Come to the OpenSpime Drink-Link @bastard.it!

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware hacker, a maker, a mashup-wizard? Want to play with spimified Arduinos, SunSpots, iPhones, and more? Than come to Bastard.it for the OpenSpime Drink-Link! In a relaxed and friendly environment in design-crazed, fashion-full ...

Seminar about strategic marketing and today’s technologies

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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 ...

Liveblogging at Web2.0 Expo in Berlin

Monday, November 5th, 2007

09.00 The organization at the Web2.0 Expo is excellent, as well as public transportation in Berlin. I am sure there are a lot of people living here, but they don't bother each other too much! It is easy to get around and arrive in time where you want to. Little ...

Immmersive Second Life platform: Real 2nd Life!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

At the Laboratory of Eidomatics of the University of Milan, in cooperation with Eximia, the RFID company, a new interface has been developed for visualizing Second Life environments, and interacting with them. See a video about Real 2nd Life! Real 2nd Life an integrated system composed of a semi-circular screen, of almost ...

The evolution of software vs. hardware solutions

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

At the AGI mailing list there are several interesting threads, and recently a request by Eliezer Yudkowsky caught my eye, asking for the source of a quote, which I forwarded to Geordie Rose of D-Wave, who indeed replied quickly and in depth. The request was to support that "a 1974 era ...

Watch the iPhone launch live from New York!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Thanks to the cool new Mogulus video platform, you can watch the live stream of the launch of the Apple iPhone in New York! Go to http://iphonelaunch.tv! What I wonder is what will happen to the embedded video once the launch is over... Live video doesn't make too much sense when ...

We all feel fine - and it shows

Friday, June 15th, 2007

We Feel Fine is an incredible display of the power of the web to transform the way we think about humanity. Emotions are among the most human of characteristics, and being able to see their power dynamically is astonishing.We Feel Fine is a website that analyses blog postings to search ...

Speaking about Second Life on Radio24

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Tonight I will be at Radio24, an Italian talk radio of nationwide coverage, to talk about Second Life at a special two hour episode of the Melog talkshow. The broadcast will be also streamed, and downloadable from the radio's website. I've also set up a skypecast, and a skypechat to ...

Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge?

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional relational databases to help 'organize the world's knowledge'. (If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what Google is blindly about, with algorithms that are striving to see with ...

Sony’s PlayStation Home validates, and pushes Second Life model

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

The blogosphere is abuzz (thanks, Massimo!) with the announcement at the Game Developers Conference of PlayStation Home, their take on shared online virtual worlds. Without having had the time to read about it enough, my guess is that the implementation will be flawless, the number of participants huge, the graphics ...