You have heard about spimes. They are a new class of objects, originally envisioned by Bruce Sterling, author and Wired columnist, who also invented the term by compressing ‘space’ and ‘time’. Spimes are aware of their environment, they know where they are, and when they are, and keep track of some parameter around them. Sensing, […]
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Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban “Strategic Marketing Evolves – The changing role of brands in the network age” Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated tools were
Dealipedia is launching today, aiming to apply wikinomics to the collection and mashing up of information about corporate deals, including financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and even bankruptcies. So many times there are announcements of interesting deals that are shrouded behind a ‘details were kept private’ veil. What Dealipedia is betting on, is that there
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I have been invited to hold a lesson at the California School of International Management‘s course on Strategic Marketing. The lesson will be delivered online, via Skype, and Second Life on the island of Lipari, on Wednesday, February 6, starting 2PM PST (11PM CET). If you would like to attend just let me know in
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The printed edition of the ‘Corriere della Sera‘ has an article today about the unintended side effects of the site filtering system that Vodafone put in place recently to supposedly protect minors from adult materials while browsing the web using the Vodafone Live! application suite. As reported in Italian by Stefano, the author of Quinta’s
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In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: “Real men don’t use mice”. This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but from the objective fact that
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I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the
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I created an experimental video channel using Mogulus, and, connections/firewalls permitting, there will be a live video stream from the “Italy Silicon Valley Experience” (pdf of the program) event today at 6PM CET, on top of live blogging. You can connect to davidorban.com/video right now to check if you can see the video, as I
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17.20 Chris Anderson is in Milan at a conference, organized by ‘The Ruling Companies’, and a bunch of bloggers have been invited to cover the event live, so here I am, sitting in the first row, and listening to what is being said. I am actually curious to see if there will be new nuggets,
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photo by benoutram ‘The Long Tail‘ is the title of a book by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and of an apparently new phenomenon which many of us following the online worlds have come to understand from Chris’s blog of the same name ‘The Long Tail’. Put succintly, the concept of the long tail refers
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