Milan Clinches the 2015 Expo

Milan Expo 2015

In an odd show of political unity, right wing Letizia Morrati, and left wingers Massimo D'Alema and Romano Prodi got together in Paris, along with Al Gore to promote Milan's bid for the 2015 Universal Exhibition (Expo).The green-theme, hence Gore's presence, plus supporting music by Andrea Bocelli … [Read more...]

Blog from Italy meets Volette.com

I met up with Nevadan Joe Tangredi, the guy behind travel site start-up Volette.com, and his Italian cousin Giuseppe, here in sunny Milan yesterday afternoon. Giuseppe works for Endemol, the tv production company, which makes a whole host of programs for Italian TV.Joe, an ex-Capitol Hill … [Read more...]

Far too late!

I should be in bed, but I've been exchanging emails with an American web entrepreneur who is coming over to Milan shortly, and thinking about how I'm going to have a go at helping out an interesting German sculptor, one Jochen Kitzbihler, who is a friend of Gianpietro Carlesso's, incidentally.Very … [Read more...]

Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?

Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy's top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and … [Read more...]

Pasticceria Scarpato – Nice cakes, shame about the website

I won't say how I found out about the site of Italian biscuit and cake maker, Scarpato, but I decided to check it out. Well, I do like Italian food and one of the aims of this blog is to do a little promotion of all things Italian.So, off I went to have a mosey around.What I found was a very … [Read more...]