Internet & Search

Twitter ADs, SSD Disks and Bad Italian Behaviors

Since FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook, Twitter started reducing their access to the tweet stream with the clear intent of penalizing the company. It is obviously a good move from Twitter, and although the authors of TechCrunch complains about it, I can not really see why they should not be doing it. Apparently the [...]

Internet & Search, Travel

Google Latest Releases are Amazing

I am personally really impressed by the folks at Google lately. Sure, they have always been great in search, but in the past few weeks I have seen so many good products, ideas and business deals coming out of their lab which is hard to ignore. First, they made a deal with Twitter only within [...]

Internet & Search

Twitter receives 26M tweets per day, 22% are URLs

In October 2009 Twitter received on average 25.9 Million tweets per day, 22.3% of which contained links. Twitter’s growth was exponential since late 2008 but recently seems to have slowed down.

Featured, Internet & Search

Low Cost Airlines should have an API

If you live in Europe there are many opportunities for visiting the rest of the continent without spending much. There are more than 60 low cost airlines (e.g., Ryanair, EasyJet, …) and today they fly almost everywhere. Here are a couple of examples: two-ways ticket Pisa-Paris is about 50 euros in December, London-Barcelona about 80 [...]

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