Where is the head office of Volunia located?

Where is the head office of Volunia located?

The Volunia project has been entirely developed in Italy: the head office is located in Padua, the servers are located in Sardinia and hosted by Tiscali, and the whole team, formed by 14 people, is Italian.

When did The Volunia search engine come out?

Volunia was a web search engine (or social search engine) created by Massimo Marchiori. It was launched in beta only for registered power users on February 6, 2012 and went live on June 14, 2012. Volunia, dubbed as “the search engine of the future”, was speculated to be based on Hyper Search technology.

What kind of projector does a planetarium use?

Many planetarium projector manufacturers, as well as the planetarium staffs themselves, created specialized SFX projectors to display different visuals, such as the one visible galaxy—Andromeda—shooting “stars,” comets, and other celestial phenomena.

Where did the name of the Moon Volunia come from?

The name Volunia stems from the words “volo” (flight) and “luna” (moon), because – as Marchiori says – he wanted to evoke the quantum leap his social search engine was trying to deliver.

Is the Volunia project going to be open source?

Back to the Volunia project: the (only) positive side is that after the legal struggle, the creator is at last going to get back the whole project code, which will be soon made open-source, so to let other people freely reuse the wealth of code and algorithms developed at the time. Stay tuned for the code, and good luck with your ideas!

How is Volunia trying to shake the technology world?

With Volunia I have tried to shake the technology world by changing the way we see and navigate the web (each web site is viewed under a city metaphor, and the navigation model becomes visual and much more informative), and how we socially interact with people during our search and navigation process.