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there's NO alternative :) just different interfaces like feedly or reeder... - Gianluca Diegoli

peccato. G+ e' un'altra cosa. Mi manca avere le funzioni del Reader... - Valeria Maltoni

actually, its not pulling what I share on Twitter here anymore... - Valeria Maltoni

true - Valeria Maltoni

very funny - Valeria Maltoni

"Endurance athletes know that people are important. So important that the company they keep not only outwardly represents them but also influences their decisions and attitudes. Surround yourself with great people and your are bound to become great." - Valeria Maltoni

wow - Valeria Maltoni

"For you it could come down to what you believe you should be doing versus what you really should be doing. “That’s just the way it is done around here” might be doubling your work load but making you less effective!" - Valeria Maltoni

"Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Some of these people will excel and decide to go straight into the workforce at 18. They will save tens of thousands of dollars in fees and start earning at a younger age. Again, not for everybody. But it maps to the trade school paradigm that exists in Germany (which isn’t perfect either)." - Valeria Maltoni

"The answer is simple. You would target based on sales response. You’d plan and buy your media on a different demographic with different media consumption profiles. In short, you’d reverse engineer your targeting, starting with sales responsiveness and then working backward to your optimal consumer target." - Valeria Maltoni

"The generation rolling through schools right now understands computing and they’re generally skeptical of free offers and too-good-to-be-true bargains. Whether or not they’ll be able to see the risk of a browser knowing exactly what they like remains to be seen." Serendipity - I wrote about Kindle Fire as well last night. - Valeria Maltoni

"We live in a very goal-oriented society in America (and especially in New York), but achievement is not the same thing as happiness. When my son was about five, I took him to a skating party. He had trouble staying up on his skates and hated it. I encouraged him not to give up, but then he said about the wisest thing I ever heard: “Dad, I don’t have to be good at everything.” I say that to myself sometimes now." - Valeria Maltoni

"Too many marketers don’t have a clue how to have a conversation with a customer or prospect through social media. Either they tweet or post their tired old marketing messages, or they deal with customer service requests. But marketing messages designed for mass media channels are inappropriate for social media channels." - Valeria Maltoni

"Designers often strive to make things as simple as possible for the user, but are there ever situations in which too much simplicity becomes disempowering and creates dependencies in the long term? Should personal technology (hardware or apps) be designed to encourage the user to think and engage, rather than passively accept defaults?" - Valeria Maltoni

"People say we’re no longer manufacturing in America. We’re actually manufacturing more than you can believe, but we’re so good at it that there aren’t as many jobs anymore. Where we dropped the ball was not reinvesting in their human beings. Corporations used to have training and development programs and sadly, those disappeared. There’s a whole generation in corporate America who have never been to a corporate training program." not investing in people is the elephant in the room - Valeria Maltoni

"*Are routinely exposed to an "insane" variety of outsiders who offer constant stimulation and direct challenges to conventional organizational/marketplace wisdom" - Valeria Maltoni

"We know that words are relatively easy but we wanted to act quickly to demonstrate our support. As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do." - Valeria Maltoni

""Think Different" might have been the new campaign slogan in 1997 but "convert zealously" was the new call to action. Steve Jobs raised the practice of persuasion to an art form." - Valeria Maltoni

"Comments offer you an opportunity to communicate with the author, or provide an alternate point of view to something he or she said. If you talk over that person's head, and rebut someone who's not even present, well -- that's just plain disrespectful." It's 2011 and we're still talking about this - boooo - Valeria Maltoni

"“…. Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic. It is a learned ability. It had never occurred to me that if no one taught us how to think this way, we would not think this way. And yet, that’s the way it is. Obviously, one of the great challenges of an education is to teach us how to think.”" - Valeria Maltoni

"As with all norms, the espoused beliefs don't mean much unless they are backed by what people do -- especially during the little moments." - Valeria Maltoni

“Italy already has perfectly fine laws against defamation, and this proposed law overreaches dramatically. I have never heard of any law like it anywhere else in the world.” The decision for this week’s blackout, he continued, “was taken by the Italian community in part because they felt that there was no genuine avenue for protest in the mainstream media without a bold action.” - Valeria Maltoni

"In other words, not only does the programme misrepresent the psychology of lie detection, but this has an effect on the psychology of the viewers themselves." - Valeria Maltoni

"In a sense, that sentiment is the common thread behind each and every movement in the Metamovement — a sense of grievous injustice, not merely at the rich getting richer, but at the loss of human agency and sovereignty over one's own fate that is the deeper human price of it. It's one thing for institutions to fail — as in fail to deliver the goods — but for them to punish people for attempting to pursue prosperity reaches beyond failure." - Valeria Maltoni

markets are emotional and addicted to things other than sound business practices - Valeria Maltoni

"will we see A/B testing on images in the near future?" - Valeria Maltoni

"I think we are going to see some sort of reform in this area. Imagine going to a website and seeing a “ratings” of some kind which shows what they are doing with your data, similar to how the movie world uses different types of ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, MA). A little icon or graphic which shows if your data is being sold, transferred, stored, etc. I think I’d like this – and folks like Apple who take leadership positions with App Stores would have to roll this out next to each app I download. I’d like to know what’s happening with my data." Ditto - Valeria Maltoni

"So while Silicon Valley is enabling an ever-more-intrusive role for networks, how about occupying a bit of Silicon Valley, as a reminder that users are people, just like they are. And that turnabout is fair play." - Valeria Maltoni

"why not show what the 99% is capable of by getting together and applying all those dormant skills to larger projects? The thing is – this is already happening all around me. Many of my friends put in around 20 hours/ week on passion projects or working with a creative collective. Branding the overwhelming majority of the country is a strange task, but I think it should start with showing what people are capable of, and what they’re already doing." - Valeria Maltoni

"If you're knocking someone down to make yourself feel better you are absolutely being a jerk." - Valeria Maltoni

Back to the future? These were my career assumptions early on... - Valeria Maltoni

"The main problem “on the ground” seems to be agencies and their ignorance and/or lack of expertise and knowledge around call-based advertising." - Valeria Maltoni