Giuseppe Taibi’s Techlog

While in sunny Austin, TX for SXSW, Leeander, Foll and yours truly conjured up a plan to make location-based sound meter WideNoise a free app. This was the tagline that we crafted and deployed in the twittosphere:

WideNoise is now FREE for SXSW! Download it now and build together the noise map of Austin!http://j.mp/sxswnoise #sxsw

Three days later, WideNoise ranks #1 Lifestyle [...]

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As of last Friday, Apple’s stock reached the all time high of $218.94 . As a result, Apple is now the fourth largest company in US by market capitalization, less than ten billion dollars behind Wal-Mart. If the stock rally continues, Apple will become number three, right behind Microsoft. As Apple fanboy and shareholder, I [...]

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Check out what Apple is featuring on the App Store for Black Friday 2009.

Servers for you: cheap dedicated servers?

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I have tested both apps and so far I prefer the performance and ease of use of RedLaser. While ShopSavvy does more than RedLaser, it shows that it is a port of an Android app and it does not feel like a real native iPhone app. For example, RedLaser product detail page fetches the very [...]

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I am pleased to report that major Italian newspaper and news website La Repubblica has published Gabriele Isman’s new interview with me:

È un cervello siciliano in fuga a Boston il re delle applicazioni
Originario di Montaperto laureato a Palermo vende olio doc su Internet Col software sullo skateboard ha scalato le classifiche. “Mi fa pensare che [...]

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I am thrilled to be in splendid Venice, Italy for Venice Sessions, a forum about the future supported by Telecom Italia and Nova 24. This session is on the future of media in the digital age and I my presentation will be about the role played by the iPhone ecosystem.
Live streaming video beginning tomorrow, Tuesday [...]

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WAVE Factory

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Now (well, almost now) you can develop an iPhone app using Flash.

source: Adobe Labs – Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for iPhone

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This app is able to scan the barcode of a food product and does not even require the latest 3GS. I am impressed!

FoodScanner Demo from Andy Smith on Vimeo.

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