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Today I would like to give you a quick update about…me :-) 

People familiar with my activities and who have been in touch with me for a while now, know me mostly as a “startupper”, in particular involved  with Twimbow, the company I co-founded, or Abbeynet, the company from which Twimbow was spun off and that I served for the past 12 years.

Today I would like to share with you an important news related to my new adventure: starting July 2nd (next monday), I am joining Research In Motion in the Developer Relations team as BlackBerry Developer Evangelist for the italian market. 

To be honest, this is a news for me, too, quite unexpected, everything happened very quickly. There are a couple of reasons behind this choice, first and foremost the great challenges RIM has been facing in the past months and the incredible effort they are putting to change the skin of the company completely before the launch of their new smartphone based on BlackBerry 10 OS. 

For this reason, I am very proud to have been chosen for this important role. RIM is creating an outstanding Developer Relations team around the world, headed by VP Alec Saunders, dedicated to help developers bring their great apps to the new upcoming operating system.

BlackBerry 10 is gonna be an incredible revolution for the smartphone market, a truly open platform, capable of running Android apps natively and also the platform that is easiest in terms of porting and developing mobile apps. Moreover, it’s the only truly multi-tasking mobile OS, open to possibilities that could have been never imagined before, with outstanding performances.

Looking forward to next Monday, ready to do my best for the success of RIM.

For any question, just drop me a line ;-)

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I had been using Safari 5.2 for a while now and switched back to Chrome the other day. You know what? I miss Safari. I have the feeling that it’s faster overall. The big downside is the lack of favicons. When will Apple finally add this little feature to their browser?

What do you think? Safari 5.2 or Chrome?

On March 20 both Safari 5.2 beta and iMessage for Lion have been updated on March 20th. You can get the former from the Apple Developers website and the latter from this link. For Safari 5.2, this is the second update (release on Feb 16th and first update on March 5th).

Can’t see any evident change in iMessage, while Safari looks even faster now. Unfortunately the popular plugin Glims doesn’t work anymore so… forget favicons in tabs (something I like a lot). Moreover I still can’t use the reading list, is it just me?

If you have an iPhone and haven’t downloaded this app yet, do it now. It keeps your Address Book in sync with your Facebook contacts, so that avatars and contact info are always up-to-date. 

I find it very useful, you?

Maybe it’s me, but when it comes to manage my email, the web Gmail interface is nothing but the best option.

I have all my accounts forwarded to my Gmail account because of its powerful filters and anytime I try to use native clients on my Mac, I always end up going back to the web interface.

Why? It’s simply the best option, in particular when you need to make searches. No Postbox or Sparrow can beat it.

What do you think?

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Very interesting post about WebRTC, the new stack that will shape the future between WWW and realtime communications.

My favorite service today. Great idea, great team, very useful service for any family. Get it now :-)