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 new innovative web application or widget. For some reason this appealed to me, although I [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Short urls contest: bit.ly versus urlborg
Posted in Startups, Technology, tagged bit.ly, tinyurl, urlborg, urls 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 [...]
Plurkmania: statistics for plurk (Updated)
Posted in Startups, tagged friendfeed, microblogging, plurk, statistics, Technology, Twitter 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 [...]
Startups by the sea: the OpenCoffee/Techcrunch event in Athens
Posted in Events, Startups, Tech News, tagged Business, Events, opencoffee, techcrunch 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. [...]
Soundsnap: a free-sounds repository
Posted in Startups, tagged creative commons, sharing, sounds, soundsnap on June 25, 2008 | Comments Off
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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