“How is it possible that my 75 year old aunt who lives in Florida is so much better at using modern technology and make it her own, than my aunt in Milan?” Asks Layla Pavone on Bling Bling Blog in regards to the concept of digital divide, a technology gap between those who are online and those who are offline.

Even though Wikipedia describes the digital divide as “the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology (Internet, personal computers) and those without access to it”, from our experience we have  learned that there is a big difference even within the same network with users who surf and those that

In this document I introduce and analyze the new Google algorithm for the indexing and ranking of images. I believe this issue to be crucial considering the increasing number of search engines and that being introduced by Google, it is a real revolution in the field of image search.
These  two points are in some way the problem that Image Rank (IR) intends to address and resolve. The existing algorithms on which, for example, the Google Image search system is based do not involve  in any way the reading of the Image. Currently indexing of images is  exclusively based on certain factors (filename, alt tags, text adjacent to, etc..) that are not

A few days after the launching of Powerset, the semantic search engine for Wikipedia (but not only) we interviewed Lorenzo Thione, co-founder and product architect of Powerset, the Californian company which has achieved this important technological innovation in the field of Semantic Search Engines.

Before going into the  interview in which Lorenzo Thione explains in detail the work behind Powerset, how it runs and how it can improve the experience of online search users, I would like to briefly introduce his compelling career,  for  very specific reasons.

First of all, Lorenzo Thione, as you can guess from the name, is Italian and therefore doubly deserves our attention, because it shows what our compatriots

The time is almost here: in just a few days Qbr will become Ciao People.

What are we doing during the anxious wait?  Letting our community know about this change, or at least making them aware that something is about to happen.

And we’ve decided to do so in a unique way: Starting from today,  on www.qbr.it, every subscribor will be able to  to watch a short video that anticipates “the disappearance of Qbr. A video   created by “the jackall”, a young group of neapolitans, best known on the web for their parodies of famous movies. The intriguing and  exciting video  mimics Hollywood horror film previews.

Qbr is about to change its identity