Our Story

foldier is the web-based tool for searching, aggregating, organizing and sharing personal content, whether it’s on a personal hard drive or in a Web application.

We have the ultimate operating platform in the Internet. Since there are plenty of interesting applications created every day, what we really need is a way to organize ourselves by capturing references to all our content in one “place”. And we must be able to access and share our content quickly, however much we generate. Most of all, as our content and the underlying data expand, they must be completely searchable.

This is why Michele Ursino established foldier. No matter how many networks and applications a person joins, foldier will scale to include new content organized within a taxonomy created by the content’s owner. The technology (patents pending) links services and applications organically, over the Web, so that people can use them, and the Internet, in the way that suits them best.

foldier works on top of existing technologies to operate through a single web interface. The interface collects and distributes pre-designated information across all types of digital media as well as conventional desktop storage systems. Using search based criteria, foldier “grabs” data precisely and organizes it following the user’s rules, regardless of the original location of the data, keeping everyone’s files updated with the same version. In less than five minutes, the technology enables a person to create a foldier account, install it on a hard drive and begin capturing and sharing all kinds of information. Members can even create RSS feeds to make select content publicly accessible.

foldier’s beta release primarily tests the organization and Web search-and-share functions. The current release features connections to AmazonS3 Web Storage service and Yahoo Search Engine. Subsequent releases will introduce and test foldier desktop, which works exactly like its Web counterpart to connect, search and organize content on a private hard drive; connectors to popular Web applications; enhancements to the user interface; and APIs to leverage other tools’ functionality.

The Team

Michele Ursino founded foldier in 2006 after spending more than 15 years delivering software solutions in the manufacturing and medical sectors. Products he designed address enterprise collaboration, design communication and knowledge sharing. They are sold worldwide. Michele’s positions included Senior Scientist at HT Medical and Vice President of Engineering at Actify, Inc. He currently serves as Director of Technology of BAIA (Business Association Italy America), a trade organization he co-founded. His academic background is in computer science, and he earned his Ph.D. from Politecnico of Milan and his Laurea from Italy’s Universita Statale. Michele is a native of Bologna, Italy.

Matteo Daste is a corporate and securities lawyer and a partner in the San Francisco firm Leland Parachini Steinberg Matzger & Melnick. A native of Genoa, Italy, Matteo also provides advice to clients in international matters involving U.S. and Italian interests. His experience includes serving as a clerk for Chief Justice Charles Springer of the Supreme Court of Nevada. He studied at Taunton’s College and the London School of Economics in England and at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, where he earned his law degree. Matteo is a co-founder of BAIA (Business Association Italy America).