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

In February 2008, Fabio Cecaro, Ciaopeople’s DB Solution Designer & Service Architect, attended the  WMWORLS EUROPW 2008 in Cannes, France,  a remarkable  event organized by VMware Inc. An experience about systems virtualization.  Revolution.  A technology of great interest for any future orientated company.  Fabio tells us about it on Ciaoblog.

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More than 4500 participants from the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, Asia), 100 sponsors, 3days of continuous work, more than 123 break-out sessions, nine 24 hour labs with more than 200 thinComputers, live presentations (solution Exchange) of all hardware and software innovations by all sponsors who work in the virtual field, these are the numbers of the real first great event on virtualization.

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Facebook, Twitter, MySpace represent the most successful social networks and are enjoying their glory days. They allow their users to manage their social contacts in a very simple way, be informed of news from friends and meet new people.

Facebook, for example, totally satisfies these needs, monitoring your friends’ updates, with a feed reader, or with customized applications.

Today Social networks focus on improving the services their softwares offer users to allow them to track their activities, those of their friends and maintain social contact.

It is fair to say that the present system satisfies one of the main requirements of an online user: social communication and possibility to create a virtual network of

For the project of the new international portal, Qbr chooses stability, flexibility, and safety provided by Linux, but mostly it relies on the expertise of Antonio Calabrese, Linux System Manager for Qbr.it, who says: “The greatest and most renowned web projects use Linux, such as Wikipedia, Dmoz and Google.”

Antonio Calabrese, in addition to being highly competent in Linux systems, boasts a long career in the management of complex infrastructures and high traffic portals. After obtaining the Cisco CCNA certificate, he worked in the Unix and Linux servers management and mostly in web environment for eight years. He is currently the Linux/Unix advisor for prestigious companies such as Enel S.p.a.

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