Streaming live in a few hours from the OpenSpime Drinklink
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008I will be streaming live from the OpenSpime Drinklink in four hours (8PM CET, 11AM PST) on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus.
I will be streaming live from the OpenSpime Drinklink in four hours (8PM CET, 11AM PST) on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus.
Online worlds vs. Social Networks
Friday, April 4th, 2008photo by L*u*z*a* My friend Roo is going to moderate a panel today at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in New York on 'Evolution of Games and Social Networks', with people from Sony, Google, and Millions of Us on, and he said "What would you like me to ask them?". Now you ...
Why is Creative Commons great? My Flickr reuse stories
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Creative Commons is a framework for easily labeling your creations with licenses that grant automatically rights which are broader than the ones under the traditional 'All rights reserved' copyright model. It doesn't mean that you are giving away or giving up your copyright, but that who wants to use your ...
OpenSpime: What do you know about your planet?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008You have heard about spimes. They are a new class of objects, originally envisioned by Bruce Sterling, author and Wired columnist, who also invented the term by compressing 'space' and 'time'. Spimes are aware of their environment, they know where they are, and when they are, and keep track of ...
Strategic Marketing Evolves - lecture at the California School of International Management
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban "Strategic Marketing Evolves - The changing role of brands in the network age" Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated ...
Dealipedia to add transparency to corporate deal flow
Monday, February 4th, 2008Dealipedia 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 ...
Seminar about strategic marketing and today’s technologies
Friday, February 1st, 2008I 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 ...
Vodafone’s censorware hits Italian political discourse
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008The 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, ...
Programmers are crucial to the advancement of any new computing metaphor
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008In 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 ...
Open Government Data Principles
Saturday, December 8th, 2007I 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 ...
