If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The first news that I came across today are about two interesting deals. The biggest one is Google to acquire Digg (seems to be still a rumor, though) while the other is GigaOM to acquire small mobile blog (that [...]

Historically, yellow pages have always been the main resource for people, through their big books, to find a plumber, a restaurant or the closest chinese takeaway Now that this landscape is changing quickly and the online channel, particularly thanks to Google, is definitely the next big thing in the field of local search, Yellow [...]

I just came across this very interesting service which offers video recipes of the best and most famous italian food to an international audience who appreciates the cuisine of my country. I really like this service and can guarantee that, yes, “italians do eat better” You can also subscribe to their Hictu channel through the [...]

According to some rumors, it seems the #1 Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, is in talk with AOL for a possible acquisition. The deal value should be in the range of $20-30M. Not sure whether this rumor has really a solid base or not, anyway since Michael Arrington lives his life dealing with rumors, I think we [...]

Hictu 2.0 has been launched on July 7th, but some updates are online today. Here is a quick list: - bigger video available and better recording quality - video length now limited to 5 minutes instead of 1 - improved RSS support - if you reply to a message which has been posted to Twitter too, @user will appear in [...]

SmugMug, the popular professional photo sharing website, introduced SmugVault , a new service which lets users store not only photos, but many other types of files, including RAW (yessssss!), PSD and even excel and word. The service is offered in collaboration with Amazon and costs are the following: Storage costs 22 cents per gigabyte per month. If [...]

Posty is a little AIR-based app which lets you easily post to multiple microblogging services all at once. It’s similar to the web based HelloTXT but it is a desktop client instead. Posty Screencast from funkyboy on Vimeo. I’ll try it out and look forward to seeing my company’s Hictu integrated soon. You can download it here. If [...]