Posts Tagged ‘virtual’

Knowledge-based economies

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The inspiration for this article came from a twitter-war between some of my online friends, siding either with Nokia or with Apple in their fight about who should license what.

The last round? Apple asking US Courts to block the sale of Nokia products in the USA (as a side-effect of Nokia request that Apple licenses its innovations that have been allegedly used for the iPhone etc).

Inspiration, I said.

The real issue is: are our business development and FDI (foreign direct investment) attraction models, created for an industrial era, sustainable when we shift toward a knowledge economy based on the WTO legal framework?

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Communicating online/offline: a quick reference

Friday, September 11th, 2009

If you read this blog once in a while, you probably remember the announce that I posted on 2009-04-22: “Social Networking: First Book

At the time, I added only the link to the printed version.

This article is really what I could call a “meta-article”: an article about articles.

With links and references not just to material published in this blog, but also material that I published elsewhere, and bibliographical references.

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A virtual news agency

Monday, July 6th, 2009

If you were to visit a news organization, say, in late 1970s, you would have seen a room with the constant chattering of teletype machines.

Every once in a while, a line would appear with a catchy title, followed by few more lines.

I remember that it was called “strillo d’agenzia” in Italian (I was but a kid, tagging along with my father).

Recently, I have been supporting few pro-bono startups.

In this short post, I would like to focus on a simple issue: layering your online information, taking a page from 1970s news agencies and organizations.

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100th post! signposts for XXI century visibility- a directory

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Well, it started in February, and now it reached 100 postings. And 150 twitter postings (between @robertolofaro and @aleph123).

As you know, this is a knowledge-sharing platform, not the usual 2-minutes-a-post blog.

This post is something slightly different- and it is also an announce.

This Summer, I will publish an updated version of my work on the introduction of new media and technologies in business processes, including both profit and non-profit/government/institutions.

Meanwhile, to celebrate the 100th post on this blog, I enclose a “virtual library” of references: books, links, short advice.

Enjoy! And post any comments via direct messages to my twitter @robertolofaro

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A brave new (virtual) world

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

this document is just an introduction to the subject, and therefore it is in a “bullet list” format, with a main issue introducing each bullet list.

it was presented on 2008-09-28 (WGAW Registered) as a proposal for concept for a chapter on “social networking: security issues”, as part of a wider book on “network security”, but eventually I had to withdraw from consideration my concept.

my original material is published here, with some limited changes, due to the evolution of the subject, and to make this posting as self-contained as possible.

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Gated communities

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

My American friends will certainly assume that I am referring to locations like, say, those towns that allow only residents above 50 years of age.

And this is a partially correct assumption.

Without knowing, you too belong to probably more than one “gated community”.

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