Neither telecoms, nor computing: people

When the (in-?) famous “Does IT matter?” Harvard Business Review article and later book came out, many comments were intoning “I told you! I was right: IT doesn’t matter…”, without realizing that the point of the author wasn’t that of demonstrating that investments in information technology didn’t provide value to the enterprise. The fact is [...]

Listening to our objects

We are living at a time when we are mostly surrounded by the manufactured objects of our technological society, more than by the naturally evolved ones found outside of the human civilization. The main difference between the two being the way not only thy have been born, but also the way they interact with their [...]

The Killer App Is Colored Green

Well, of course there will be may other colors too. The Internet Of Things, and the applications of spimes, and OpenSpime are too numerous to put in just one bucket. But certainly green technologies are going to be an exceptionally important application of widespread, bottom-up, environmental sensor technology. We have come across a couple of [...]

Social Energy Meter initiative announced at Picnic08

We are announcing our Social Energy Meter initiative, and suite of applications based on the OpenSpime technology at Picnic 08 right now. See the last slides of the presentation describing it, which we will also update with the soundtrack into a slidecast.
WideTag At Picnic08: The Social Energy Meter Announcement
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At Picnic 08 mixing up with great people

We are at Picnic 08 in Amsterdam, where we will speak on the Internet Of Things panel on Friday.

More to come, for sure, but in the meantime the first impression confirms our expectations of Picnic being a great response in creativity, and energy to a more exclusive and elitist TED. Even if only in its [...]

Green phones are coming, thanks to Onyx, and CPS Group Italia!

We have issued a press release today, together with Blue Telephony, and CPS Group Italia, announcing their collaboration on the development of a new line of Onyx branded mobile phones, which will be based on the OpenSpime technology platform.

Blue Telephony and CPS Group collaborate on an OpenSpime based mobile phone – Press Release – [...]

A .org to explore policies and grow the community

With the launch of the OpenSpime Developer Network yesterday, and the first public version of the OpenSpime protocol, we have taken an important step to turn our vision into reality. But this cannot be achieved on our own, and as importantly it cannot be achieved without a healthy debate that goes beyond the technical specifications. [...]

OpenSpime Developer Network launches

Today we are launching the OpenSpime Developer Network, where all the coders, hackers, makers who are interested in playing with the OpenSpime protocol, and its various implementations can meet.

It is only through the creativity and inventiveness of the community of developers that OpenSpime will succeed! This is why we are excited that so many have [...]

First OpenSpime message on Twitter

In the continuous efforts done in order to ease mashups, please check out the the first ever OpenSpime Twitter authenticated message. More to come.
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Interviewed by ADN Kronos press agency

The ADN Kronos press agency’s interactive division interviewed us for their weekly segment on the Italian economy, which is then sent to 1200 television stations which air it in their news programming. The judgement of the interviewer is very positive, labeling us “a success story of an Italy that knows how to bet on high-technology”.