Image by nikan_gr via Flickr Jason Calacanis urged people gathered to listen him in the last Greek OpenCoffee, to abandon their isolation, form groups of common interests and advance and thrive on cooperation. Half jokingly, half seriously, he appointed John Nousis, cofounder of the Zuni student social network, as the one responsible for a meetup [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Calacanis effect: 1st AWS Athens meetup
Posted in Events, tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, Jason Calacanis, Zuni on October 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
iPhone vs G1 Android vs Blackberry Storm vs Nokia 5800
Posted in Technology, tagged Android, iphone, Nokia 5800, T-Mobile on October 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today, as I was reading my feeds, I came across this post of Louis Gray “The Future of Social Media Is Mobile, Unified and Transparent”” something that I strongly believe too. Later on, scanning the technology page of Blogsearch, I discovered this very interesting piece of news from profy:“T-Mobile Presold 1.5 Million G1 Android Phones. [...]
Google yourself and see … your past item sharing!! (???)
Posted in Technology, tagged google, google reader, search, Search Engines, semantic web on October 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Quite accidentaly I stumbled upon some search results that look very weird to me: I googled my name/nick in various forms and started browsing the result pages. As to be expected, I found samples of pages from all the social networks I am registered in, but, from the page 10 of results onwards, I started [...]
Nothing lives on until you declare it dead: the web 2.0 case.
Posted in Business, Startups, tagged amazon, Cloud computing, crash, Dot-com bubble, Web 2.0 on October 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Image via Wikipedia The comparison of the current financial crisis with the thirties is a commonplace for bloggers and mainstream media alike. Yet, extremely few, if any, of those making the comparison were born, lived through or near the time of the big crash in 1929. And as history teaches us that history does not [...]
iPhone irritations
Posted in Technology, tagged feeds, iphone, itunes on October 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is what happens if you try to subscribe to a feed with iTunes through iPhone/iPod Touch. Ridiculous,isn’t it? Apple does not allow subscribing to feeds through its devices even for its own podcatcher!
Meeting Jason
Posted in Business, People, Startups, tagged Jason Calacanis, Startups, Techcrunch50 on October 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday I met Jason Calacanis. He was attending the Stream 2008 unconference in Athens,Greece and the opportunity was ideal. The meeting wasn’t by chance though. I learned about his coming through some Twitter friends and sent him an email asking for an interview. He counter proposed that I should go to Stream and videotape the [...]
Media Manager for WordPress
Posted in HowTo, tagged media, tips, Wordpress on October 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From time to time, I like to write a kind of how-to or tip post, usually a result of tweaking the tools and services that I use. Here is a little one for wordpress. If you have used before an open source CMS, what you probably are missing in wordpress is the media manager functionality [...]
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Akismet goes Statistic!
Posted in Tech News, tagged Akismet, Comment Spam, spam, Wordpress on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Care to know how much spam you missed? Not really. But it is an educating exercise nevertheless. And if you happen to have a hosted wordpress blog, then Akismet, the spam filter, can be of use as Akismet now comes loaded with stats. Since I happen to own one [...]
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