I’ve been reading today about Twitter’s new User Streams API. Well I have to admit that I am a bit outdated on tech news since last week, because I went to Mt. Seli staying at the home of a friend of mine for mountain biking. I am catching up (I was reading only Gruber’s feed from my Reeder app in iPhone.). Anyway, my first thought is: this is big and looks promising.
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tutz.gr, ένα blog γεμάτο tutorials και tips
Άλλο ένα blog στο Ελληνικό Internet γεννήθηκε πριν λίγες μέρες. Το όνομα αυτού Tutz και το περιεχόμενό του tutorial και tips για ότι μπορεί να βασανίσει τον απλό χρήστη υπολογιστή στις μέρες μας!
Why (and how) many teens are moving out from Facebook
I was the first to opt-out Facebook from my buddies. Since early June I am (one of the few, I have to say, millions of the so called “Western civilization—society” worldwide) who deactivated their Facebook account without any thinking of returning back. Lately, I see a few other friends to deactivating their Facebook accounts and some others who haven’t ever registered for a profile.
New Flickr photo page and a few thoughts
In it’s latest blog post, Flickr announced it’s new photo experience for our photos aka photo page redesign. This is great news for photography geeks around the world, and not only.
5 bookmarklets που θα πρέπει να έχεις
Bookmarklets είναι εκείνα τα μικρά bookmarks φτιαγμένα με λίγες γραμμές Javascript κώδικα, τα οποία δίνουν αρκετά websites για να διευκολύνουν μια λειτουργία τους. Προφανώς όμως, δεν τα χρειαζόμαστε όλα. Τον τελευταίο καιρό έχω καταλήξει σε 5 από αυτά τα οποία είναι εξαιρετικά χρήσιμα και time-savers.
How To: Add Gravatar support to your WordPress comments
I’m tinkering the whole morning with a WordPress theme and I’m trying to customize it. I made also a separate subdomain in order to play, edit and test themes and WordPress hacks. So, unfortunately this WordPress theme had not Gravatar support out-of-the-box. Therefore, I searched and found a very simple way to implement Gravatar to your WordPress comments.
DIY Powder, new personal side-project
You probably know that I’m an alpine ski athlete and my greatest passion of all is skiing. Well, add a WordPress blog, some ski movies and do the math.
Web 3.0: A story about the Semantic Web
What will be Web 3.0? Why we should build it and how? Is it real possible? Make the world digital or make the machines able to understand the world? This is one, is one of the deepest questions in Western philosophy. This short documentary by Kate Ray tries to answer this questions; or at least make you think about them.
Foursquare, Yahoo!, Microsoft και το Facebook
Ο Στέφανος έγραψε για τις φημολογίες οι οποίες ακούγονται περί εξαγοράς του Foursquare από την Yahoo!, με το ποσό να ανέρχεται στα $100,000,000. Microsoft και Facebook λέγεται πως έχουν καταθέσει και αυτοί προτάσεις, ενώ οι VCs θέλουν να συνεχίσουν να ρίχνουν λεφτά στο τραπέζι. Η κατάταση μοιάζει περίπλοκη, ενώ είναι και εξαιρετικά κρίσιμη για το μέλλον.
Creative hacking of Facebook’s Like Social Plugin
It was just yesterday when Facebook announced their new plan of personalizing and controlling the entire Internet, by rolling out several new key-features and additions in the Facebook ecosystem. One of them, is the Like social plugin. It enables users to make connections to your pages and share content back to their friends on Facebook with one click. But, out-of-the-box it’s not the way it’s described.
