January 2008
116 posts
This Year’s Super Bowl Ads to Be Gentle and Sweet... →
“Wish Twitter would update site and fix bugs more than update its error message...”
– Twitter / Amanda Mooney: Wish Twitter would update s…
Geek girls of the world: Sarah Meyer
Here is the second name for the Geek girls of the world series: Sarah Meyer. She’s a cute, young geek girl, an independent video journalist and tough I’ve been reading her - and watching her videos, of course - for a short time, I’m really impressed by Sarah. Here follows a quote from her about page: […] I started attending Supper Happy Dev House last year because I...
Watchtommaso: “How to make people happy with web 2.0 technology” Tara Hunt.
Twitter Down For the Debates; Twitter Forces My... →
newsroom: Twitter’s useful for keeping tabs on breaking news — everyone can liveblog at once. So why does it always go down at the worst time? The problem here is that every time Twitter is about to be at its most useful, it disappears on me. I’m starting to understand what it must be like to be friends with Clark Kent - except there is no Superman swooping in to save Twitter in times of...
Tumblr new themes: where are they?
The first time I Logged in Tumblr 3.0 it showed me wonderful new themes. It showed me them once only. Where are they? I’ll give you a reply as soon as I find it! :)
WatchAs you can see you don’t need to be a big communication agency to produce a fake video like this. :) via - peterwknox
Your favourite microblogging platform. Poll.
List your favourite microblogging and possibly leave a line as I do: Tumblr - I use it almost as a blog. I love it. Pownce - Has all the features I need Twitter - 140 characters are not enough for me and it lacks of many other functions Meemi - I spent not enough time on it, it may be better than twitter Jaiku - Waiting for a “google impact” on it what else? Now it’s up to you....
hellotxt will change the way micrblogging is
Go give a look We’ll talk about it in the next future. Stay tuned. Your feedback is appreciated.
Discovering hellotxt.com
You can post simoultanously on twitter, pownce, meemi, jaiku and others. Amazing. hellotxt.com Fabrizio made a really good job.
“These tools are tremendously exciting - whether you’re a lone blogger, a...”
– BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Mobile video at Davos BBC to use video streaming from mobiles to report on events.
“I’ve decided to delete the “Understanding art for geeks” set from both Flickr...”
– Paul The Wine Guy - I’m not having fun anymore He’s not having fun, neither us. Paul don’t says it clearly, but I’m almost sure it is a copyright matter. I hope he’s wrong and will change is mind soon. Anyway Italian laws about copyright are shitty.
“journalists and their editors are having to quickly adapt how they deliver the...”
– Urbanisms - Death to Print News? We’re more than three, Don. ;)
“With video-blogs, blogs, micro-blogs and live-blogging the traditional press...”
– Italian journalists most of the times say [and write] that bloggers are unreliable, inaccurate, and even worst. Bloggers think what Sarah states in this quote, but, many times I think they don’t have courage enough to say it frankly. Even because, sometime they don’t want to disappoint...
“It’s called Meemi (which oddly has nothing to do with US-based iMeem) Italy’s...”
– Hey, Enrico, livejamie.com noted the good job you’ve done with meemi! :-)
Wired: "Web Developer Gives Modern Art a Geeky... →
Good job, Paul The Wine Guy. [via — webgol — maisuccesso]
“Pownce is constantly compared to Twitter, another microblogging tool. Do you...”
– TD Hendengren interview to Leah Culver, Pownce cofounder and developer. Leah outlines the difference between Pownce and Twitter, as reported here in the quote, and may other interesting informations about Pownce’s future. The Pownce Developer: Interviewing Leah Culver | BloggerTalks
Understanding web2.0 for newspapers →
Paul the wine guy is the author of this series called Understanding art for Geeks. Il Corriere della Sera one of the most important Italian newspapers talks about this series as masterpieces, but they forget to mention the author. Please reblog to let them know they just should! — via phonkmeister
Resistance [to the Eeepc] is futile
I have it! The title is a tribute to Suzukimaruti. You’re right man!
“The Democratic presidential candidate will announce those “campaign promises”...”
– The Late Show with Barack Obama - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog I think is a good thing that politicians are able to joke on themselves. Probably, at the other side of the Ocean they don’t really know what it is “par condicio” (*). :-\ (*) It’s somewhat stupid...
“When you give designers complete freedom, they tend to give it right back”
– Pownce : Note From paulsahner
“So, let me figure this out: Digg changed its algorithm because a group of users...”
– The quote is Jeremy’s comment to the post. In Italy we say:“all the world is a small town” Do you figure out what does it mean? Digg: An open letter to Digg from top Digg users
Click to clean your screen →
via Graham & webmarc — david — danielha
The Crunchies | Andrew Mager →
Nice shots from Andrew’s Crunchies night.
“More feature-rich than other microblogs, Pownce also has comments. On top of...”
– Here is my public timeline on Pownce: http://pownce.com/markingegno/ feel free to add me as a friend. And here I ame on twitter: http://twitter.com/markingegno Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Pownce, and Yappd Reviews - Reviews by PC Magazine
Geek Girls of the world - Julia Roy
Since January ‘08 I’ve been surfing around the web looking for interesting sites and bloggers out of Italy. I don’t know whether I’ve been lucky or what, but until now I met a certain number of smart geek girls, more than I expected. That’s why I decided to start this series: Geek Girls of the world. The first post of the series if for Julia Roy. I found really...
Bill Gates when asked about them Mac ads. (from...
New York Times invests on Wordpress
the company behind Wordpress has landed $29-million in financing, including an investment from none other than the New York Times. Via - mathewingram.com
