Archive for the tag 'innovation'

Mar 18 2010

It’s all about Contacts: who do you know?

Published by Stef under business, community, eng, funambol

When it comes to doing anything, finding a job, an apartment or a used car, what counts most is who you know. In the old times it was the size of your rolodex, now it’s the size of you digital addressbook. Being so powerful, it’s no wonder that everybody out there wants it: Facebook, Plaxo, [...]

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Jan 30 2010

Six comments worth reading about iPad

Published by Stef under business

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 by innovation and by the physicality of objects I suggest you to read Apple iPad’s Product [...]

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Jan 08 2010

Il miraggio del brevetto comunitario

Published by Stef under business, it

Stamattina ho trovato nella mia casella di posta un messaggio da una persona che cerca informazioni riguardo la brevettabilità delle idee. La domanda in particolare mi ha colpito, come sempre:
se ho ben capito le idee non sono brevettabili e quindi [...] chiunque può rivedere la mia idea e ricopiarla con un altro marchio?
Mi colpisce sempre [...]

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Sep 16 2009

Non-profit groups are slow to change

Published by Stef under community

A very good read and something I have seen happen many times with the non-profit groups I worked with:
If your non-profit isn’t acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or featured on Digg, then you’re failing in your duty to make change.
via Seth’s Blog: The problem [...]

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Oct 17 2008

How Apple will dramatically increase revenues

Published by Stef under business, eng

My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year:
It’s not (only) the cool design or the (un)cool software: it’s mainly the reduced (~60%) bill of material you see in the picture (compare [...]

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Jun 28 2008

Goodbye uncle Bill

Published by Stef under business, eng

As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, BBC looks at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded.
BBC NEWS | Technology | The hits and misses of Microsoft
Uncle Bill left a Microsoft not having beaten the Free Software movement and fighting to conquer new markets, [...]

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May 21 2008

The next step in desktop innovation

Published by Stef under eng, misc

A better filesystem and a better user interface. Haiku filesystem goes in the right direction (read the interview to Kevin Musick, BeServed author). I happily read als that the Sugar UI will be developed also for other hardware that is not OLPC, which is good. I had the chance to play with a XO [...]

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Apr 22 2008

Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back

Published by Stef under business

Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’  As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’  I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source,” as Ozzie said.
Roberto wrote a [...]

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Mar 10 2008

Microsoft is changing focus, will it change attitude?

Published by Stef under business, eng

I’ve placed a bet that Microsoft will change radically its business model when Gates will leave his chair to Ray Ozzie, so I was trying to get a clue from Ozzie’s speech at the MIX last week. I wasn’t too impressed by his keynote, though, it was too much in the old known ‘corporate [...]

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Mar 06 2008

An Italian startup wants to go beyond desktop metaphor

Published by Stef under business, eng

I think that a document is anything that I save on my computer, anything that ‘documents’ my actions and my life. So bookmarks, images and text files, maps, email messages, calendar entries are all documents to me.’  Saving these digital documents’  in folders as one would in an office phisical-space-cabinet is too limiting.’  What if [...]

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