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Archive for December, 2006

The year of the Widget

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Time put users and user generated contents on the cover as the person of the year. So what about next year?

Newsweek states 2007 will be year of extreme and decentralized personalization. The year of the Widget.

Widgets (also called badges, gadgets, etc) are simple self-contained atoms of content and functionality that you can cut and paste […]

Social Shopping: the current big thing?

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Social Shopping means leveraging social networking platforms to help costumers finding and buying products online.

Why wasting your precious limited time to scroll infinite lists of useless articles why your brother, your mom or your friends could improve your experience through their suggestions?

In other words, the idea is using friends and acquaintances to generate buzz and […]

Video Sharing Sites Spreading in Italy

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

While Italy remains among the worst countries in the european web penetration chart (19,8 milion users), Nielsen//NetRatings recently noticed how italians are heavy internet users with 17hours spent online each month (+32% in the last year) thanks to the increasing adoption of flat broadband lines. The neat effect is that the web is starting to […]

FIAT talking with its customers

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

This an exciting example in a still pretty flat landscape like the one in which most italian large companies are still moving, if you look at them from the perspective of their customers and their ability to be involved in the design of new products and services.

This is even more remarkable in a field that […]

Facetag at SWAP 2006

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

We are very proud to be among the posters that will be presented today in Pisa, at the prestigious 3th Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives Workshop (SWAP).

The SWAP is hosted at the Scuola Normale Superiore (probably one of the best faculties in Europe) and it aims to bring together researchers and participants interested in Semantic […]