Mi ricordo un anno fa quando sul mio blog (che in questi giorni litiga con il manteiner) mi ero fatto gli auguri da solo scrivendo tutte le avventure successe durante i sedici anni.

Come è volato il tempo? Non pensavo i 17 fossero così veloci. Eppure sono passati e hanno completamente stravolto la vita quotidiana. L’indecisione sullo studiare all’estero, poi decidere e partire. Fare su e giù per l’Inghilterra/Italia, prenderere aerei su aerei a volte per le feste, a volte per conferenze, prendendo circa 18 aerei. Sono andato in televisione, ho salutato la Bignardi e ripartito per terminare gli esami, senza neanche avere il tempo di capire che cosa era successo. Quest’anno è stata una corsa.

Qui sono ancora le undici, ma il mio cuore batte italiano.
Con la voglia di correre ancora, auguri a me e cento di questi giorni.

Un grazie a tutte a tutte le persone, grandi, giovani, stranieri, con gli occhiali, sorelle, bionde, buone e cattive che hanno reso questo anno pieno di magia.

Si gira pagina, nuovo capitolo.

The same day when Google Buzz was released, i wrote a script for a better integration of Buzz in FriendFeed, given that Buzz serves a rss that has a title like “Buzz by”.

Here is my script and a quick how-to about using the Buzz2FriendFeed‘ script. The code is under GPL, feel free to reuse it.

I’m in the italian edition of Wired (Feb, n.12), interviewed by Luca Sofri as Digital Native.

Too happy to see me on Wired! If you’re italian, you might be interested to read this post on my italian personal blog.

n Italy, Facebook decided to close every group concerning Massimo Tartaglia – the man who punched the Prime Minister Berlusconi. A lot of people criticized Facebook for this, because they wouldn’t be able to freely express themselves.

But don’t forget Facebook is a company. You can’t write on a wall that doesn’t belong to you. The owner may decide to do what he would like to, with his own wall. [Read more →]

Today I received the email, from Slideshare.net, that noticed me that my slides are on the homepage. That’s because I tweeted them and lot of people retwitted. Thanks to everybody :)

The slides I’m talking about are in the previous post What I think about the future of Media.

As I promised, in an earlier post, I’ve posted the slides I used for my speech at the VeniceSessions on Slideshare (where I met lot of interesting people, like Weinberger).

I fixed a few points. I can summarize my speech as follows:

The Internet is a revolution in continuos evolution, and everything is evolving with it

With the new media, we can choose to get what we want, when we want it. If traditional media moves into this direction, they might survive

If you don’t have an internet connection, you’re out of touch with the world – if you are not on internet, you’re unknown

There are many other points made in the slides.

Assuming my readers are not italians, you might not know the singer Nesli, a good italian rapper. One month ago I started to be consultant about web strategies, internet pr and personal branding on internet (a mix of all) for him, someone called me “Internet VIP Assistant/Strategist”.

No, I’m not a social media expert, I’ve just tried to use the web in unconventional ways to promote Nesli. This is the first time I work in this area. Everything is going very well. Here are the stats about his Facebook page. We started from 0 fans. Ok, don’t be scared, I’ll explain how we did ;)

Hashtags, invented by Chris Messina in 2007, are the most amazing stuff in twitter I think. Using an hashtag we can tag our tweets. Tagging posts sometimes means keeping track of an event or of a topic. Right now, I could say that Hashtags are the 1.0 of TwitterTags. Another kind of TwitterTag (or Microsyntax for twitter), we can consider, is the “RT”.

Today I read this amazing post from Chris Messina writing about slashtags, that I called the TwitterTags 2.0 so the new Twitter microsyntax.

What are the SlashTags?

Sure you might have never listened this word, but you can understand I’m speaking about using slash “/” in tweets. Who comes from IRC world, already knows that slashes are commands ( Slash + a word like /join ). Here examples of using SlashTags. There is a project about this new kind of microsyntax, you can collaborate or just read all about Slashtags in this wiki [Read more →]

Today my father told me to come back home, because a package arrived from Harvard. On 19th October I went to Venice for the Venice Sessions event (i talked about that on my personal blog, I’ll post soon my slides), I met and I had dinner with David Weinberger and other relevant people on internet. Speaking, lot of discussions born, and Mr. Weinberger said me to read his book The Cluetrain Manifesto.

The book arrived from Harvard, of course, is The Cluetrain Manifesto sent and signed by Weinberger. Too excited can’t wait to read it.

These are the slides I presented for an Ignite event. I had these speech in 5 minutes. 15 secs per slides. It was like a challenge, but it was a great experience.