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Steve Jobs is slowly leaving the limelight…


If you have followed yesterday’s Apple keynote presentation of the new Macbooks (if not, watch it here) you have noticed that Steve Jobs one-man-show was replaced with a balanced, all planned, three-man-show with Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Jonathan “Jony” Ive. Cook (Apple’s COO) and Ive (Senior VP of Design) are well known as vital [...]

(good) Airport Experience: no english but courtesy and smiles


It has been long since I last had a good airport experience, apart from the shiatsu massage (I paid for) in JFK last January.
Airports in western countries have become hostile territory for travelers. I can understand strict rules and thorough controls due to a tense international situation (although I think they wouldn’t be too useful [...]

Brad Jefferson & Animoto.com - The end of slideshows!


(note: the italian version of this article is available on 7th Floor online magazine)

The web of the late 90’s was pretty different from what we are now living online. I recall that, at the startup I used to work for, new features were developed only taking into account the product (surely of high quality) and [...]

Digital Entrepreneurs - Jay Bhatti of Spock.com


Digital Entrepreneurs are those entrepreneurs that embrace an idea and make it real using digital resources. Some of them create a new search engine, which lives only in a world of bits and bytes (eg. Google and Yahoo), others jump from a digital platform to the “real” world (like Amazon, etc). Nowadays no one argues [...]