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How To Type Faster On Your Touchscreen Smartphone: Swype

by Luca Filigheddu on February 5, 2010

How To Type Faster On Your Touchscreen Smartphone: SwypeYesterday I installed on my Motorola Droid what I can definitely consider the most innovative application that should be available by default for any touchscreen smartphone: Swype.
What is Swype? From Wikipedia:
Swype allows a user to enter a word by sliding a finger or stylus from letter to [...]

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Radvision Speaks Italian

by Luca Filigheddu on February 4, 2010

Radvision Speaks ItalianAs many of you maybe don’t know, my background as an engineer is in the field of video coding and digital communications (ten years ago I also published an article on “fractal video coding”, not sure anyone ever read it…) , so I always kept an eye (in particular in the past) on everything [...]

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Click To Call Dissected: The Role Of Social Media

by Luca Filigheddu on February 3, 2010

Click To Call Dissected: The Role Of Social MediaA few days ago I read about the new click to call service for Facebook launched by VoIP Company 8×8 (US only), “8×8 Connect”. Both Om Malik and Andy Abramson shared their thoughts on the service, so I’d like to add my 2 cents to the discussion, [...]

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When Will Google Buy Foursquare?

by Luca Filigheddu on January 29, 2010

When Will Google Buy Foursquare?Yesterday I started using Foursquare seriously. I installed it on my Droid and tested it in a few location in Milan.

As you can imagine, I don’t think there are too many Foursquare users in Italy. I created a few new venues both where I live (Sardinia, the island…) and in Milan [...]

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And The Best Android Twitter Client Is…

by Luca Filigheddu on January 26, 2010

And The Best Android Twitter Client Is…….TweetCaster!
After having switched to Android (check my posts on my new Droid/Milestone here and here) one of the apps I missed the most is my faithful SocialScope, the best app to manage Twitter and Facebook available for BlackBerry. So a question arised: is there a Twitter app for Android [...]

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How Google Ranks Tweets: I Disagree

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