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Crowdsourcing: a success full model
“Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a “crowd”), through an open call” This is the definition from Wikipedia, which is a classic example …Read Post
Is Couchsurfing selling its soul to the devil?
About 8,120,000 members, 80 000 cities around the world and a great desire to host and be hosted for free on a sofa: this is the essence of Couchsurfing.org. The community – that since 2003 has been conquering a growing …Read Post
Once upon a time … Geolocalization
Once upon a time we used to talk about Geolocalization, you know what it means, where different users were able to come together and mix virtual and real life. It’s an old story and everybody is aware of that. Everyone …Read Post
Hackers on the crest of a wave
We have been reading a lot about hacking attacks and illegal actions. Lately they attacked Sony’s Playstation Network (52k users data stolen) and Sega’s platform (hackers have taken over 1,3 million data). On top of this, Dropbox, the well-known cloud …Read Post
OCSE to say Italy as a best practice for digital Public Administration
Italian Public Administration digitalization has been awarded as an international best practice for the eGovernment and transparency, according to an OCSE report named “Government at a Glance 2011” published on June 27. The report claimed that the Italian system has …Read Post
Facebook ups and downs in the World
Facebook is a never-ending surprise, but this is not the news we wanted to give you. The King of Social Networks, since few days, in the US and Canada, started to lose. In May, the total number of subscribers dropped …Read Post
Let’s go QR- Shopping at the Subway Station
Time is money, especially in our daily hectic schedules. Let’s take a look on how Tesco in South Korea has decided to transform the way to go shopping, in order to increase sales, brand awareness and markets shares. You only …Read Post
More and More Geek Grandpas in Japan
Do you remember the multimedia grandpa, one of Mai Dire Gol’s most famous characters (an Italian 80’s TV show)? He was a surreal and sprightly old man, (aka Francis Paolantoni) giving computer studies lessons. The cutting edge technology in Italy …Read Post
Amazon: E-book Mania
Good news for Amazon: sales of e-book have surpassed paper books. Amazon announced that sales of e-books now exceed those of paper books on its site. According to Amazon data, books on Kindle are more read than printed ones. A …Read Post
A 3D Printer…do we need 3D glasses?
3D ways are infinite… on screen and on paper. Yes, on paper! Normal colored printed papers are impressed with a particular technique called “anamorphism” that makes the image a little bit unfocused and warped to trick human eyes. This technique …Read Post
