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Nicola is a 35 y.o. italian male. Considers himself curious and friendly. Married since october 2007, loves: his wife, going around with his Yamaha Fz1 Fazer, reading intelligent stuff, comic books and science-fiction, many TV shows and hangin' out with interesting people.

He works in a bio-tech research center as a GNU/Linux sysadmin and all around ICT guy. Enjoys using a Mac {} with opensource software.

On-line since 1999 (yep, that's 10 year anniversary this year) could be found everyday on many websites, social networks and such ... tentatively it's ALL reassumed on http://claimid.com/koolinus !

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August 10, 2009

Shorten this – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

[S]hortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher’s DNS server, and the publisher’s website. With a shortening service, you’re adding something that acts like a third DNS resolver, except one that is assembled out of unvetted PHP and MySQL, without the benevolent oversight of luminaries like Dan Kaminsky and St. Postel.

There are three other parties in the ecosystem of a link: the publisher (the site the link points to), the transit (places where that shortened link is used, such as Twitter or Typepad), and the clicker (the person who ultimately follows the shortened links). Each is harmed to some extent by URL shortening.

via zeldman.com

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July 20, 2009

Xmarks for Safari

Xmarks is a free add-on for your browser that synchronizes and backs up your bookmarks across multiple computers and more. Xmarks helps you find the best sites on the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.

via download.xmarks.com

I'm a long time user of Xmarks (formerly known as FoxMarks) Firefox extension, using it for keeping in sync my bookmarks between Firefox and Flock on the MacBook, and then on my recovered PowerBook, my Acer notebook, on my parent's pc, at work.

So, when they've released a version for Apple' Safari and Microsoft IE I couldn't be more happy since I usually go in a round robin mode between 'workstations' and browsers all the time ;-)

Only I don't "trust enough" any online service to keep also my passwords on their servers, so I still do have to memorize well each of them :-P

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