Two words about Twitter

Are you willing to stay out the greatest world buzz revolution?

The sound of silence

Are you interested in threats your Freedom is subject to on the Internet?

Signs of life on Nokia planet

Will Nokia succeed to get back at being the design leader in smartphone market?

Interviewing Fabrizio Capobianco: an optimistic Italian

Fabrizio Capobianco is Funambol founder and CEO. For having created an Italian company and then made it the world leader in its industry, for managing the largest open source product in wireless and, most importantly, for its unstoppable optimism about the future of software and services in Italy, he’s an inspiration to many startupper (and wannabe) of the “Bel Paese” and worldwide.

In this interview he talks about Funambol, technology, and Italy. Many useful tips for startuppers

Supporting The Case Against Data Lock-in

A few days ago the Data Liberation Front, a team created by Google apparently to lower lock-in on data that its services generate on  users , has publicly clarified its mission (note: the DLF has been started in 2007, made

The society of objects

How social do you expect the objects will be one day? Would you allow machines and software to interact with you in a social manner?

Where is the Tablet market going?

I’m not, perhaps you know it, a big fan of Apple. Lately, however, it seems that Cupertino has reached again, as with the iPhone, the usual result: create a product, open a market, consolidate a large chunk of the customers

Un’analisi laica e pragmatica di Frontiers of Interaction 2010

Il 3 e il 4 Giugno, con mia grande soddisfazione ho partecipato a Frontiers Of Interaction 2010. Era la prima volta che partecipavo a questa interessantissima conferenza, giunta ormai alla sua sesta edizione. Nella mia immensa immodestia ho voluto condividere

Interviewing Richard Stallman: Freedom in the time of SaaS

Richard Stallman is one of the most revolutionary thinkers and activists of the twentieth century. Thanks to him we have things like GNU and free software movement. Meedabyte had the opportunity to publish an interview with him about the threats to personal freedom deriving from using what is commonly identified as SaaS.

All of us use SaaS every day but the contours of this phenomenon, which has so many obscure points for users, are rarely clear.

Emerges a clear picture: on one hand users, citizens, taxpayers, on the other huge economic interests. In the middle, the need for individuals to mobilize and be the first lawyers of their own Freedom.

Richard Stallman è uno dei pensatori più rivoluzionari e gli attivisti del ventesimo secolo.A lui dobbiamo cose come GNU e del movimento del software libero. Meedabyte avuto l’opportunità di pubblicare un’intervista con lui riguardo le minacce alla libertà personale derivanti dal Software as a Service.

Tutti noi usiamo SaaS ogni giorno, ma i contorni di questo fenomeno, che ha così tanti punti oscuri per gli utenti, raramente sono chiari.

Ne emerge un quadro chiaro: da un lato gli utenti, cittadini, contribuenti, dall’altro enormi interessi economici. Nel mezzo, la necessità per gli individui di mobilitarsi e di essere i primi gli avvocati della propria libertà.

The Internet of 2015: the chain of events that will shape the new Internet. – Internet del 2015: la catena di eventi che darà forma alla nuova Internet.

How will be the Internet of 2015? The question is difficult to answer. I think we should try to get to an idea of what will be the Internet in five years, through the analysis of the events chain that