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International Judo and #Bitcoin at the NYAC; Satoshi Nakamoto? Discipline,...
Judo has been my school of life for the last 30 years, and it gave me the best friends in the whole world. This past weekend, I spent Saturday at the New York Athletic Club with long time friends John...
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My Organic Cycle of Women's #DigitalLiteracy, #Sustainability and...
I am a board member of the Women's Annex Foundation and I have made Women's Digital Literacy, Sustainability and Community Building my priority. I was honored by the words of Gopal Ratman on his...
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The Film Annex Organic Affiliate System now live on all Blogs and Videos
Dear Reader,If you are not logged in on Film Annex, you will see on the right side of the screen this box: If you decide to register through the box above, if the box is located on the page of a blog...
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@FilmAnnex new User Interface and #Bitcoin MarketPlace Launched this month...
Great work by Film Annex's Web Artisans on the new Film Annex User Interface! Check below a screenshot from my own. You can also log in to Film Annex and enter the Beta version of your profile. This...
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BuzzScore measurement tool for users quality; Film Annex Advertising Network
The advertising industry based on page views and user eyeballs is obsolete. Until now, no third party company can provide "constructive" solutions. This is an unsustainable business model for all...
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.@FilmAnnex, a Digital Land of Opportunity, #Education, #Vocation and...
Film Annex"The Social Media That Pays," has created a Digital Land of Opportunity where the key to success is the Digital Literacy of the users to best navigate the ever evolving landscape. With...
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The Parrish Art Museum, a strong hold of the arts and continuation of the...
This week, I had the pleasure to meet and interview several local community leaders and administrators in Southampton and Watermill, New York. During the interviews, we discussed the importance and...
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Citizenship, Education, Entrepreneurship and Development Without Borders
Life is a complex series of events that shapes our personal and business existence. A complex aspect is to make this series of events and wisdom understandable by younger people, especially when they...
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Bitcoin, Women's Annex Foundation; some smart decisions of 2014
Bitcoin are the bricks and measurement for a new digital world, a new land populated by productive and creative members. You can measure your personal digital wealth and impact in the world of...
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Technology and Financial Equality with Blockchain's Digital Currency. Film...
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Jarek Budny, a controller and development expert for a leading technology company with several billion dollars in revenues. Jarek mentioned that...
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Digital Literacy with Bitcoin & Mozilla Phone; Vocational training for...
Today, I had a great meeting with Shawn Sloves and Julian Jacobson of Atlas. We discussed the launch of BitSovereign.com as a global platform to trade Bitcoin, Litecoin and local currencies for a...
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Why Consumer Product companies should support Women's Digital Literacy,...
Two years ago, I decided to contact Ms. Roya Mahboob and Fereshteh Forough in Afghanistan to support their business and empower women like them for a better future. I did it out of my personal drive to...
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Would the Medici Family invest in Bitcoin? Why Digital Real-estate,...
Entrepreneurship and financial wisdom go hand in hand. Risk and reward are at the basis of human success. The Medici family took serious entrepreneurial and financial risks from the 13th to the 15th...
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This Summer's travel to Italy, a lesson from Livorno, "Leggi Livornine"
Last week, my family and I left New York City for our summer travel to Italy. We had a comfortable flight from New York City to Pisa, a seasonal flight by Delta that we have been taking for nearly 10...
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Orosei, Tavolara and some great Tennis lessons and Sardinian inspiration
This is the continuation of the article: "This Summer's travel to Italy, a lesson from Livorno, Leggi Livornine". Yesterday, my family and I traveled to the Gulf of Orosei for an incredible boat tour...
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Tavolara, Molara and the Gulf of Costa Dorata, grazie Pietro!
Excited by the previous evening in the Kingdom of Tavolara, we decided to join Pietro again on his boat to visit the gulf of Costa Dorata, just below Porto San Paolo. Our adventure started at noon and...
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BRANDED MESSAGE > Engagement > Rewards > SALES, the @bitLanders ecosystem
August is a special month for me and my family. I got married in August. My wife, my son Stefano and I were born in August. And we launched www.bitLanders.com in August 2014: After 9 years of online...
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Are you and your company in the World of Avatars? If not you better get...
The World of Avatars is a parallel world of new ideas and opportunities, a new market for companies and a new society for people. James Cameron directed the movie Avatar as his interpretation of this...
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Business is Personal!
For me "Business is Personal", and a very personal trip into people's lives.My father Roberto taught me this from when I was a young child, as his office was located in our home. At times, in spite of...
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bitLanders, a Very Very Sticky Ecosystem made by Italian Geniuses
BitLanders is an organic ecosystem where 340,000 influencers with 125 million fans and followers spend an average of 15.28 minutes per session and have a bounce rate of 0.09%. Other sites have...
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Rusty Konokogi, an inspiration for Judo, Modern Olympics Principles, and...
Rusty Kanokogi is an inspiration for people all over the world. Even though she passed away on November 21st 2009 at the age of 74, she is still fresh in my memory. In 1992, I moved to NYC. I have...
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bitLanders partners with Forensiq to "Relentlessly fight Ad Fraud", support...
Three years ago, I had the pleasure to watch a NATO video of a business woman in Herat names Roya Mahboob. Since that day, we built 11 classrooms and 2 IT Centers in Afghanistan, connected to the World...
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Banker Vikram Pandit of TGG Group on Digital Currencies - Bitcoin
Bloomberg TV's Question : "Are you a Bitcoin believer?"Vikram Pandit's Answer: "I am a believer in the fact that whether it is the virtual currency or the services that are around, the virtual...
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Thanksgiving from Afghanistan, with Roya Mahboob, Sheryl Sandberg, Biz Stone,...
Spiderman says: “With power comes responsibility.”After nearly 10 years of being successful in Online Film Distribution, Social Media and now a new Gamification technology @bitLanders, I thought I...
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Brain Power, source of Energy and Sustainability - The EdyEdy presentation at...
Today, I had the pleasure to attend a great conference retreat event at the prestigious Metropolitan Club, organized by Mr William Doll, Founder of The Syneidesis Group. I was there in support of Roya...
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Celebrating International Women's Day with Afghan Girls & Entrepreneurs....
Today March 8 is International Women's Day. This morning, I had the extreme pleasure to read an article by Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown and her brother Jason Brooks Brown published in the magazine Salon,...
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Breaking the glass ceiling with Judo and Education, the New York Open Judo...
On Sunday March 29, the Women's National Judo Teams of Cuba, France and the USA will face each other at the New York Athletic Club for the 2015 New York Open Judo Team Tournament.Olympic sports like...
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The 2015 New York Open Judo Team Championships - My perspective
The 2015 NY Open Judo was an absolute success. Over 1,000 people attended the event. Thousands more were able to follow it real time via social media, making this the most popular Judo event of the...
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The Ciompi Revolt, the New Renaissance with Bitcoin - My perspective
It is the beginning of March 1378, and Bicci called me in a meeting to talk about his cousin Salvestro De' Medici and his intention to support the Ciompi, lower class workers, originally limited to...
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BitCharities is connecting Charities to Bitcoin and empowering people to...
Today, in the world, there are an estimated 7.3 billion people and growing. More than a third of the world's population lives with less than $2 per day. How can this part of the population join the...
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The HUMONGOUS Judo Data Base with Bitcoin Rewards on BitLanders
Judo is an Olympic sport practiced in nearly every country in the world. In the 2014 World Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 98 countries participated.bitLanders launched this week the Judo Bitcoin...
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bitMiles on bitLanders, WSJ article by Michael Casey
On July 2nd 2015, Michael Casey of the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled "BitBeat: How Bitcoin Technology Could Shake Up the Loyalty-Points Business." Mr Casey mentioned bitLanders and...
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"She is so Italian! Love the emotions!"
Today after I witnessed the little Roberta Vinci take down Serena the Giant in a loud Irish Bar near Fulton Street, filled with Firemen and Construction worker, I run out to grab my car and drive...
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Women Education can help to resolve Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris confirm the necessity to analyze even further the role of women in radical religious communities. Each one of the terrorists has a mother and some have sisters....
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Response to Nathan Glaser and Sergio Doretti about how Women's Education can...
Yesterday, I posted an article titled “Women Education can help to resolve Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism.” Female students attending the Digital Citizen Fund classroom in Qowaye Chahar...
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The new Opera del Duomo Museum, how did Renaissance influence your life?
I moved to the USA in 1990 and never lost my Florentine accent; when people meet me they ask where I am from, I usually say, "Florence, the capital of Renaissance". My answer sparks a light in their...
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bitMiles, a direct, truthful and transparent tool of communication between...
I'm seating on the Delta flight from NYC to Rome, traveling to Florence, Italy for a short surprise visit to my parents with my older son Edoardo, 9, almost 10. I will be back in Manhattan on...
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Today I was talking to some friends about my name card and I was asked why I have only my name on it; I explained that lots of different things happened in my life and was easier to summarize them with...
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Conversationalism for Brands
Conversations are an important aspect of human interactions. Brands struggle to establish meaningful conversations when they approach customers and brand ambassadors. I am from Italy, and Italians are...
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Brand Loyalty wasn’t built in one day
Search online the word “Loyalty” and you will read:loy·al·tynoun: loyaltythe quality of being loyal to someone or something.synonyms:allegiance, faithfulness, obedience, adherence, homage, devotion...
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We don't make the Brand. You Do.
Last night while watching the Super Bowl #50, one specific ad caught my eye. It was the Jeep ad with the portraits of the people who made Jeep the icon it is. The ad is here below and it ends with a...
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Reach and Inspire, the Art of Conversation
In today's world, billions of people are constantly connected through the Internet. This constitutes an opportunity for companies who are willing to establish direct relationships with people around...
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33rd New York Open Judo Tournament, looking to the future
The 33rd New York Open Judo Tournament was held yesterday, March 20th 2016 at the New York Athletic Club. It was the 6th edition as a Team Tournament with both female and male teams competing for this...
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The men behind the stage of the 33rd New York Open Judo Tournament
On March 20th 2016, for the 33rd time, the NYAC Judo Club run the New York Open Judo Tournament, for the 6th year in the form of an international team tournament. The event was sold out a few days...
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The Three Musketeers at New York Open Judo Tournament
The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexander Dumas set in 1625. Athos, Porthos and Aramis are the names of the three main characters in Dumas' novel. Their contemporary names are Mel, John and Arthur....
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You, You, You, and Me
New generations are often accused to be self absorbed and motivated by the Me, Me, Me philosophy of life. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram flourished off the concept of personal...
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Mel, Mel, Mel.
“Mel, Mel, Mel, come on! We don't have the money for all those teams! Lets be reasonable!” This was more or less the beginning of a conversation about 5 years ago between Mel and I; I was not happy...
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Experience sports, consumer products, mobility concepts, and chat with Querlo
Saturday was an interesting day. It started off as usual, I taught 4 classes Judo to younger children at the New York Athletic Club (www.NYAC.org), ages ranged from 5 to 12 years old. The great thing...
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Querlo, a chatbot with a heart, conquering Dubai
My visit to Dubai is coming to an end after 10 days in this city, I took this trip with the same attitude I took in 3 decades of Judo, aggressive and perseverant. The Getty Images photographer...
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B-U-T technologies, evolution of Cognitive Mixed Reality. A future Querlo...
The visit to Dubai included some interesting discoveries, one of them was meeting Mr. Wim Bonjean, Chief Creative Technologist of B-U-T, a cross media interactive agency with offices in Dubai, Belgium,...
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