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“All I want is to go to a website, enjoy it for the time I’ve decided to spend there, and then move on with my life,” he continued. “Is that so much to ask?”

— Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

1 note  23/01/13  #internet  #culture  #user experience

HBO's 'Game Of Thrones' On Track To Be Crowned Most Pirated Show Of 2012

The second season of the show has been downloaded more than 25 million times from public torrent trackers since it began in early April, and its piracy hit a new peak following April 30th’s episode, with more than 2.5 million downloads in a day.

25 milioni di download. E sono solo contando quelli attraverso torrent.

Qualsiasi canale tv venderebbe l’anima al diavolo per avere 25 milioni di spettatori, ma il fatto divertente è che questi 25 milioni non vogliono vedere un canale tv.

0 notes  10/05/12  #game of thrones  #culture  #tvshow  #internet

“Instagram è un’azienda fondata in California 551 giorni fa, nell’ottobre del 2010. Ha tredici dipendenti e zero ricavi. Il suo unico prodotto è un’app gratuita per scattare foto da condividere online. Facebook l’ha comprata per un miliardo di dollari. Un miliardo di dollari è più o meno il pil di paesi come il Burundi, Capo Verde o Haiti. Oppure è di poco superiore al valore del New York Times, un giornale che è stato fondato 116 anni fa e ha più di settemila dipendenti.”

— Giovanni De Mauro in Internazionale.it

0 notes  20/04/12  #culture  #internet

20 notes  19/10/11  #culture  #comic  #internet

“The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.”

—

Tim Berners-Lee

(in his article “Long Live the Web”, on the 20th annversary of the www)

0 notes  19/11/10  #internet  #culture  #berners-lee  #world wide web

Gipi on social network (in italian)

Lungo, ma vale la pena. Qualche pensiero non scontato su Facebook.

0 notes  31/08/10  #gipi  #facebook  #culture  #internet  #social networks

“

Lengthy, detailed emails eat away at time. Email is a time-pig, and we don’t really need a lot to do with it.

You can convey a message in a few, short sentences, as opposed to a few incredibly needless paragraphs.

”

— Make it Manageable on emails

0 notes  31/03/10  #email  #minimalism  #short  #small  #internet

Too optimistic maybe, yet I can say I’d like to agree.

0 notes  31/03/10  #future  #publishing  #internet  #culture

After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site

via New York Observer

Notes  06/02/10  #internet  #culture  #newspaper

(※) tools you should use

mrtoto:

…to simplify how you create and consume content on the web. These bookmarklets sit in my browser’s bookmarks bar; in fact, they’re the reason I display the bar in the first place.

things

  • tumblr — the best ‘blogging’ platform out there when it comes to sharing and the quick and simple creation of content
  • pinboard — bookmarking the way it should be (simple, effortless)
  • instapaper — read things later (on your iPhone or by subscribing to your own feed); remove the cruft around The Content
  • readability — removes everything but the content, and gives you nice typography and formatting to make reading that much easier
  • printliminator — trim sections off webpages that you don’t want printed
  • quietube — shows only the videos from Youtube, nothing else; Greasemonkey script also available to automate

26 notes  13/12/09  #web  #internet  #tools