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I don’t understand when people can do this kind of crazy, unuseful……but marvelous things!
Super Mario Bros. from Surfap on Vimeo.
Quando, dovunque io sia, sento nominare il Commodore 64, allora mi incuriosisco…il primo amore non si scorda mai!
Quando ieri alla UGI ALT.net Conference ho assistito alla sua sessione e ho sentito questo, mi è rimasto in mente…
Ho cercato su Internet e guardate cosa ho trovato: Omid Ehsani è stato un programmatore all’Idea, agli inizio degli anni ‘90!
http://quattrobit.blogspot.com/2009/01/cvg-speciale-come-nascono-i-videogiochi.html
Un grande!
P.S. sapevate che c’è un emulatore Commodore 64 scritto in Javascript? Molto ALT.net…
New Scientist reports about Yahoo! that wants to reinvent the postage stamp to cut spam.
I worked on this argument with my company about 8 years ago. We were little, 6 strange guys that wanted to revolutionize Communication world. We spoke about structured communication. We created the business model, the technical model and the software prototype: it was functioning.
We had nice contacts with major national ICT operators (here in Italy) because it would be impossible for us, little six, to support a new Communication platform that needs a worldwide acceptance. Probably the major problem was that we were in Italy…
Ok. After 8 years, I matured some considerations, one business, one social, one technical:
- (BIZ) you cannot force a user paying a service that was always free: a user prefer paying an AV/Antispam
- (SOCIAL) user now have many ways to communicate, due to Web 2.0: Facebook, Tweetter, Skype
- (TECH) I don’t understand why no one consider substituting the old POP3/SMTP/MIME protocols. Web have SOA and Web Services: SOAP is inherently an Envelope and we have protocols like WS-Addressing and WS-Security to allow routing (the basic messaging need) and security for privacy. Why we allow to connect to the internet open, unauthenticated SMTP daemons? Why authentication, where implemented, is only on SMTP supplied by SMTP? the protocols must be always authenticated. A provider a major company can pay for a certificate to be installed on their SMTP service, so you can obtain:
- server identity
- user identity
Oh yes, I think I don’t have problems paying 1EUROcent or 1DOLLARcent or 10DOLLARS/EUROS for 1000/2000/x messages and make charity. But I think that this is only a patch.
Boh….
Marco
