President Obama and the new American look

I am surrounded by friends rejoicing for Barack Obama's triumph. I am happy too. Disappointed as I am by George W. Bush's policies, by the political isolationism of the United States, by the absurdity (yes, I know about the actual reasons...) of the refusal to join the Kyoto protocol, I also hope the new American President will steer the U.S. in a better direction.

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Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 11:50:58 AM
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Lessons taught, lessons learned

During the last two days I was teaching to a class at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. The topic: how to become an "Rfid entrepreneur". I asked a group young guys and girls to imagine an innovative application of Rfid technology (radio frequency tags which add memory to any kind of object and let them share their memory with other objects, computers or people). I asked them to get together in groups organized around different application areas (safety, public utility services, fashion, sports...) and to work for a couple of hours imagining how these tiny tags could enable new services and products.

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Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 07:16:26 PM
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Four days in Rome as a beggar

A couple of weeks ago I spent four days in Rome as a beggar. I did my best, creating a hidden identity, living only with the money given to me by people I asked, not revealing to the police what I was doing, sleeping at the train station, talking to many inhabitants of the "underworld".

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Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 03:38:07 PM
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"Yes, Nuke"

Last week I had an inspiring talk with Mark Lynas, age 35, British  journalist and author of the bestselling book Six Degrees. We talked about global warming, renewable energies, sustainable policies. Then I asked him about nuclear energy. Lynas has always been a radical ecologist, but he responded to my question saying: ´I was actually against nuclear power. The problem of waste was not fixed in the past as it is not now. But the global warming problem is now too serious to keep fighting about nuclear energy.

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Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 03:13:46 PM
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Getting into The Cloud

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Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 12:51:47 PM
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The Rise of Non-Aligned of Energy

There is something happening in South America. And it has a lot to do with oil and gas. Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez, presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela, expelled yesterday the US ambassadors from their respective countries. The day after, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya suddenly suspended an important public event with the local US ambassador.

The United States responded by quickly revoking the credentials from the Bolivian and Venezuelan ambassadors in the U.S., Mario Gustavo and Bernardo Alivarez, in a growing enpasse that could undermine the stability of the South American continent. 

Latin America has been becoming more and more divided over the choice between a partnership with the U.S. and a search for alternative alliances, but why have these countries come out all of a sudden so strongly against the U.S.? Because of Russian backing, is a common explanation. And this is largely true, but not completely and not for the most commonly believed reason.

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Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 07:07:16 PM
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Good Glob... bad Glob...

Many people (including myself) often criticizes globalization. There are so many dark sides on this process that is quickly involving all of us somehow. There is, in other words, a bad globalization that have to be changed, or slowed down.

But there is also a good globalization, that bring value to the most of us. I thought this was a good topic for a fist short post of this blog, because it was made in Bucharest, 1.911 km from Milan, where I live.

I haven't chosen my partner in Romania because of money, but because it was hard for me to find here in Italy somebody able to put into practice, at a reasonable price, what I had in mind. So I called for estimates in four countries and I chose the best offer around. This was my very first experience of offshore outsourcing. The perfect relation is the one who creates value for who deal in it, and also for who doesn't. This website has created a good value for me and for the consultant who helped me in Bucharest. It also was good for the environment, because bytes doesn't emit CO2 in the ecosystem while they are moving around and doesn't even consume fuel.

Welcome all to this blog!

Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 03:51:55 PM
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