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24 Aug, 2009

A great augmented ID concept

Posted by: Francesco In: Science & Technology

What if we could access a person’s information such as her vCard, Facebook username, LinkedIn profile, Slideshare presentation and much more by simply aiming at her our phone’s camera?
The Swedish company The Astonishing Tribe is developing exactly that, called “Augmented ID”, featuring advanced face recognition algorithms.
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08 Aug, 2009

If the Twitter community was 100 people

Posted by: Francesco In: Internet & Web 2.0

We all know that the Twitter community is pretty small if compared to other social networks, such as Facebook or MySpace, but this simple data visualization shows to us how peculiar is this community.

The facy that only 5% of Twitter users generate 75% of the tweets is astonishing, there are too many “gurus” and not [...]

I was recently invited to witness the launch of NetGlobers, an interesting mashup of a travel social network and a professional guide, created by Europ Assistance.
The idea is to offer useful and trustworthy official content along with user generated content about health risks, climate situations and other information about countries you may want to visit.
The [...]


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