Fibonacci was right

messing around with Google Wave

lucaP — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:08:07 +0000

I was finally allowed access to Google Wave last week; but did not get any invitations to forward my friends -hence I started a public wave with other people expressing their gWave loneliness on twitter …the resulting beast is included below, thanks to the wavr wordpress plugin. This is clearly not the ideal case scenario for [...]

Stradelli Guelfi: la guida definitiva

lucaP — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:15:00 +0000

A Bologna il problema Stradelli Guelfi, vale a dire ‘come arrivare al mare senza rimanere imbottigliati in autostrada o sulle statali’ è un classico che tiene banco dagli anni ‘60. Molti ‘cioccapiatti’ si sono auto-eletti a massime eminenze sull’argomento ma, anche nell’era GPS, capita di ritrovarli vagare disperati, ormai in territori ferraresi più [...]

In Siena for the 2009 PALIO? here’s your Contrade map!

lucaP — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:29:55 +0000

Like all foreigners visiting Siena for the palio horse-race, and despite my 4 years living in Siena, I keep getting confused about the contrade territories. Many times I tried searching the internet for this and could not find any clear mappings of the contrade, so, while the original 1729 document establishing the boundaries might be interesting [...]

Seo and socialMedia-friendly page for latest (recent) Earthquakes in Italy

lucaP — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:35:10 +0000

INGV Bologna reformats the feed from the Centro Nazionale Terremoti; republishes it and forwards it to Twitter, Facebook and as a daily digest Email newsletter. The page had been created in order to give the scientific content released from the institute a better SEO ranking, since the original pages just don’t appear on any of the [...]

How to create groups on Twitter and follow threaded streams of twitter updates

lucaP — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:55:27 +0000

It’s very easy to miss updates in twitter due to the amount of stuff that keeps coming in; and it is just a pain to read your friends’ random jokes, your colleagues rants and world news all intermixed in a single stream. People keep bragging about this and Facebook (not Twitter) did listen and reacted! but [...]

Aggiornare Facebook da Twitter

lucaP — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:08:32 +0000

Visto che nessuno sembra quasi averne mai parlato sul web italiano, segnalo Selective Twitter Status una semplice applicazione che permette di aggiornare il proprio status Facebook attraverso Twitter. Requisiti: un account su Twitter ed uno su Facebook, massimo 60 secondi tra installazione e configurazione. Esisteva già una applicazione simile rilasciata da Facebook stessa, la particolarità e la [...]

Una guida per nuovi utenti Twitter, in stile Twitter

lucaP — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:32:17 +0000

A seguito dell’articolo su Repubblica riguardo Twitter, e per i tanti altri in fuga da Facebook, ecco una piccola guida per nuovi utenti, in 140 caratteri (x24). 0) Twitter è un network sociale che permette lo scambio di messaggi di massimo 140 caratteri. 1) Registrati e i messaggi che invii sono immediatamente visibili da tutti nella timeline pubblica [...]

TweeterGetter: a major multi-level pyramidal scheme (scam) hits Twitter!

lucaP — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:24:32 +0000

As many Twitter users I do check Retweetist regularly to check out what’s hot; this morning I sadly discovered TweeterGetter (by @garymccaffrey) at the top of the list, just another multi-level pyramidal scam, asking full access to your account in exchange for thousand of unknown @followers. The site consist of a single page full of the usual multi-level jargon, [...]

Last call: summer 2008 intensive dance stage in Italy, europe

lucaP — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:37:54 +0000

The Toscana Capoeira Workshop 2008 is approaching, and there are still a few spots available! It is going to be a dance intensive workshop exploring the secrets of Capoeira, Maculelè and of the beaches of southern Tuscany (Italy) . Please proceed to the event website for all details; I never figured out why the rss feed [...]

Top CMS platforms, an Alexa rankings comparison

lucaP — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:12:11 +0000

Great ’state of the CMS world’ discussion going on over there in 456Bereastreet.com land.Very interesting for a MODx addict running a Wordpress blog like me. Too bad the Alexa widget included below is not showing up, try it by yourself directly on Alexa!/*