A better, brighter Flickr

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In the beginning, Flickr innovated the way people share and discover photos. Today, we are shifting the photo-sharing landscape again. We’re releasing a Flickr that’s more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere.

Biggr. A free terabyte of space

At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s moments can be relived in their original quality.

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it's a pity that this redesign went over the same day of Tumblr's acquisition ... the news went under the radar (for me) until moments ago...

How I Became An Overnight Success

Because the only thing I know for sure is that the best way to become an overnight success is realize it takes thousands of overnights.
- via Hunter Walk ☞ How I Became An Overnight Success..

testing themes

Hello there … I’m playing aroud with the freely available themes on WordPress.com that matches two important (for me) features … Responsive Layout and Post Formats…

Unfortunately at the moment none of the ones available fully satisfy me, so probably you could see some morphing in the weekend (in which I do also hope to put the corrects tags & categories to the posts that I’ve imported from Posterous)!

Portal mania, didn’t we leaved that behind ?

Google Plus is like the late-’90s portal mania all over again — they want you to stay on their site, not go elsewhere.
- via Daring Fireball

what I believe in

This is our first task, caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.

— President Barak Obama

Unfortunately I could not vote anyone near the political stature of Obama earlier today …. sigh

european research doesn’t lift off

Innovation in Europe keeps being locked in national borders

This article(*) on il Sole 24 ore, probably the most important economical magazine in Italy, about the study of how the Research in Europe is still bounded into national borders has depressed me, but not really surprised.

The first two motivation of this stillness of researchers, and so their research, that comes to my mind are money and power.

As far as I know the monthly wage of researchers in northern Europe is (at least) 3x the southern ones. So why a german, english or norwegian researcher would like to come in Italy? Simply for the love of good food?

Second, the power that each “professor” builds up over the years in his hometown is somewhat a capital that no one wants to leave to another one, or try to rebuild at 50y.o. age somewhere else.

Third, often the laws that keeps money into and around the research are crazy. For example after 7 years in this field I still have to understand the principle of why an european project have to say how I spend money on a project and not spend a word on the results of this project. We have ridiculous occasions of having money for people and not equipment, or vice versa … crazy!

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(*) = in italian

Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder.

Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder! →

all I want for Christmas…

Have happy holidays with your families & friends …

to close or not, this is the question

20, 11, 12, 2, 7, 6, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0, this one you’re reading now … This are the number of posts published each month since the start of this 2012 in these pages.

As I’ve lamented before, the early March’ news about Twitter aquiring Posterous was one of the worst thing that could happen to the platform. Aside from being maintained up & running NO single news, functionality, theme, improvement has been saw here at Posterous.

Love of the platform flew away, and I’ve begun posting more regularly over my WordPress.com space.

Sure, over there there’s no such a fast way of publishing images or quotes from interesting websites as here on Posterous, but the platform is alive and always improving.

So I’ve started “pinning” less things over a blog, but all the contents I find and like to discuss are now presented over /home/kOoLiNuS, my public Pinboard bookmark directory and occasionally over my Pinterest space. Come to my WordPress.com space to see more.

In the meanwhile I’m not closing this space, but if things stays are they are now in the future I see no more updates coming here.

And YOU, what are your feelings on this?

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P.S. = I’ve also closed a couple of other Posterous spaces opened here and imported everything on my italian blog or on the WordPress.com one.