Nintendo 3DS and the useless/useful 3D view

I was reading this article on Gizmodo and had an epiphany: third dimension “revolution” is or it’s not comparable to the color vs B&W revolution in visual arts? If we consider gaming part of visual art, i think it is. But i don’t think 3D is such a big deal as it […]

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Zombie Cookies

“Zombie” Cookies are a perfect example of a badly used technology I’ve recently found this news on Wired about a USA lawsuit against some major USA websites that seems to use Flash cookies to re-set browser’s cookies (the standard cookies we are all familiar with).  I think the name “zombie” […]

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what a coincidence!!!

I was surfing on an italian well-known website the other day and i came across something that dragged my attention: there was a video preview of the Nintendo 3DS. So i’ve started watching and i’ve noticed something funny: on the same webpage, there was an AD (what a news you […]

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Madrid and the World Cup

So, just in time to be back from down-under and here i am again, flying to Madrid for a 2 days trip. Happens that Spain have just won the World Cup. Happens that it’s the first time they win the World Cup. And it happens also that Spanish people likes […]

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Melbourne: Bicycle Race

I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like When i left the hotel i was going to visit the Tim Burton Exhibition, but then i’ve realized it’s also open on thursday night. […]

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Melbourne: walking

So i made it to Melbourne. Flight had a slight delay but I’ve made it. I spent the entire saturday walking around (mainly to keep me awake). Walked from 7am until 2pm: Southbank, then back to the Yerra river, then towards and through Albert park until I’ve reached St Kilda […]

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Singapore: 30 seconds layover…

So the delay due the French strike made us land in Singapore with 3 hours delay. The good thing was that due bad weather conditions there was an air traffic conjestion so also my connecting flight was delayed and u manage to litteraly catch it… I hope my luggage made […]

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Newspaper 2.0

Just a year ago I wouldn’t imagine the future of print to be so close. Am i talking about the iPad? noooooo, that’s way too old… this is the real new technology to read newspapers! I wonder how they are planning to track it. Maybe asking the reader to have […]

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LaCie Little Disk

Yesterday i was window-shopping and i’ve bumped into this cute little thing. I couldn’t resist and i had to buy one. It’s a 30 GB external USB 2.0 hard-drive. Still I couldn’t make up my mind: is it a large USB key or a tiny hard-drive? 🙂 Well, one or the other, […]

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Where do you go?

http://www.wheredoyougo.net/ is a nice tool that you can youse in conjunction with your foursquare account. What? you don’t know yet what http://foursquare.com/ is??? you better go and do your homework because people believe it’s TNBT (the next big thing) and i tend to agree… So check it out and then come back to continue-reading […]

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…more on the Bit.ly post

Following up on my previous post about bit.ly not checking for click-fraud and as i’ve recieved some comment about the “proof-less” post, here is a screenshot i took this morning. It’s clear (and i hope you’ll trust me on this one!) that it’s impossible that this single link recieved more […]

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About QR codes

So, what’s this and why is it interesting? So this is called QR code. Here is the official denso-wave website dedicated to the QR code (as they have invented it, it’s the best place to get its specs from http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/index-e.html). Maybe you begun to see some of those around recently, maybe […]

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bit.ly and the missing click-fraud detection

For the few people that yet don’t know it, here is the short explenation about what is http://bit.ly and why i believe it is useful. If you are familiar with Twitter you might also be aware that you can’t always fit into 140 chars a meaningful sentence AND a link to an external […]

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Is Bigger Always Better?

I’ve decided, instead of writing hundreds of words about the theory, i’ll just paste here a couple of graphs. Here is the first one: Which days of the above week is better? The bigger one is the 4th, that’s the best one! (2.4 Million pages) And how about Unique Browsers (Cookeis)? […]

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Dear Support…(ACME company!)

OFFICIAL ESCALATION PROCESS (e-mail / ticketing system):  [me] dear support, today i’ve tried to login to my laptop and it tells me that my username / password is not correct. Could you please help me? Please reply to this mail address as I can’t access my laptop nor webmail as […]

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Lego Stats and Facts

I’ve always been a Lego fan, since when my grandmother gave me my first lego back in 1979 (this one!) Then i grew up, and as a teenager there is no way you’d admit to anyone that you still like lego (right?!?) and i “forgot” about Lego for a very […]

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If you travel a lot…

.. you can’t miss the opportunity to get yourself a fully working mouse that is also small enough to easily fit in your desktop case without making it look oddly shaped…. So far until yesterday i thought the only solution was to use a mini-mouse, but i’ve always found myself […]

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Madrid and eBook readers

Here I am… after 2 hours flight and few kids screaming in the seats behind me i’ve finally landed and reached the hotel. Didn’t take any picture yet, mainly because i have been very busy playing with my new toy, the Sony ebook reader – pocket version (AKA as PRS 300.. […]

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About media tracking and tagging

Nielsen//NetRatings – Scott Ross talks about Video Tagging In this interview gave to beet.tv Scott Ross talks about Nielsen//NetRatings Video Tagging and how to track properly the long tail with more depth. He describes both top-down and bottom-up approaches, and explains how VideoCensus works.

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The iPhone does practically anything…

Here is a video i find very funny. This guy does a lot of street magic, and was able to mock up some nice fake applications on the new Apple i-phone. For those who wonder: no, it’s not real, it’s just magic, iphone does not do any coffee… yet! https://youtu.be/lcB8CKa73B0

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Google SiteMaps – keywords statistics (ITALIAN)

Per quanto non molto intuitivo (parlo di me, ma anche google sitemaps in questo caso!) sono riuscito ad ottenere lo stesso tipo di informazioni a cui accennavo ieri (parole chiave usate per arrivare al mio blog): mi limito a riportare l’elenco astenendomi da commentare… ma se voi avete commenti in […]

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Dimmi cosa cerchi e ti dirò…

…se hai trovato quello che hai cercato. Prendendo spunto dall’ultimo post ho fatto alcune considerazioni sulle informazioni che si possono trarre da un report che mostra quali sono le parole/frasi che hanno portato traffico al mio blog. Certo i numeri sono sempre poco significativi, ma se ne possono trarre sempre […]

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Web Analytics Metrics – Glossario #1

Page Impression / page view (o pagina vista per dirlo all’italiana) Per cominciare diamo un occhiata a quale definizione viene riportata nel glossario del sito IAB a questo indirizzo: http://www.iab.it/formati/glossario/detail.aspx?TRS_ID=1667000&ID=2591 “Pagina richiesta da un visitatore di un sito che viene scaricata interamente dal browser di navigazione.Tale pagina è costituita da testo ed immagini […]

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Google Analytics… alcune riflessioni

Ho ricevuto alcune domande da parte di conoscenti e clienti in merito a Google Analytics e ho deciso che il blog fosse la sede più adatta a questo tipo di riflessioni. Nel mio ruolo professionale devo essere aggiornato sul mondo dei tool di web analytics e da vero appassionato di […]

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