Twitter and Egypt

It does make think how instrumental are social tools like Twitter or Facebook in organizing groups of people around the world. If you think to Egypt, but not only, Yemen, Tunisia, Jordan and other places where peaceful protests and less peaceful riots are happening, it strike how the way for people to organize in groups has changed over the last 10/15 years. Groups can form and disassemble very rapidly involving...

Tumblr

Hum just created my new tumblr account see if it makes for an easier blogging activity. Check it out at http://gianlucacarrera.tumblr.com

Speaking at Kelsey’s DMS 2010, Dallas 14-16 September

In case you happen to be in Dallas next week, I will be speaking at Kelsey’s DMS 2010 for the session ‘The Future of Digital Yellow Pages’, on the 15th, covering topics like future relations between directories and search mobile to surpass online? what the most critical assets for YP? role of agencies new players that might become dominant new business models and others again. Full program here. ...

Kindle

Interesting discovery I just made. Bought a kindle book, and it ended up costing more than the paperback version. Probably a bit premature charging a premium to a nascent technology…

ipad’s cool

Well, you all already know it, I am pretty sure. But the iPad is really cool! Still waiting for some good financial application (like charting software), and some other cool application i have yet to figure out i need, but this piece of technology is really cool. You need to own one, it completely changes the online experience. Call it ‘laid back computing’, it’s going ti change the way we interact...