jaiku will fit into Google.More than just talking about microblogging, Phil emphasizes the presence and real-time communication aspects.This article is ...
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Google People to be launched
Google People is going to be launched in the Q1 of 2008.If you are searching for someone, or trying to retrieve information about the life and personal story of someone you know or want to know, with Google People you'll find all you need.You could also search for something that person wrote in an a ...
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Google ______ Jaiku
I'm sure you can fill in the missing word in the title...So microblogging+presence isn't such a bad service to provide in Google's mind...The question is: how many dollars/user are they going to pay? In my opinion Jaiku has about 0,5M users... would the total be more or less than $50M?We'll see. In ...
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How to compare two Web2.0 services, and be wrong
As you may have noticed reading my blog, I'm involved with Hictu. Indeed, as Enrico realized, I consider myself its Dad.As any other dad, I desired Hictu, I planned it, I attended its birth, presented it to my friends and relatives, and I'm notifying all these people each time there are news: new fe ...
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Daily wrapup from Hictu, 25/9
It's been a while that I'm using Hictu to satisfy my need to share contents I read.Today I present a review of my activity. I hope you'll enjoy that reading and be willing to go deeper for some points.You can see the entire list of my posts here.1. Are Comparison Search Engines threatened by Google? ...
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Most influential bloggers... I'm missing something
Leo Babauta, in his NorthxEast, publishes the list of 50 most influential bloggers.I don't have clear in mind what is the method to evaluate this influence (but I suspect it's based on technorati ranks), but I admit I don't know anyone belonging to the first 10 positions... The first I know (but I d ...
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Puppets rule
Why are puppets so popular among videoposts on Hictu? I can't say... anyway they're funny.View this:
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Online journals: is AD going to replace subscriptions revenues?
This morning I've read the article by Jeremy Liew, commenting the Wall Street Journal analysis on ad revenues for online journals. I've been a little bit surprised to see that Jeremy caught the negative aspect: "News can't be an online only business"...The picture showing the ratio between ad revenu ...
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Nokia e51: the new solution for the office life
Nokia has presented its new model, the e51, specifically designed for business functionalities: telephony, email and messaging in mobility.The aspect I'm more interesting to is the availability of VoIP calls. In one of my previous posts I've described the setup procedure to configure a e61 (and N80 ...
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Firefox extensions: useful examples
Browsersphere reports a list of useful extensions for Internet browsers, citing among others one of my latest posts.The Firefox extension I was presenting is the Abbeyphone VoIP Extension, which transforms Firefox in a VoIP client, able to place and receive free IP calls and place cheap calls to lan ...
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Microblogging: a concrete way of promotion
Last July Stephanie Kang and Suzanne Vranica wrote an interesting article on the Wall Street Journal online, about the new frontiers of marketing through microblogging:Marketing through Twitter -- as with any new technology -- isn't a slam dunk. Sending marketing messages on the service could aliena ...
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The convergence of Social Networks and microblogging
As I wrote before in this blog I work for Hictu, so consider this as a full disclaimer :)However, last week I've found this post by TMS Republic, comparing 10 microblogging platforms (Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, MySay, Hictu, MoodMill, Frazr, IRateMyDay, Emotionr).Today Hictu has been released with a ne ...
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Looking for new business models applied to voice services
Alec Saunders, commenting a post by Gary Kim, discusses how the availability of voice inside many applications is actually changing the business model applied to more traditional voice services:The challenge for the voice service provider is in delivering value that can be monetized for more than a ...
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