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2013-05-23 11:29:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

So, basically, this service is good as long as you stay out of the police\governments\censors radar, right?

While it could be understandable if we think of criminal use of this encryption, how can they separate the criminals from the political activists under censorship? This last one could've been the real great use of the service, but this way it's totally useless...

So bad.

#censorship  

2013-05-23 11:27:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

That's a big news!
As a former fan fiction writer (and reader, of course) I'm happy and really interested in it.

I think of a Shoebox project in Kindle format, for example...

#amazon   #fanfiction  

2013-05-23 11:15:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well, this should've been a real surprise for the poor man.
He thought there were ghosts, and instead he found his woman with his son. 

Bazinga!

2013-05-22 12:12:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

It's nice to read such stories... :-)

2013-05-15 12:04:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Lol, this 5G is really funny... 2 km in open space? Useful, really useful!

#samsung   #5g  

2013-05-15 12:00:56 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nice, job, policemen, nice job...

2013-05-11 17:37:30 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

So... more bike lanes everywhere, please!

2013-05-11 13:35:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Woah! I'd love to see it!

But I fear a chepear system than Google's one might be also a less safe one...

2013-05-07 11:12:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I think that this tax, however it will end, will be really important for the future of e-commerce.

If it pass, it may cause a chain reaction in all the web, changing the taxation from the place where the store is located to the place where is the customer. (And there will be an explosion of new services for man in the middle customers)
If it fail, e-stores will gain more power from this sentence and the e-commerce will move strongly toward those countries with the best taxation systems.

2013-05-07 10:51:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

First thought: rats are going to leave the ship

Second thought: and what if it should be related to the iTV?

2013-05-06 20:54:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today at work we were just talking about how #stonesoft  was one of the best player in the #firewall  market right now... 

2013-05-06 10:49:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

That's so strange... so, TOR just said that publishing e-books without DRM has brought no harm to their business.

Now, let's see what the DRM lovers will reply to this objective data from one big publisher...

2013-05-06 10:45:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

We just found out where #dilbert  works... in Yahoo!! 

2013-05-04 05:39:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I was almost forgetting today's the fourth day of may.

So... have a nice #maythefourthbewithyou  day!

2013-05-03 21:24:26 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price

This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.
I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours).
I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass.
I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.

Here's my review after having Google Glass for two weeks:

1. I will never live a day of my life from now on without it (or a competitor). It's that significant. 
2. The success of this totally depends on price. Each audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would buy this?" As the price got down to $200 literally every hand went up. At $500 a few hands went up. This was consistent, whether talking with students, or more mainstream, older audiences.
3. Nearly everyone had an emotional outburst of "wow" or... more »

2013-05-03 11:11:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm in awe... good luck, guys!!
Give us our first digital lifeform ;)

#openworm  

2013-05-03 11:06:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

That's not good... 

#guatemala  
#stateofsiege  
#canada  

2013-04-16 11:43:49 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Here we go, Italy... :(

2013-04-05 11:34:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An interesting post about the digital #coldwar  

2013-04-02 05:06:44 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I like it, a slightly different way of doing e-commerce, one that could save the final resellers putting them at the core, leaving them freedom for their offers, how to show their products... nice, really nice!
I want to find out something else about them.

2013-04-01 06:11:12 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

When I read of #grrmartin  planning to change #asongoficeandfire  in three trilogies I got a bit down.
And I wrote about it, too, starting some sort of open letter, one last chance for the writer to take me attached to Westeros, before totally lose me.

Then I read one post about #magneto  celebrating the marriage of #professorx  in real life, but I didn't pay too much attention.

And only when I read of the new project for two or three films about #elric  by Moorcock, from the makers of #lotr , I remembered what kind of day it's today.

April, the first. Fishes everywhere.
Given it's a holiday I kinda forgot it, and I totally fell for the #grrmartin  post.
But Elric? My Duke? Nah, him on the big screen... nah, too unbelievable.

So, for today I'll stop looking to any news website.

Have a nice day guys (hopingtoday... more »

2013-03-31 09:25:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Just watched last #doctorwho  episode. 
Nice! The discussion about Oswin, the Doctor, the new villain and all the misteries is here: https://plus.google.com/105894741658872319371/posts/HvR1UJsu7Tz

2013-03-31 09:24:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Don't be a monk... monks are not cool

#doctorwho  

2013-03-29 06:03:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here we have an interview with #otischandler   and #russgrandinetti , the first CEO of #goodreads  and the latter VP of Kindle Content, about the acquisition of Goodreads by Amazon.

The questions were simple: will Goodreads still be a neutral hub? Will it remain free or will it evolve in an extension of Amazon?

The answers were not so clear.
Grandinetti's ones can be summarized in "first do no harm, then we'll see how to change things slowly".
Chandler's ones are "we hope nothing change, mostly. But we'll see"

2013-03-28 20:29:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow, this is a big hit.

I love #goodreads  and I admire #amazon , so I'm happy for them.
But I fear that now Goodreads will lose a big portion of its appeal, being owned by one publisher: last summer there were topics about how to handle negative reviews, attacks from trolls, hired reviews. Now I fear the policy will be totally author-oriented...

2013-03-28 20:12:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is a really good piece about the last #internetwar  that, as it was said, threatened the whole Internet.
Just, it wasn't so threatening... it looks rather like a great move from a great vendor, who was able to use in his favour one big attack against its company.

2013-03-28 20:10:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I knew it... Asimov deceived us! :

2013-03-27 11:51:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

And here we go, #androidmalware !

2013-03-27 11:47:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Ok, Java nowadays it's even more troubled than I knew...

2013-03-27 11:45:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So much for privacy...

2013-03-26 11:58:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nice!
The geek squad!

2013-03-21 12:55:21 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

And on the second day of #spring , finally... the spring!! 

(Well, starting tomorrow we'll get again clouds, rain and so on... but for one day it's nice to have the weather we should have)

2013-03-21 12:48:42 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

This looks interesting. Really, really interesting...

2013-03-20 12:49:16 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And today spring should've begun... right now it's raining. Huzzah! :(

#spring2013  

2013-03-20 12:00:55 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

And then this happened.

#SailorMercury  

2013-03-20 07:17:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

#bigbangtheory loves #doctorwho

2013-03-20 06:44:25 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Nice, really nice post wrote by some once-bullied-guy who, at forty, overcome his fears and challenged himself.
With parallels with Bruce Wayne, too!!

2013-03-20 06:33:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is really interesting... a great research by this unnamed man (or woman). It's not a surprise that many devices still have their default passwords, but to know how many those unprotected devices are, well, this makes you think...

2013-03-19 20:36:35 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The second episode!

Prof. Littlefinger... and Theon & Robb, besties :-D

#gameofthrones
#schoolofthrones

2013-03-17 12:04:12 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Beware, Westeros High... Prom night is coming!

Who'll be the Prom King? Stannis the library boy? His brother Renly, with his best party ever? Or Joffrey, with his new queen Sansa?
Or Daenerys, who wants to conquer the school for preventing its destruction because of the prom night?

Nice :)

#gameofthrones  

2013-03-17 06:53:05 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The angel of competence.... I understand, now! I understand everything now!! :-D

2013-03-17 06:50:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The beast.... I wanna see this one asap!!!

#gameofthrones

2013-03-17 06:32:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

And I'm one of them.
I shall say it's kinda nice and it reminds dear old #googlereader thanks to its usage of #googleapp

We can login, so, with our reader's credentials and we'll find all of our feeds.
And when Reader'll die, they'll have our datas cloned in a new server.

My only doubt it's if they'll store our passwords (weakening them) or if they'll keep relying on Google Apps for allowing our logimn.
I hope for the second one, but the best option would be to allow us to switch (with all our feeds) to the normal login from the "reader user".


Anyway, it looks really a nice new reader, even if they should work a little more on the usability, I think

2013-03-14 11:49:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Most of my days are irrational.

2013-03-14 05:53:30 (14 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google never made me feel like the product.  Until today.
I would have paid a subscription price for Google Reader to keep from feeling this way.

The death of Google Reader reveals a problem of the modern Internet that many of us likely have in the back of our heads but are afraid to let surface: We are all participants in a user driven Internet, but we are still just the users, nothing more. No matter how much work we put in to optimize our online presences, our tools and our experiences, we are still at mercy of big companies controlling the platforms we operate on. When they don’t like what’s happening, even if we do, they can make whatever call they want. And Thursday night, Google made theirs.

#SaveGoogleReader   #Reader  

2013-03-13 07:20:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

This is pure genius...

2013-03-10 10:41:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This one reminds me of what happened in S. Francisco... :-D

2013-03-02 06:23:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Yeah, that's how it usually goes... :D

Good saturday, #plussers  

2013-02-27 12:52:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow, this one llooks really, really cool!
And so useful, in some countries...

2013-02-26 12:36:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Nice piece about the new age of cyber wars... #cyberwar   #cyberwarfare