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When I have started listening to ITconversations, and following more closely certain blogs, what I realized that you can very efficiently collect a lot of what you would personally experience by physically visiting a conference or an exhibition. NextFest 2005 was one of the exhibitions I would have wanted to attend, and seeing the great […]
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Solutions to important, complex problems often self selct through economic pressures, so it is natural that alternative energy sources become viable as the traditional ones price themselves out of the reach of their consumers. CNET News.com is reporting that Google founders have invested in
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After a few years the dream of MP3.com is back, and it even more important than before. www.MP3tunes.com offers DRM-free songs at a great price, and couples with a Linux-based media center called MP3beamer that lets you sync it to all your PCs or devices. Digital Restrictions Management, as founder Michael Robertson calls it, cripples
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Map24 has been my favorite online mapping solution, after I discovered them as they won two Webby Awards in 2004. The vector based java plugin, which works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox, makes it the smoothest solution I’ve seen. Now they teamed up with Google Europe, so that when you search for a city
Google Europe, and Map24 (and ViaMichelin) Read More »
Looking up the Netcraft records for *.google.com brings up a lot that deafaults to www.google.com or its equivalents. There are a few gems, like console.google.com, that make you feel you could control the Google Universe if only you had the right password, or if someone gave one to you (as there is an email link
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The release of the Flickr API has proved to be very fertile, and now has produced a gem: Mappr tries to interpret the tags of photos, to place them on the map of the US. Of course this should be immediately extended worldwide! Since you can look up other tags that are not geography related
Great mix of mapping and photos: Mappr! Read More »
I just came back from the launch event of Creative Commons Italy, and shot some (amazingly bad) photos of Lessig’s speech, which was very eloquent. Larry was a little late, as he just came in from his flight, and after he spoke, he had to endure three – four Italian language presentations! I couldn’t be
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John Battelle is asking for comments on his vision of a world with Perfect Search. Well, the world of the Perfect Search would not be interesting. Asimov was great in exploring in his “I Robot” short stories the shortcomings and unintended consequences of his own laws. I can much more easily imagine someone building a
Unbounded memetic landscape Read More »
I would be surpised if Asimov thought his laws could become the basis of the real science of AI or sentient robots. The fun of his short stories, and probably of writing them as well must have been been also coming from the quirks of the interactions of the laws with the real world, and how their
Fiction is not science Read More »
I was waiting for an opportunity to start playing with wikis, and Joi Ito’s blog gave me the start with his public Socialtext wiki, where I quickly created a page of my own. So far so good…
Playing with wikis Read More »
