I had paid attention, back in February. I had expressed criticism at the PR mistake of over-promising and under-delivering, and had hoped the tech behind the launch could, against all odds, be remarkable. Today they’re back, telling us they’ll “integrate one of the main search engines” (read: Bing) to do… well, what, exactly is every [...]
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Hey you, with the brown bag! Yes, you, I hope you trip on your shoelaces, lose your balance and involuntarily hit the beer of that 150-kilo biker who will retribute by making you his bitch for the next month. I then hope the cops bust him for drugs and throw you in the slammer for [...]
…and plan what you do. Let me get this straight. This http://ow.ly/6bFMo is the OS @selop said NOK was abandoning? Sounds like the Win XP phaseout strategy…
I said it many times: the web will not kill the publishing inudstry, but crap journalism will. A good example yesterday on “Il Giornale”: Da anni l’Ibm è diventata cinese: è di proprietà della Lenovo e non è stata una semplice acquisizione. Perché Ibm era la vecchia bandiera della supremazia tecnologica americana: ha resistito ai [...]
The decline of the fairest country in the world. [...] Berlusconi is not Italy’s sickness. Italians look at him as if they were looking into an omnipresent mirror, sometimes horrified, not always willingly and constantly concerned about what could be hiding behind it.
It seems I can only blog about items related to an old love of mine, the Digital Self. Today I spotted this article on C|Net which prompted me to download Mansour’s code. More poignant, however is the discussion itself: how can it possibly be AGAINST Facebook’s terms to scrape MY OWN social graph? Yet it [...]
But I do not love their new T&C – read this excellent post by Roland Schorr. Money quote: By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) [...]
Ever since the invention of private browsing mode the suspicion was there that it was merely a way to avoid being catched for surfing porn. Or at least, so I am told. Now the good folks at Bitter Wallet give us at least one legit reason to use it, which is to fool some shady [...]
