Posted by
Gianluca Carrera on Sep 16th, 2011
Tournament style incentives are like tournaments: the bests get most of the bonus, much less (if anything) is left to the others. The ones that outperform the peers are given more than the others. Now, you can outperform in two ways: 1) working better 2) make sure your peers do a bad job.
Another interesting note is about luck: the more luck impacts the outcome, the higher the incentive has to be. Easy example:...
Posted by
Gianluca Carrera on Feb 16th, 2011
Agenda Digitale: il PD ha condiviso alcune proposte per supportare l’iniziativa.
1). Garantire il diritto all’accesso al digitale a tutti i cittadini.
2). Investire sulle reti per assicurare a tutti i cittadini un’offerta digitale adeguata e competitiva con gli altri paesi europei.
3). Sviluppare i contenuti digitali e contribuire a ridurre il divario della nostra domanda rispetto agli altri paesi...
Posted by
Gianluca Carrera on Feb 14th, 2011
WOW! #superbowl reached 4064 tweets per seconds right at the end of the game. The all time record for Twitter was almost 7000 tweets per second in Japan, at New Years Eve.
Check out the amazing chart which plots the evolution of tweets during the Superbowl. From 15pm to 20pm there has been an average of, say, 2000 tweet per second (probably more). That makes about 36 million tweets during the Superbowl with...
Posted by
Gianluca Carrera on Jan 31st, 2011
Per troppo tempo l’Italia è rimasta in coda alla rivoluzione di internet, mancando di godere di enormi benefici in termini di stile di vita, servizi, occupazione, creazione di ricchezza e comunicazione. Un numero elevato di imprenditori, manager e dirigenti hanno scelto, loro malgrado, di migrare all’estero per realizzare i propri sogni, poter metter a frutto le proprie potenzialità, e contribuire a...
Posted by
Gianluca Carrera on Jan 30th, 2011
Cool initiative from “Ferrovie Dello Stato”, the italian railways and train operator, in collaboration with Social Media Week Rome.
On February the second, during the social media week, a special “Frecciarossa” train -the Italian high speed train, traveling at 300+Km/h between Milan and Rome- will leave Milan at 9,15 to reach Rome at 12.45 after having stopped at Bologna and Firenze. The...