Making Things Happen

As many in these hours I installed on my iPhone Foursquare, the location based social network and game useful to explore places. Users are not only able to check-in in different places they visit, but they can also attach tips to these places thus leaving “invisible” notes about that places for others to read. I [...]

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. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

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 [...]

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 [...]