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Laurent is in San Francisco this week at Google I/O and managed to catch up with Robert Scoble and give him the scoop on OneSocialWeb. (Watch out for my cameo appearance during the demo.)
Photo credit: Rob Pongsajapan.
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Lift conference and helping to run a workshop on user privacy. This was a workshop with a difference. My colleague Franco Papeschi came up with the idea of a privacy “game” (”Denopticon“) which would help participants explore the issues around privacy, personal information [...]
How to make real-time data useful?
Live Reviews is a mash-up concept, that takes the ever changing technologies of the real time web and cooks up some live funky bits of its own in the background. Speaking of real time web, ever thought about what the best thing is about twitter? The fact that [...]
Companies like Facebook and Twitter need no introduction; between them these two giants of social media have close to 500 million users. With communities of this scale it is no wonder that millions of pieces of information such as status updates and tweets are being created and shared every single day. In fact an estimated [...]
Have you ever been with a group of friends or family and wanted to share some content with them? You have probably wondered: Wouldn’t it be nice if I could use the TV to share these pictures right now instead of letting everybody put their fingers on my device?
This seemingly simple, domestic problem hides a [...]
Two months ago, we introduced you to our onesocialweb project: an opensource project that aims at building a free, open, and decentralized social networks. We explained the idea, we showed what it looked like, and we answered many questions. However it was only a prototype running on our servers, there was no such federated social network.. [...]
Over the past two years Linux OS distributions have been going through rapid changes in how network connectivity has been managed at a software level.
This in part is due to the boom Linux seen in Netbooks. All of a sudden it became important to get connected with Linux. A sudden rush in network connectivity applications [...]
As you probably already know, virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. If you are in the IT industry, these are not big news for you, as probably most of the servers in your company are already virtualized, and probably your desktop PC or laptop will be soon.
The cost [...]
How the apps for next generation tablets will bring us closer to connected living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, gardens,…
After all the hype surrounding the Apple iPad announcement two weeks ago, things have finally started to settle. While consumers are now starting to wonder what they will use a tablet for and if they will buy one, [...]
Smartphones –Smartphones Everywhere
It seems that there are literally smartphones everywhere now-a-days; almost everyone on my bus and train each morning pulls out an Android or iPhone type device at some point on the journey. In fact I think up to 17% of the consumer mobile phone market in Western Europe and the US can be [...]
