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Working for a startup

A few days ago I commented on a post by Nikos  Moraitakis about why people should, of all things, want to work for a (greek) startup.  Today,  I read a post by Mike Greenfield, titled “Why Developers Aren’t Interested In

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Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012

Reblogged from VentureBeat: Ben Savage is the founder of Spaceport.io, a platform for mobile game developers. The stage was set with an expected one billion HTML5 phones sold by 2013. Facebook was ready to pave the way. I could repeat

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Mac et al. annoyances

The last few days I am under a spell of bad luck: a near the elbow left-arm fracture, an old spine hernia that came back with a vengeance, confining me to bed the past two days, and, today, a Macbook Air

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Xeni

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Big leap in bio-engineering: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

Reblogged from VentureBeat: Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute — remember the Human Genome project — have simulated an entire organism in software for the first time ever. Using a 128-node computing cluster, a team of

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In search of angels

Earlier today, I read and shared a post which recounted the recent seeding of the, so called, drachma startup (congrats on this) and expressed, in the form of a wish, the following thought: We need a paypal mafia of sorts. There’s

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Bookmeta: a needed update

Yesterday, while I was trying to show a friend the calibre plugin I have created to extract and retrive Greek Book metadata, to my surprise, I saw that it was not returning much. Obviously the biblionet page had changed and

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Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker

Reblogged from VentureBeat: An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above. We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords

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Simon & Schuster is adding QR codes to all its print books. Will readers bite?

Reblogged from paidContent: Simon & Schuster is adding QR codes to the back jackets of all its hardcover and trade paperback titles starting this fall. The publisher hopes to use the the codes to build direct-to-consumer relationships, but will readers

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Reviews: most popular type of blogpost?

Screenshot from the Wordpress tag cloud

I was looking for new blogs to follow and I turned to wordpress “Explore Topics” (http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/) which is nothing more than a tag cloud, obviously aggregated from all the wordpress.com blogs. Now, the tag with the bigger size is “Reviews” which is an interesting insight. Are reviews really the top reason why people blog or is the bigger proportion of blog posts about reviews? This means that out there a treasure of data mining is awaiting to be discovered.

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