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My LeWeb

Posted in Events, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I have been thinking for the past two days which were my  gains, if any, from my participation to LeWeb. Listing a fair amount of   gains is the best defense for an event that has received a fair amount of criticism so far. Inexistent wifi,  scarce food and a cold room were sure a nuisance [...]

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The Calacanis effect: 1st AWS Athens meetup

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , on October 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »

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 [...]

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Nothing lives on until you declare it dead: the web 2.0 case.

Posted in Business, Startups, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Meeting Jason

Posted in Business, People, Startups, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Crowdsourcing blogposts

Posted in Business, Ideas, Social media, tagged , , , , , on August 4, 2008 | 13 Comments »

Smashing magazine is running a contest to find new professional writers and is giving a MacBook Air as a prize. While I was contemplating whether it would make sense for me to participate in the contest, I started thinking about the general issue that a high profile/traffic blog or site encounters: how to find and [...]

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Short urls contest: bit.ly versus urlborg

Posted in Startups, Technology, tagged , , , on July 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The past few days there has been a lot of buzz for  short urls. First, it was the announcement that tinyurl will support custom aliases for shortened urls, to make them more readable and memorable (see here). Yesterday, it was the launching of a new short url service, bit.ly, that brings lots of new features [...]

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Plurkmania: statistics for plurk (Updated)

Posted in Startups, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Plurk, the recently launched microblogging service, with the uncommon timeline interface, and the features considered by many as childish (: funny emoticons, karma, and karma related ‘creatures’) is not exactly the favorite of A-list bloggers. Despite  the considerable amount of people that joined it, plurk remains in the shadow of the more ‘serious’ twitter and [...]

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identi.ca: Is there a business model for federated microblogging?

Posted in Business, Ideas, Tech News, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Image via Wikipedia In the past two days a wind of optimism blows over the tech blogosphere: identi.ca, the  microblogging service of Evan Prodromou, made  it’s debut,  throwing the dice for two very important issues: Scalability  and innovation. Scalabitity has been tantalizing twitter to the point of causing a mass user exodus. Twitter competitors (Pownce, [...]

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Startups by the sea: the OpenCoffee/Techcrunch event in Athens

Posted in Events, Startups, Tech News, tagged , , , on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

My home country is renown for two things: its antiquity and its islands (a favorite destination of millions of tourists in the summer). Yesterday, I think, we started to change this picture, a bit. We did not eliminate the sea element, but we scrapped the views that Greece is an ancient country with no startups. [...]

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Soundsnap: a free-sounds repository

Posted in Startups, tagged , , , on June 25, 2008 |

A twitter friend pointed me yesterday to Soundsnap, a new site that offers tons of free sounds. Never before have I  bothered to check the existence of this type of sites, so I don’t know whether this is a novelty or not. But, being a  podcaster, I run to check whether the material is available [...]

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