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I call it “Relief”

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , , on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

IE6 and IE7 in between 10 and 20%? I call it “relief”. And I also call it, “not fast enough”. Still, IE6 being used more than IE7 is a kind of a perversion. The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

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Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog

Posted in Social media, Tech News on October 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog. I am really impressed by this feature. And the reason I am writing this post is to explore the capabilities. Does the twitter character limit apply? Can I upload pictures and videos? Update 1: The character limit does not apply as you can testify from this post

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Safari 4 scores 100% on Acid3 test

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , , on February 25, 2009 | Comments Off

Impressive, isn’t it. The good thing about it is that it will accelerate standards compliance for all browsers.

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New identi.ca rocks

Posted in Tech News, tagged on January 23, 2009 | Comments Off

Today identica rolled out a new, well, a new bit of everything: new version, new interface, new functions and features, new optimism on the field. It’s been sometime since I last checked so I am not 100% sure what was already there and what appeared today, but I am pretty sure that the ‘groups’ are [...]

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Techmeme vs Google

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , on December 4, 2008 | Comments Off

Just read the news: Techmeme will abanbon its three year legacy of aggregating tech news in an automated way and become a hybrid (human eidited -auto aggregated)  news site. I gave a quick look to how techcrunch and readwriteweb present the news and I bed to differ in my judgment. IMHO the main reason that [...]

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Akismet goes Statistic!

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , , 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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LHC = Large Hacker Collider

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , on September 13, 2008 | Comments Off

When  the scientists in CERN pressed the button to kick start the experiment of the century that is widely feared as the Doom’s day come, they, in fact, accelerated to the speed of light the ambitions and the animosities of a small greek hacker group against another. Because, contrary to what Roger Highfield of Telegraph [...]

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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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Technorati authority for wordpress.com blogs

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

This has been bugging me for sometime now: how to display the technoratiy authority in a wordpress.com blog? The chicklet provided by Technorati is, of course, working with Javascript, which means is useless for wordpress.com blogs. Technorati has a rich api, but it requires some programming to use it. The solution cannot be programmatic, as [...]

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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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