Monthly Archives: January 2010

Things I said on 2010-01-31

#NYT The public is better served if copyrights have a reasonable limit. Sherlock Holmes should belong to us all right now http://is.gd/6ZiHX # #Trenitalia mi ha rimborsato al 100% dopo un mese per il non-viaggio prima di Natale, e senza … Continue reading

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Six comments worth reading about iPad

Saturday morning is the best day to read more in depth analysis. I collected six articles that amused me, largely from the HBR blogs (one of the best source of food for thoughts, IMHO). If you, like me, are fascinated … Continue reading

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Il Corriere della Sera attacca ancora Google

Torna Mucchetti, il giornalista castiga-google del Corriere della Sera, che mischia notizie con un articolo che parte dalla relazione del AGCom per tornare a chiedere  di castigare Google. Il problema sarebbe che Google fattura per pubblicità più delle concessionarie degli … Continue reading

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iPad DRM endangers our rights

The Free Software Foundation guys are ready to remind us the real threat that iPad furthers: The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for … Continue reading

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This is why i think iPad is revolutionary

I’m following the iPad presentation but until I saw this I wasn’t impressed This makes the iPad a totally new device and suddenly makes OS X and GNU/Linux and Windows well … obsolete. To me this looks like Apple finally … Continue reading

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Things I said on 2010-01-24

A volte ho l'impressione che #brunetta non abbia proprio un cazzo da fare: ma è necessaria una legge per i bamboccioni? http://is.gd/6rwHz # Essere governato da chi pretende di normare minuziosamente decisioni e comportamenti personali dei cittadini fa ribrezzo http://is.gd/6rwHz … Continue reading

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Things I said on 2010-01-17

♺ @om: Location-based ads will become mainstream as advertising and the mobile web become location-aware. http://bit.ly/5t5i1A in reply to om # California state gov has officially declared that it’s okay to use open source software inside the California gov http://is.gd/651wK … Continue reading

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Come vincere la burocrazia italiana

In realtà il titolo è ottimistico: con la burocrazia non si vince mai, al massimo si pareggia. Negli ultimi mesi ho avuto modo di frequentare alcune pubbliche amministrazioni italiane e ho ricavato delle lezioni importanti su come ottenere ciò di … Continue reading

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How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)

I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac … Continue reading

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Why that thing on Nexus One?

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom … Continue reading

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