In the last few days the new Italian portal www.italia.it has been presented to the press.
A few hours later a lot of blog posts have begun to appear with a lot of criticism.
I wont link anything here but a quick technorati search will help you find most of these posts.
I basically agree on most of [...]

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I have been using Twitter for quite a time in the past, and I liked it.
From a couple of weeks I have dropped Twitter and I have jumped into Jaiku.
I have written in the past that I think that quite all applications should be built around the Contact list since it’s a revenue generator by [...]

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As the motto of the International Exposition held in Chicago in 1933 boldly proclaimed, “Science Finds — Industry Applies — Man Conforms.”
Probably we are all sons of that period, all the information collected in years and years of study and experiments are now collapsed into the net, and we are the one that use all [...]

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Sometimes innovation manifests itself in strange ways.
I have to say that my friend and colleague Frangino (you can read his blogs here and here) pulled another rabbit out of his hat.
Most of us did not attend the 3GSM World Congress this year, and Frangino came out with a 3GSM virtual report collecting informations from blogs [...]

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It really seems that all operators are signing agreements with all the major internet players. 3 is launching services with MSN, Yahoo, Google and Skype, Vodafone with YouTube and MySpace.
Same thing seems to be happening with handset vendors. Just look at the last Nokia press release announcing an agreement with YouTube while, historically, they already [...]

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Yesterday I talked about how User Generated Content will fit in the mobile ecosystem.
Today I would like to go a little bit further with some considerations.
It’s perfectly true that you may be much more interested in content generated by your friends than in content generated by unknown people. I also said that the Contacts application [...]

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For several reasons I will not be attending the 3GSM World Congress this year.
From the reports that I am reading from the Internet there is great focus on Media and Internet companies. Yahoo, Disney, MTV have their own booth at 3GSM and all the recent press releases talk about these companies and their initiatives with [...]

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I started thinking to one good point for discussion that sounds like “which is the best reward for an innovator?” Does it arrive at the end of a good job? In order to find the proper answer let’s try to define a good innovator profile, understand him and then pay the bill. How to recognize [...]

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Yesterday night I had a dinner out with a friend. He was a former research fellow at Olivetti in the shining days of that company.
Obviously we ended up talking about innovation in mobile phones and I shared some of my personal views on the subject. All these wonderful web 2.0 applications that are coming to [...]

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Java ME CLDC/MIDP, the choice for mobile widget platforms
This post show an interesting point of view. Actually something I was thinking of in last few weeks. Worth a read.
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Mobile phones, not so limited after all…
Interesting comparison between high end phone and a pc. Personally I think the mobile phone is missing one important [...]

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If you work in an innovation team or you do some kind of research and development, chances to have direct contact with Senior Managers is quite high.
There is something you can easily fall in temptation with. After some time you will know pretty much everything of your Senior Managers. What they like and what they [...]

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