Question. Is there any mobile version of giusec's blog? Answer. Noo. Author is too lazy. You know. But here are a couple of services to make a mobile version out of your MT or Wordpress or whatever blog.

Just go to the following web sites, enter your blog's URL and the game is over. You will get a text-only, light version of your blog, ready to be dowloaded on your mobile/PDA/smartphone.

• Google's mobilizer service [link]
• Mobile leap [link]
• IYHY.com [link]
• Skweezer [link]

So, as an example, here is the giusec's blog mobile version generated with Google service (no images option).

If, instead, you really want to make your blog mobile-friendly in few minutes (well, this is what the author states) just click on this link and follow's Mike Davidson's suggestions.

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Web-Trend-Map, uploaded by giusec.

InformationArchitects publish the Internet Predictions for 2007. Exec summary:

1. Apple keeps its iPod monopoly and increases its OS 5% market share to 5.1%
2. Google scores against Microsoft and Yahoo due to its massive marketing data advantage
3. Blogs bloom, and prepare for the 2008 election
4. Social networks become a place where members make money
5. Newspapers open up
6. Big ad investments start streaming in
7. New Internet focused ad agencies open up
8. Viruses and spam become an even bigger hassle
9. Yet Digital ID initiates a major change that makes the web more reliable, user and investor friendly
10. All in all 2007 is a preparation for the big infolution in 2008 

The full post is here, via IA.

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As I wrote on my previous post on del.icio.us, I will now explain how to automate the link posting. Better, we will see how to post daily del.icio.us links to your Movable Type (or Wordpress) blog. Following this procedure, del.icio.us bookmarks will automatically show up on your Movable Type blog, once every 24 hours. Good examples of the output are: Micropersuasion (Steve Rubel), Macchianera, my blog.

First of all, open your account on del.ioc.us. Once you are in, start with the process.

1. Go to del.icio.us/settings/[your_username]/daily where your_username is the login name used to enter to del.icio.us services. In my case, as an example: del.icio.us/settings/giusec/daily;
2. start to fill the empty fields (see following points);
3. job_name: This can be whatever you like, just give it a name. Important: this is not the post title. It's just a name. I called my first one "giusec Links";
4. out_name: your MT login.
5. out_pass: your MT password.
6. out_url: this is the absolute URL of mt-xmlrpc.cgi script and will depend on the software you use. For MT users is usually http://[blogname]/mt-xmlrpc.cgi. In my case, http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi. For Wordpress it should be something like: http://[blogname]/xmlrpc.php (I am not a WP expert, sorry);
   
7. out_time:  is the time you'd like the links to be posted every 24 hours. The value should be between 0 and 23, based on GMT. For Central European Users (like me; I live in Milan): GMT = CET+1. I have this set to 2 GMT, so my post will be generated at 3am;
8. out_blog_id: Should be 1, if you have only one MT blog. Otherwise log into your MT control panel, click on the entries icon and look at the URL. My URL is: http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt.cgi?__mode=list_entries&blog_id=2. Well, blog_id is = 2;
9. out_cat_id: this one is optional, if you want to categorize your automatic posts. You should be able to find the ID by logging into MT control panel and clicking the Categories icon.  Put your mouse over the Category you want to choose and look at the URL. You will get something like: http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=category&blog_id=2&id=8. Well, the blog_id is 2 and the Category_id is 8.

Now you can Submit your Query and simply wait for the automatic post (of course you are supposed to add some links to your del.icio.us list in the next 24 hours). Sleep well.

References:

• Lifehacker
  
• Commoncraft
• How now, brownpau 

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• Frank Barnako's Media blog
  (tags: blog internet marketing technology web business finance media)
• LorenzoC : web, tech e altri farfugli
  (tags: blog)
• Sergio Maistrello Blog
  (tags: blog giornalismo)
• AIGA - Symbol signs
  (tags: symbols signs)
• Thumblicious: see the sites - viewing popular
  (tags: del.icio.us Blogging aggregator web)
• Dr. Metablog: "Geographical Dyslexia," or "Directional Disability," or, People Who Lose Their Way
  (tags: orientation directional giusec)

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First. The long list of bookmarks and tags published on the previous post has been generated automatically from del.icio.us; I will explain how to automate it for your blog in a later post.

Said that, let's talk about del.icio.us. Everybody knows (or should know) what del.icio.us is. From the site about:

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website - the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

In few words, you can store your links and favourites (bookmarking), online; they are accessible from everywhere; they can be shared with other del.icio.us users (that's why social). If you want to see giusec's del.icio.us page just go here. If you want to add giusec's bookmarks to your del.icio.us network, just click here. Finally, you can use giusec's del.icio.us links on the right column to review my bookmarks or to add my blog to your network at any time.

If you are a Firefox user (you are, right? you are?) you can add del.icio.us icons to your browser toolbar, simply downloading and installing the useful del.icio.us plugin for Firefox.

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• mitchell's blog
  (tags: blog firefox mozilla open-source)
• How to Post Daily Del.icio.us Links to Your Movable Type Blog
  (tags: del.icio.us movabletype howto blog Blogging bookmarks)
• ShotCode.com
  (tags: mobile shotcode phone technology internet marketing)
• LiveMarks
  displays new links as they are added to del.icio.us
  (tags: del.icio.us bookmarks aggregator list)
• Blogniscient
  (tags: Blogs blogosphere blog aggregator technology news)
• Blog Usability: Top Ten Design Mistakes in Weblogs (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
  (tags: usability blog design WebDesign blogging web marketing)
• Del.icio.us daily blog posting
  (tags: del.icio.us blog blogging howto tips)
• How to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog - Lifehacker
  (tags: del.icio.us tips bookmarks blogging howto)
• Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection
  (tags: del.icio.us tools web2.0 web list aggregator)
• Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward
  (tags: blog software automation)
• Frank Barnako's Media blog
  (tags: blog internet marketing technology web business finance media)
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
  (tags: google spreadsheet documents docs)
• del.icio.us Bookmarks | Firefox Add-ons
  (tags: firefox del.icio.us extension internet)
• How to Change the World: The Entrepreneur's New Year's Resolution: "I Will Fix My Pitch"
  (tags: business marketing plans VC startup howto)
• Web 2.0 Magazine: Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites
  (tags: Web2.0 list links web reference internet technology)
• Hack Attack: A guide for switching to a Mac - Lifehacker
  (tags: mac Apple switch)
• links for 2007-01-01 ► Macchianera
  (tags: blog del.icio.us tips blogging)

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This is not the first time I write about urban (or metro or place or local or hyperlocal) blogs. I did many times already on my Italian blog (we have, in fact, many examples of local blogs in Italy; you can find a - not exhaustive - list here, via Axell. Unfortunately, all of them are in Italian).

There are two brand new local blogs aggregators now live: Placeblogger and Outside.in. David Weinberger explains shortly and clearly the difference.

Lisa Williams' PlaceBlogger launched today. It aggregates blogs that are about the places where the bloggers live. Unlike Steve Johnson's Outside.in, it is hand-assembled and it focuses on bloggers writing about where they live; Outside.in maintains a list of placebloggers but it also aggregates posts about places no matter the location of the people who wrote them. That gives PlaceBlogger a certain intimacy and the potential to seed local communities of bloggers, while Outside.in is better site if you're trying to find everything said about a location. It also means that, especially at the outset, Outside.in has more stuff, while PlaceBlogger feels a bit sparsely populated (...)

I've just registered (you have to do it manually) giusec's blog with both sites. Are you aware about other placebloggers (not necessarily US-based) aggregators?

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This is great. How to create a list and ask your readers to vote the best item. Take a look here, on my italian blog. List has been created with Squidoo. The entire process is simple and short. It takes about five minutes. Anyone can add this feature to his blog. See also another great example, here, via Seth Godin's blog.

Basically all you have to do is creating a Plexo list with Squidoo (first, you need to create your own account). Whatever kind of list. Then, generate the related code. Finally, insert the code on your post.

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Every blogger should have one. At least. Talking about moleskines. Yes. The legendary notebooks. The ones used by European artists and writers. I actually do have three: one for my job, one for private stuff, and one for quick traveling notes. And now, the new MoleskineCity notebooks are on the shelves. Milan. London. Rome. Paris. Barcelona. And many others. 

Also, brand new blogs have been opened by Modo&Modo, the italian brand producing Moleskines. This is the Milan blog, for instance. Paris, Rome, London are already live. Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam will be live soon.

The first guide you write yourself. I bouthgt already my Milan moleskincity notebook last weekend. And I see this as another great marketing idea coming from the Modo&Modo/Moleskine team.

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comScore Networks conducted a research over blog penetration among web readers. It seems that - guess what? - Italians read blogs less that all other Westerners do, with the exception of Germans. In fact:

Among the eight countries examined in the study, Canada saw the highest penetration of visitors to blogs, with 58 percent of all internet users visiting the category in October 2006. Half (51 percent) of all internet users in Spain also visited blogs.

And:

Of the selected countries, only Germany (26 percent) and Italy (31 percent) had a lower penetration of internet visitors to the blogs category than the United States (36 percent).

Here the full research and tables. 

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(Italian) Blogosphere, by giusec.

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Leaving children's gifts under the Xmas tree is a tipical Italian tradition. Well, not just children's. Leaving a post under a Xmas tree is another well established Italian tradition. Blogging tradition, this time. This is the story, in few words.

Sir Squonk collects all posts from Italian bloggers. He aggregates them, combines them, consolidates them (that's the reason why he's called the living aggregator), pdfs them. This is the result. Post sotto l'Albero 2006 (literaly: Posts under the Xmas tree 2006). If you understand italian: download and enjoy it.

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If you like stats - better, if you like webstats - this site is for you: Compete. Also, Bill Gross and his company run a very interesting blog. It shows examples of what you can do with Compete.com. Like comparisons. Or business cases. Take the Southwest example. Interesting, isn't it?

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This is the blog of giusec (simple, uh?). The guy behind this funny nickname is Giuseppe Caltabiano. Italian, 38 y.o., he actually lives in Milan (Milan-Italy, not Milan-Texas), Engineer, got an MBA at SDA Bocconi, works as a responsible for marketing in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) for a US-based software company and travels all around US, Europe, Africa and Middle East because of his job (and leasure, some time).

giusec writes about business vagabonding (the way he likes to call his professional life); locations, places, people, cultures, languages, hotels, food. He also writes about Milan, the city where he actually lives, with his wife and his micro-daughter (Asia, 16 months-old). And he is fascinated about some stuff, like: blogging, marketing, software, high tech stuff, Movable Type and social networking.

giusec started blogging two years ago. Here you can find his Italian blog (giusec&frienz). He decided recently to switch from Italian to English. In fact, he loves languages. He's now planning to start a new blog in catalan and a fourth in sicilian dialect.

giusec RSS is here (atom) and here (RSS 2.0).

giusec can be contacted (yes, he can be contacted): 

• via email: giusec at yahoo dot com
  
• always via email: giusec at gmail dot com
  
• via MSN Messenger: giusec at yahoo.com
• via Yahoo!Messenger: guess what? giusec at yahoo dot com
• via ICQ: never used ICQ
  
• via Skype: giusecnet
  
• via Google Talk: giusec at gmail dot com 

giusec also owns a Flickr account, where he uploads pictures of Milan, his family & friends, the beautiful little Asia and his many trips around the world.

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