TV is SOCIAL, again

When we launched TOK.tv a year ago, my only focus was on understanding what users would do with our app. A year later, I believe we know a t...

During the weekend, I read an interesting article about the "Android First" strategy. If you are not familiar with the "So...

I have developed software for more than twenty years, and I am still amazed at the surprises you find along the way. You design a product, w...

Saturday, I woke up tense. Quite early, because I am still jet-lagged, and definitely tense. Juve was going to play at 11:45 am and I had ...

The day after the SuperBowl, I had mixed emotions. I was licking my wounds for the loss of the Niners, but I was really happy for the amount...

I have never thought about starting a social enterprise. I always begin from a need I have, and I go about solving it. For Funambol, I despe...

When we started TOK.tv, we had a certainty: people will prefer to watch TV with friends, rather than alone. We were convinced that they wo...

As you might know, we have been working on TOK.tv for a while now. Our goal is to let you TALK to your friends while watching TV, making s...

There are days where a trend you noticed becomes absolutely visible. Today is one of those days. I have seen the Android brand disappear o...

During the Super Bowl yesterday, we had an explosion of downloads and users for TOK Football. The systems responded very well, and I was...

The day before the big 49ers game, NBC news had a segment on second screen. We were a bit surprised they decided to dedicate it entirely t...

Today is a great day for TOK.tv. TOK Football can be downloaded from the App Store , worldwide. It is our second second screen app, after TO...

I spent the last two days in Redmond, invited by Microsoft (hey, they seems to be interested in Social TV, that is a good sign...). As ...

I have always been a big admirer of Steve Jobs and his work. For an open source guy, the love I have for Apple is hard to justify (they are ...

I have been fortunate to spot the Internet at its infancy, when I started Internet Graffiti in 1994. I launched a web document management pr...

Yesterday, I was invited to give a talk at OSBC 2012, called "The Future of Mobile Open Source". The Open Source Business Conferen...

I have been talking about (and doing) personal cloud for years now. Ten years ago I wrote the first line of code of what became Funambol (th...

If you do not live in mobile, you probably have never heard about the word "onboarding". Too bad, because it is the most important...

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 1999, one thing really hit me: my grandma in Italy had a cellphone then, and in my soon-to-IPO tech start...

Among the somewhat interesting things I saw at CES, the Samsung Note topped the list. Mostly, because Samsung made a big deal out of it: t...