The announcement dates back to just one week ago and it has already sparked the usual trepidation around the web about what the next shiny little device from Apple could be. From the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on September 1, Steve Jobs will reveal the Apple’s news, music-themed this time of the year: it will probably be a product to be launched in the coming weeks, but about which we don’t…  Read More →

Dallas – The bomb blew up just a few days ago when a Los Angeles Times article reported that Blockbuster Inc., the video rental giant, is ready to file for bankruptcy. Overwhelmed by debt and losses amounting to over $1 billion since 2008, the video rental chain is yet another of the world’s most famous names to join the long list of once successful companies that have not been able to adapt their business to the radical changes in... 

What’s the cost of tweets sent daily on Twitter in terms of CO2 emission? According to data from Twitter, published in February 2010, every day around 50 million tweets are sent over the popular micro blogging platform. Considering an average time of 10 seconds to write one single tweet and the average consumption of 250 watt/hour for one single computer, the total daily consumption amount to 35 kW h (kilowatt hour). Multiplying this value... 

Make HTML-based touch applications. Easy. In the last two years the rapid growth and diffusion of touch devices such as iOS or Android based platforms has forced developers and web designers to rethink the model of their own webapps for the new “touch experience” introduced by the iPhone in 2007. During this period several frameworks have been released to help web developers implement quickly applications for this kind of touch devices.... 

The navigation bar is an inevitable element in every website. In this post I want to share with you some simple practices and suggestions aimed at designing a perfect HTML navigation bar. Let’s start illustrating the typical HTML structure. Here is a schematization of a typical navigation bar that contains some links: The HTML code is really simple, nothing more than layer with an unordered list inside. As you probably know, the HTML5 specification... 

2010 is the year of social location-based services: Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Latitude, Loopt, Brightkite and MyTown. In the last months we have seen a rapid growth of social location-based services in particular Foursquare. Sharing your own position to unlock badges and earn points using this kind of services has become an activity that and appeals to more and more people. In the challenge…  Read More →

Are you a popular person on Twitter? What’s the grade of you social influence? Here is a list of tools to measure it. Social influence can be considered as the measure of your reputation across the web and can be calculated through the analysis of several factors such as the authority of your network of contact, your online activity, exposure and visibility of you (or your brand), number of subscribers to your RSS feeds and so on. In particular,... 

Ever wonder how some sites get awesome icons when added to your iOS device home screen? The answer is incredibly easy, yet there are a couple of tricks that will help you get the best from the use of a simple image. Curiosity actually sparked when I started using Reeder for iPad (to me it’s definitely the best RSS feed reader available for iOS devices) and its interface showing big icons for each feed stream. The majority of the blogs... 

Eric Schmidt Google CEO MORE LINKS Is Google Wave a Flop? – WoorkUp Google Buzz strives to take off, because it never left a real mark in users’ hearts. Will they shut it down like they did with Wave? In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, when asked about the rumors regarding the possible launch of a new social network branded by the big G (Google Me), Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a lapidary sentence hat “The…  Read More →

Foursquare is not only a powerful geo-location service but also a way to integrate the social dynamics triggered inside its network for a larger Social CRM strategy. In this article we will decline Foursquare features into the seven business objectives proposed by Altimeter Social CRM framework in order to illustrate how Foursquare now seems to work very well in providing insight, developing social media marketing strategies and optimizing the... 

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. – Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO)  Read More →

Reuters iPhone 4 MORE LINKS iPad: Satisfaction or Disappointment? – WoorkUp Your iPad Is Not Ready for Flash but It’s Ready for Porn – WoorkUp 8 iPad Cases Every Fashion Geek Should To Consider – WoorkUp From yesterday morning Apple’s new iPhone 4 is finally available in Italy. The launch was accompanied by the usual queues of enthusiastic users who waited from Thursday night the opening of the Apple Stores eager to... 

Getty Images Apple iPad MORE LINKS Your iPad Is Not Ready for Flash but It’s Ready for Porn – WoorkUp 8 iPad Cases Every Fashion Geek Should To Consider – WoorkUp Booming Mac sales drive Apple’s best-ever quarter – CNN Reeder For iPad: RSS With Attention To Detail – Gizmodo A success story starring many enthusiasts and a few disappointed. The tablet …  Read More →

Adobe Flash is definitely the preferred platform by the film industry when it comes to creating visually stunning sites aimed at promoting new film releases. Here is a selection of the ten best websites for movies of the current and past season that deserve to be added to your bookmarks as a source of inspiration in the field. Salt – The CIA officer, Evelyn Salt, played by Angelina Jolie, is accused of being a Russian spy and must use her... 

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