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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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…
Change the web, Social Entrepreneurship and a new 80/20
Some days ago I got glimpse in twitter of the Change the Web challenge. I took a look at it, to discover the underlying Social Action web site and its API. The Challenge was about using this API for a…
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Posted in Ideas, Personal, Startups
Nothing lives on until you declare it dead: the web 2.0 case.
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…
Meeting Jason
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…
Short urls contest: bit.ly versus urlborg
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…
Plurkmania: statistics for plurk (Updated)
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…
Startups by the sea: the OpenCoffee/Techcrunch event in Athens
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…
Soundsnap: a free-sounds repository
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…
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