UX Conference 2010

Last year I had the opportunity to give a speech at the User Experience Conference in Lugano.

The User Conference Conference is an event produced by Luca Mascaro and the great guys at Sketchin. It is definitely a fantastic event if you are into User Experience.

If you are not into User Experience that conference will then be even more valuable to you, and I will tell you why.

If you know me you know that I have a very technical background even if in the last five years I have been running the product development team in H3G, an Italian mobile network operator. I can tell you that in the early stage of my profession, back in 1991, I was pretty much sure that everything was sitting in bit and bytes of products and services.
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My Bonsai Is Texting Me!

June 15, 2010

This is the presentation I gave at the Marcus Evans conference on the future of Mobile Messaging. The conference title was "Next generation mobile messaging". The main messages I want to transfer is The Internet of Things is becoming a reality. Not only humans can send messages. (Social) Application can send messages. Objects can send [...]

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Playing With A Mini Led Panel

May 13, 2010
Mini Led Panel

During one of my trips to China I found some Mini Led Panel in a shop. They are mini led displays that are able to scroll up to 5 five 250 characters messages. They come with a USB cable and some Windows software that allows you to program them. I actually bought two of them [...]

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Stimulating A New Generation Of Mobile Internet Applications

April 26, 2010

This is the presentation I gave a couple of weeks ago at the "Mobile Network Applications, Openness and Web Innovation" conference in Amsterdam. I had the opportunity to meet great people and was fun. Enjoy and drop me a line if you need to know more about it.   Stimulating a new generation of mobile [...]

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Did You Ever Meet A Bozo?

March 24, 2010

Too funny not to share!  A great speech from Guy Kawasaki.

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5 Reasons Not To Buy An Embedded 3G Tablet

March 11, 2010
Novatel MiFi 2532

If I had to put my money on a tablet device, I think I would not buy a 3G embedded device, but I would go for a WiFi only device. Sure, I will need some sort of mobile broadband connectivity and for that reason I think I would put on the tablet side a MiFi [...]

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A Consideration On Tablet Usability

March 9, 2010
Apple iPad

During the recent Academy Awards Oscar Night Apple broadcasted a commercial on the upcoming iPad. The first thing that you will notice in the video is that the device and the User interface looks great. You will see some nice activity performed by those guys and you may definitely fall in love with the device [...]

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Apple May Reject All Auto Generated Applications In AppStore

March 8, 2010
iPhone

So it seems that Apple is going to reject all those applications that are built using an application generator. I have written on the subject in the past and I found it a fantastic idea, and I still think that is the case. Jason Kincaid of Techcrunch (via iPhoneHacks.com) says that: Apple doesn’t want people [...]

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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal. Apple Sues HTC.

March 4, 2010
Apple iPhone - HTC Desire

At the end of the day Apple sued an Android mobile phone manufacturer. HTC, but you will have heard that for sure. On March 2nd, 2010 Apple filed a lawsuit concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware. This is what the offiicial Press Release from Apple was stating. [...]

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7 Features Of The Perfect Social Networking Desktop Client

February 24, 2010
Tweetie Mac OS X Desktop Client

In the I have tested pretty much any Social Networking dektop client application out there, but I have never been able to find the perfect solution to my needs. As a compromise I ended up using Tweetie to manage Twitter, Thwirl for FriendFeed and a few tabs in the browser for other things like Facebook [...]

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Nexus One – The Story On YouTube

February 10, 2010

In the past few days I have seen a lot of post on the YouTube channel describing the making of the Nexus one. Since today Google has posted 5 videos: Concept and Design Display and 3D Framework Testing Manufacturing Day One Here is the link to the YouTube channel: GoogleNexusOne Here is the first video [...]

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Is Apple The New SPECTRE In Technology?

February 4, 2010
Apple iPad

Do you remember SPECTRE in those James Bond movies and novels? SPECTRE stands for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. Have a look at the Wikipedia article about SPECTRE: It should be noted that the goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice.. and more Organizational discipline is [...]

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It’s A Technology War (No More!)

January 25, 2010
Amazon Kindle

The recent article “Amazon invites developers to come up with Apps for Kindle” led me to some more considerations on the rumored Apple tablet. Let’s start with a quick recap of what Amazon announced last Thursday: The Kindle Development Kit enables developers to build active content that leverages Kindle’s unique combination of seamless and invisible [...]

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Turn Your Blog And Twitter Into An iPhone Application

January 21, 2010
MotherApp

As you may have noticed there are lot of companies launching dedicated iPhone applications for their businesses. Audi, FCBmobile, CocaCola, just to name afew. Wouldn’t it be a great idea to build an iPhone application being able to deliver the content of your blog or twitter account? Sure it may be. Well, in order to do [...]

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