Comments for Giovanni Calabro

Comment on Associated Press Search Landing Pages by local_god

local_god — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:22:51 +0000

You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view

Comment on Writing for Fast Company! by Claire-Juliette Beale

Claire-Juliette Beale — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:25:54 +0000

Hi Giovanni,
Loved your first article for Fast. It prompted me to look into e-books as a way to reduce the need for bookshelves, be more green, etc.. The idea of carrying x hundreds or thousands of books on a light book-size device is very appealing. I was quite surprised, and disappointed, that my hunger cannot be satisfied. I first looked into Kindle, due to ability to buy/download Amazon books. Much to my surprise Kindle does not allow handwriting (notes, etc.), which is such a big part of a productive / professional reading experience. Neither does iPad apparently (correct me if I’m wrong). It’s rather strange considering the stylus is not a new invention and there are devices out there that allow designers to draw on screen for instance. Samsung devices do offer this handwriting ability but book supply seems limited. So it looks like there’s serious opportunity for improvement/next gen device.
Best,

Comment on Funny Rabbit! by Decent Discussions

Decent Discussions — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:33:25 +0000

A very intresting blog, I found your website on google and thought
I would put a comment. Keep up the good work

Comment on Red Bull Adding to the Italian Stereotype by Mary

Mary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:46:47 +0000

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Comment on Funny Rabbit! by mick

mick — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:31:24 +0000

This made me lol just when I needed it. Thank you for posting it.

Comment on Yaz Birth Control "Clarity" Commercial by Lana

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Comment on Billy Bob Thornton Worst Interview Ever by SonyaSunny

SonyaSunny — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:24:06 +0000

Hi there,
Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.

Thank you
SonyaSunny

Comment on Newsrooms and CMS Selection by Giovanni Calabro

Giovanni Calabro — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:45:19 +0000

With the other author mentioned in the entry…yes. It was a proprietary system put in place in a fairly painful manner. Thankfully there were much smarter people in place to make it work.

As a line of work I now architect and design products using many across the board. I’ve worked on everything from Drupal and Joomla through Vignette and SDL Tridion.

I see your point about more support being available for open source products. The danger I see however, is hiring a support company to rectify a problem that might be a result of customizations rather than hiring the company who’s product it is. There’s much more at stake for a product company to service you appropriately (My company screws up and I lose potential reoccurring license costs for example). Therefore I’m much more comfortable leveraging non opensource companies to support their products.

Comment on Newsrooms and CMS Selection by jason

jason — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:57:08 +0000

many open source cms’s are starting to have support – drupal being a fine example. many companies exist that provide support for drupal.

did you ever decide on a cms?

Comment on Boost Mobile Pigs by Jimmy Grabasser

Jimmy Grabasser — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:05:22 +0000

Nice! Pork is awesome!