This is a period of great news for me. Among these changes, I’m happy to announce a new exciting research project on which I’m working together with Luca Rosati and Andrea Resmini.

Starting from my thoughts on tagging ecologies and on the evolution of collaborative tagging towards a more semantical and richer direction, we have […]

While there are a bunch of wonderful posts out there that explain web 2.0 principles and ideas (see Tim O’Reilly and Robin Good ones for example) very well, new startups and services come out everyday in varied flavours and with deeply different features until the point to which saying what is web 2.0 and what […]

Reading the news today, I learn about a new social bookmarking manager. It’s called Taggly and the really important point for me is that it’s completly italian. This is the second good signal coming from Italy (more on this on the TAGora project) and I’m glad to see that here too, something is moving.

I won’t […]

I’m happy to learn about a very appealing workshop that will be host inside the SIGIR, the ACM annual Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval and Search, this summer in Seattle (August 6-11).

Faceted search is often considered an improved combination of the old navigational and search based paradigms, becoming a recurring interaction […]