Advertising, l’Antitrust Uk pensa a una task force sui mercati digitali - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/advertising-lantitrust-uk-pensa-a-una-task-force-sui-mercati-digitali/

Pagamenti, le banche eruopee lanciano la sfida a Visa e Mastercard - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/pagamenti-le-banche-eruopee-lanciano-la-sfida-a-visa-e-mastercard/

Ci sono delle cose che gli architetti debbono sapere. Alcune belle, altre strane, molte surreali, spesso sorprendenti. Una lista intrigante.

Money quote:
49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri.
50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.
51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
52. Where the CCTV cameras are.
53. Why Mies really left Germany.
54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük.
55. The structural properties of tufa.

https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things

L’importanza delle AirPods Pro: piccole ma fenomenali - il mio articolo per Il Post

https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2020/07/04/limportanza-delle-airpods-pro-piccole-ma-fenomenali/

E pensare che era rallentato il tasso di connessione a Internet: prima del lockdown la gente si connette meno. C'è un incastro (o più di uno) da risolvere. Le cause e le conseguenze sono vitali.

Money quote: "Had growth rates held steady near the 11% average for 2005 to 2017, more than half a billion extra people would now be online. Of the 3.8 billion who remain unconnected, an alarming proportion are women. In poor urban areas, men can outnumber women on the internet as much as two to one."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/exclusive-dramatic-slowdown-in-global-growth-of-the-internet

Note sulle proprietà degli inchiostri delle penne stilografiche.

Money quote: "Fountain pen ink is basically water with colorant and other chemicals required for proper functioning. Each manufacturer has their own formula."

https://crlf.site/log/notes/200430-inks/

Pop-App 2020, il programma per salvare i libri pop-up per l’infanzia - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/07/06/libri-pop-up-per-linfanzia/

Il nuovo servizio di posta Hey è diventato famigerato per le ragioni sbagliate: la polemica con Apple sulla tassa dell'App Store, il desiderio di reinventare il modo con il quale gestiamo la posta. Ne scrivo domani sul Foglio Innovazione. Ma in realtà c'è anche tutto il discorso relativo all'uso delle tecnologie. Perché fare un servizio di posta elettronica adesso è molto diverso da quando bastava installare "sendmail" su un server Unix. Anzi, totalmente.

Money quote: "We didn’t jump into the cloud 10 years ago just because it was cool, it felt like we were comparatively late to adopt Kubernetes, we don’t use a service mesh. We’ve let these technologies mature, and now we’re getting real value."

https://info.acloud.guru/resources/kubernetes-aws-cloud-scaling-hey

Se volete fare una immersione nella mente di uno dei più importanti sviluppatori (ha creato Mosaic) e venture capitalist, questa intervista a Marc Andreessen fa al caso vostro.

Money quote: "Q: You're waking up on Monday morning, or on a Sunday night, you're looking at this [[your calendar]], what are you thinking?

A: I’m thinking “God, I’m organized! I have a plan!”. If I didn’t have this, I’d be in a panic the very first moment I wake up."

https://www.theobservereffect.org/marc.html

Uber spinge sul food delivery, acquisita Postmates per 2,6miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/uber-spinge-sul-food-delivery-acquisita-postmates-per-25-miliardi-di-dollari/

Adware preinstallato nei dispositivi Android, Kaspersky lancia l'allarme - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/adware-preinstallato-nei-dispositivi-android-kaspersky-lancia-lallarme/

News online, Instagram alle calcagna di Twitter – il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/news-online-instragram-alle-calcagna-di-twitter/

Gli Usa pronti a bannare TikTok: “Info in mano al governo cinese” – il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/gli-usa-pronti-a-bannare-tiktok-info-in-mano-al-governo-cinese/

I vincitori scrivono la storia e dei perdenti si capisce qualcosa solo leggendo e mettendo assieme i frammenti. Come quelli dei filosofi greci e romani, i pagani cioè, che criticavano come assurdo il cristianesimo tutto e la Genesi nell'Antico Testamento soprattutto.

Money quote: "According to Julian, Moses’ cosmogony is incomplete. Darkness, the deep and the waters are not said to have been created (God did not say: ‘Let there be darkness’ etc), so they must have been pre-existent. The fact that angels are not mentioned implies that Moses’ God did not create spiritual beings. For Julian, Moses’ God was nothing but an ‘arranger’ of preexisting, non-created matter. Hence he cannot have been the Supreme God, who is the ultimate creator of all things. On other points as well, Julian argues that Plato’s Timaeus makes much more sense as a cosmogony than Genesis 1."

https://aeon.co/essays/why-would-apollo-make-positive-statements-about-judaism

Una storia strana. Questo startupparo ha fatto una azienda di successo, ma ha venduto al primo giro di finanziamenti: era il 2004 e ha venduto ad Yahoo la sua Del.icio.us. Forse ha fatto un brutto sbaglio. L'autore/imprenditore ci riflette, mentre si accredita anche il merito di aver inventato le tag.

Money quote: "The day we signed, Yahoo’s Jeff Weiner was in New York and came to talk to us. It was me and my COO, Albert Wenger. We were in this unmemorable conference room of an investment bank that was helping us a little bit, making introductions — we were too small-fry to actually deal with. We took a few minutes, and then signed on the spot.

We went with Yahoo partially because it was the first company to make a real offer, but also because it had already started a major push into Web 2.0. It had already acquired Flickr; it had acquired Upcoming — it felt like it was trying to make a big change in what it did."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/did-i-make-a-mistake-selling-del-icio-us-to-yahoo.html

Effetto lockdown, più film e meno serie TV nello streaming degli italiani - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/effetto-lockdown-piu-film-e-meno-serie-tv-nello-streaming-degli-italiani/

Siderurgia, Tenova e Microsoft insieme sulla trasformazione digitale - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/siderurgia-tenova-techint-e-microsoft-insieme-sulla-trasformazione-digitale

Oracle porta tutto il suo cloud nei centri di calcolo delle aziende - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/oracle-porta-tutto-suo-cloud-centri-calcolo-aziende-ADtoZOd

Le Scorciatoie di Apple, Shortcuts, sono interessanti per vari motivi. Uno di questi è l'accessibilità.

Money quote: "Before considering shortcuts as an accessibility tool, it’s important to understand their roots in order to properly frame them into perspective. The idea that shortcuts, or workflows, can prove valuable as an assistive technology isn’t a novel one.

Workflow, on which the Shortcuts app is based, was acquired by Apple in early 2017. Two years earlier, however, Apple selected Workflow as an Apple Design Award winner primarily for its integration of iOS accessibility features. Ari Weinstein, who joined Apple to work on Shortcuts post-acquisition, told me in an interview at WWDC 2015 that he and his team received feedback from several blind and visually impaired users who were curious about Workflow and wanted to try it. As a result, the team felt adding VoiceOver support was “the right thing to do,” Weinstein said.

To paraphrase Kendrick Lamar, Shortcuts got accessibility in its DNA."

https://www.macstories.net/stories/why-shortcuts-matter-for-accessibility/