A Wave of fresh air for email

Yesterday Google presented what it seems to be a new killer application or, at least, “what email would look like if it were invented today”.
It’s called Google Wave as it brings a total restyling of the oldest, and most used of the Internet applications: the email.

I know many people think email [...]

Gfail!

This morning I had the chance to observe something incredible: thousands and thousands of messages on twitter about the Gfail that’s to say the fail of Gmail’s servers.

It was incredible to see, using twitterfall, the ways people reacted to this event. When I came back after lunch, there were over 8.000 messages in line about [...]

Social media is taking place on Google

This morning I found out that Google interface is changed.
As you can see on the image, new buttons have been added to the screen while reading the list of results.

Three new features are now available:

promote
remove
comment

Just checking techcrunch, and reading the Google blog, it seems like I won’t be one of the few testers able to [...]

Monitoring 2008 US elections using web mapping

How GoogleMaps mapped the 2008 US elections:

Google and knowledge management

As described in a post on TechCrunch called “Is This The Future Of Search?” and as appearing in this Video proposed by Adrian Pike, Google is getting closer and closer to amplifying its core activities, the Search, with some Knowledge management flavor.
As you can see from the image above, this approach will offer users the [...]

Prices are going down. Are we ready to exploit new possibilities?

Last year we discussed about the value of the iPhone and the most common doubts were about the price of the device. Yesterday Mr jobs launched the version 2 of his jewel and ops!!!, now the price is right!! The suggested price is now 199 USD, that is to say around 130 EUR. It was [...]

Mobile and desktop PC: today married

Pc and mobile phone can easily go together. Take your desktop pc, add a small Bluetooth USB adapter (with a laptop you don’t need it), download the software from the site of the mobile phone company (if you have a Nokia as I have, you find it here), get the two devices connected!
At this [...]

Gapminder sw

I found this very interesting application, Gapminder, to show dynamic data evolution in time and in comparison with other data. I have already seen it in action in a quite famous video of Professor Hans Rosling speaking at the TED-conferance 2006 about “Myths on Developing World“.

Some more notes about it: Google, [...]

Power of community

As just announced, yesterday Google acquired YouTube, the most popular steaming video site and the 10th most popular online destination. I found very interesting the analysis of some blogs around about one of the main reason for Google to spend 1,65 billion dollars…
“Why would Google buy YouTube? To start, 35 million users in the US [...]