July 7, 2009 by foldierteam

Mind the Bridge is an organization devoted to bridging the entrepreneurial spirit (and investments) of Silicon Valley to the untapped start-ups of Italy. Mind the Bridge has created a sPression that captures the news of innovation and entrepreneurship and utilizes the widget feature to display interesting news and content within the organization own blog: mindthebridge.blogspot.com.
At Mind the Bridge they use foldier to find interesting news about innovation, start-ups and entrepenurship. For example we get this YouTube video provided by 10 Downing St. “Celebrating Innovation“, or this interesting article “How Stanford’s Knight Fellowships are revamping for innovation” about how university-based fellowship programs can trigger innovation across the world. A must read!
The foldier widget in Mind the Bridge’s blog contextualizes the greater goals, interests, and ideals of this organization with the current news surrounding the main topic of their blog.
We at foldier share the goal and vision of innovation and entrepreneurship embodied by “Mind The Bridge”, in fact because some of us come from Italy we passionately support the mission of promoting and developing Italian best business ideas around the world.
We highly recommend reading Mind the Bridge’s sPression and blog.
The foldier team.
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April 30, 2009 by Michele Ursino
It’s not difficult to find interesting sPressions. We’re always looking. One that we have had our eye on for a while is Mara’s sPression about cinema. Mara has recounted her trips to various movies that have come out and provides us with a little review along with a trailer or a bit of the movie itself.

Mara sPression about Cinema
Our personal favorite is “Who framed Roger Rabbit” or in italian “Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit.” We have not viewed “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in a very long time, but it remains “un classico” in Italian or in English. Personally, we love the translation of the character voices from English to another language and see how if it does change the movies interpretation or not. Of course, Mara has reminded us all how great “Roger Rabbit” was in any language.
The foldier team
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April 24, 2009 by Michele Ursino
foldier is great and can really change the way someone stays informed and keeps friends and colleagues up to date on a specific topic. But creating a very effective sPression and unleashing the full potential from foldier requires a little bit of skills.
Here are a few tips to create and maintain your sPression that should help in collecting the right type of links and articles:
- When you create a new spression keep it simple at first. Use few and general keywords related to your topic. Try to capture the main sources that will deliver the initial content.

- Give your sPression a week or so and then check the Suggested Sources. Do not hesitate to click on the delete button at the right of the source when the suggestion is not relevant or interesting to you.

- Refine your Search Terms for your sPression. Just click on the Settings button for your sPression and add more keywords in the “sPression Search Terms” text field. These keywords serve two purposes: (a) they filter everything incoming to your account and collect interesting articles and links for your sPression; (b) they help foldier in searching new potential sources of information.
Give it few days and you will see new sources matching these terms being recommended for your sPression.

The foldier team.
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April 15, 2009 by Michele Ursino
With the constant drama in the current political landscape, it is easy to overlook the greater political spectrum. When properly instructed, foldier helps by constantly finding new information about a particular subject. This is the case for Jennifer De Marco. She is tracking the environmental policies and the progression of these policies during the Obama administration. You can be more informed about these issues and you don’t have to read a plethora of sites and to find the right article – “How Green is Obama?”

How Green is Obama ?
Just recently Jen found an article from the New York Times (”Obama. Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change. Turns More Cautious“) looking into the Obama’s recent statements about the environment. The article highlights whether Obama is being coy about his intentions for environmental policy change or whether he does not have the political clout or will to proceed for environmental change. Jen asks, “is the Times is stirring things up or are they really onto something?“
Jennifer collection does not merely focus on the American landscape of the environment, but looks at the global perspective of environmental changes. She points out an article from treehugger.com “How Overfishing Almost Got Capt. Phillips Killed by Pirates” creating a link between overfishing in Somalia and the captivity of Capt. Philips. We would have never thought about that connection!
So… how “Green” is Obama really? Just follow Jen’s sPression http://www.foldier.com/spress/352459 and you will get punctual updates on the green policies of the new President. We read it every day!
The foldier team
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March 27, 2009 by Michele Ursino
We here at Foldier love to program, write complex SQL queries, and spend endless amount of time on our own sPressions, but we are human and we need a break from our laptops.
The Wii is our choice for unwinding.
Luckily, we do not have to go far for the newest information on the Wii and upcoming releases for it.
Lorenzo Nana writes an excellent sPression: “Wii: News, reviews and video from Nintendo World” combining all features from articles to videos.

Lorenzo sPression about the WII
We even love Lorenzo’s spression look and feel matching the Wii’s light blue color.
The foldier Team
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