Commodities

Commodization: this term indicates that phenomenon through which the increasing availability or the reduced degree of differentiation of a certain kind of product (service or job) transforms it into undifferentiated goods (the so called commodity), easily available. When a product (or your job) becomes a commodity, its market value goes down and down, and it […]

Innovation in politics

This morning I was driving to the office and was listening to a radio program talkiing about politics. Basically they were saying that politicians in Italy are among the oldest ones in the world. That is true. You can simply have a look at Senato della Repubblica or at the Camera dei Deputati web site […]

italia.it and frustration in innovation

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 […]

Addicted to Jaiku

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 […]

Change your Mind

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 […]

Virtual reports and innovation

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 […]

The Internet in your phone

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 […]

Friends Generated Content. What's next?

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 […]

Friends generated content

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 […]

The Innovator and The Reward

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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