Today, Vittorio Loreto (PIL Group, Physics Department of La Sapienza University) invited me to partecipate to the kick-off meeting of an innovative research project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the FET proactive initiative Simulating Emergent Properties in Complex Systems.

The TAGora project aims to leverage online social systems to […]

The point is that we have early examples of advanced folksonomies usage but the better tools will smoothly mix social tagging, taxonomies and faceted classification in a trasparent way for final users to change the way we access information online.

In a time of attention scarcity and information overload, letting the right users find the right content could do the difference between a successfull initiave and a miserable failure.

You can hear a lot of voices talking about the architecture of participation, the information overload, the amateurization of the masses, the strategical value of user generated content, the long tail model.

Ok, but who is doing money leveraging these ideas? How traditional media companies are charging their business models as a response of the web […]