Yesterday while reading my daily techmeme I saw this headline: Beautiful to use: Nokia unveils three new handsets that merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks The first thing I thought was “wow! Are they really releasing the Nokia Remade?” Actually no, the new Nokias are just pretty neat handhelds, but nothing along the [...]
About one week ago I wrote a post with a similar title on my Italian blog. It was to announce the “beta” of Filo, a small service (well, more like a weekend project) that I developed a while ago, and that turned out to be a good testbed for experimenting a bit with design ideas [...]
In case you didn’t notice, yesterday was Earth Day. I’m not a big fan of whatever-days, but there’ve been a couple of interesting events in the last 24 hours that stimulated my interest. First, Dopplr added a carbon calculator service. Discussing it last night with MattB, I mentioned the fact that for the first time [...]
This week I’m circling on the Milan orbit. My headquarters until friday will be the newly opened and very white Cowo, a coworking space in the forever up and coming Lambrate area. Monday actually started exploring the neighbourhood and ended up with an introductory coffee for Alberto to the place. Milan these days is bursting [...]
Here at Headshift we love being green. We read our McDonough, some of us cycle a lot, we even have a green (and orange, ok) logo! And we always, always shut down unused appliances, like the coffee machine. Now, in order for a coffee machine to work it needs to warm up. It takes an [...]
A week or so ago, I noticed Emily Chang twittering about the rebirth of Game Never Ending. For those of you who wonder, gne was the massive multiplayer game from which, in a sense, Flickr then evolved. Excited by the chance to play it again, I dashed at the site, and had a nice (if [...]
Watched Juno last night. You know what? I loved it. Well done, better played. Nice story, maybe a bit on the optimistic side… …but hey, what’s wrong with that?