http://blog.alessiosignorini.com Tech, ideas, and cool stuff that go through my head every day... Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/free-wifi-and-toolbars-are-used-to-monitor-the-pages-you-visit/ http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/free-wifi-and-toolbars-are-used-to-monitor-the-pages-you-visit/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:13:53 +0000 Alessio Signorini http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/?p=131 If your browser sports a toolbar (e.g., from Yahoo, Google, MyWebSearch, …), you are using Google’s Chrome browser or the free WiFi that they offer in Airports an planes, somebody is gathering data on the pages you visit, how long you stay on them, and what else you do online. This is the sometimes shocking truth that most people ignore when they use free web products without wondering why and how those companies provide them for free.…]]> http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/free-wifi-and-toolbars-are-used-to-monitor-the-pages-you-visit/feed/ 1 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/users-attention-goes-on-first-three-search-results/ http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/users-attention-goes-on-first-three-search-results/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:40:23 +0000 Alessio Signorini http://deepintech.wordpress.com/?p=91 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2010/01/users-attention-goes-on-first-three-search-results/feed/ 1 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/11/great-pictures-elena-kalis-alice-in-waterland/ http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/11/great-pictures-elena-kalis-alice-in-waterland/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:24:59 +0000 Alessio Signorini http://deepintech.wordpress.com/?p=45 …]]> http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/11/great-pictures-elena-kalis-alice-in-waterland/feed/ 0 http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/10/twitter-receives-26m-tweets-per-day-6m-are-urls/ http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/10/twitter-receives-26m-tweets-per-day-6m-are-urls/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:18:13 +0000 Alessio Signorini http://deepintech.wordpress.com/?p=18 There has been almost no day in which, for a reason or the other, Twitter was not in the news. Millions of people love Twitter, others hate it, but everybody cannot seem to be able to stop talking about it. Sure, it is down almost once a day (but that is news too!) and they cannot find a way to monetize the service (although today they just signed a deal with Microsoft and Google, that will help), but its adoption has been massive.…]]> http://blog.alessiosignorini.com/2009/10/twitter-receives-26m-tweets-per-day-6m-are-urls/feed/ 4