Dealipedia is launching today, aiming to apply wikinomics to the collection and mashing up of information about corporate deals, including financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and even bankruptcies. So many times there are announcements of interesting deals that are shrouded behind a ‘details were kept private’ veil. What Dealipedia is betting on, is that there […]
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I have been invited to hold a lesson at the California School of International Management‘s course on Strategic Marketing. The lesson will be delivered online, via Skype, and Second Life on the island of Lipari, on Wednesday, February 6, starting 2PM PST (11PM CET). If you would like to attend just let me know in
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The printed edition of the ‘Corriere della Sera‘ has an article today about the unintended side effects of the site filtering system that Vodafone put in place recently to supposedly protect minors from adult materials while browsing the web using the Vodafone Live! application suite. As reported in Italian by Stefano, the author of Quinta’s
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In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: “Real men don’t use mice”. This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but from the objective fact that
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“What is the question that I should be asking?”™ That is my favorite question, as also printed, slogan-like, on my business card. “What is the question that I should be asking?” is open ended, self-referential, and ju-jitsu-like in putting the person you are talking to in a position that must mimic yours. A facilitator for
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The changes that we observe around us are accelerating, and in a positive feedback loop the successive cycles feed on the previous ones’ effects. The source of these changes is technology, as application of the increased knowledge we have of the world around us. As individuals, and as societies we have demonstrated to be very
Your balance in times of extreme change – the opinion of the Dalai Lama Read More »
I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the
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I created an experimental video channel using Mogulus, and, connections/firewalls permitting, there will be a live video stream from the “Italy Silicon Valley Experience” (pdf of the program) event today at 6PM CET, on top of live blogging. You can connect to davidorban.com/video right now to check if you can see the video, as I
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Experimental video channel created using Mogulus. Please check back for live events! (Schedule will be posted on the main blog page as well…) Go to the main Mogulus channel to also enjoy its social functions, like real time chat, and others.
Watch the Apple ad on YouTube As a person who has to understand the daily life of non-professional computer users, I always gladly suffer through the pains of those who purchase the right away the new operating systems and the computers based on them as soon as they come out. That is what I also
Vista conviced me. Now I own a Mac. Read More »
