Lessons learned from launching first app
You don’t know about execution, user experience, product management & design unless you’ve launched something of your own. That’s lesson #1 for me after the ups and downs of launching 4sqwifi on the AppStore the other day. Continue Reading →
My first Silicon Valley trip
The best thing Vienna offered me yet happened during StartupWeek. A Silicon Valley trip. 10 days in Silicon Valley meeting with great startups, founders, Stanford students & professors, investors and interesting people. I said yes, of course. Continue Reading →
Thank you Mr. Jobs, a personal story
I didn’t want to write a post about Steve after his passing, I felt it wasn’t appropriate. The web was —and still is— talking about him, writing thank-you posts, eulogies, opinions and all. Yet, here I am writing about for Steve; a thank you through a brief story of mine. Continue Reading →
Why I love Strava app: a Review
I used to bike a lot. I only rode mountain bikes, on the slopes around Thessaloniki; famous Chortiatis and Seih Sou. After a year or two though, there was a hiatus — mainly because I sold my Scott dirt bike to a friend and lack of funds to buy a new one, plus all the ski and school work. Fast forward in the present, based in Vienna and having bought a new Create single-speed bike (hint: it’s super-awesome) I had to test-drive the Strava app which I found in the summer whilst based in my hometown. Continue Reading →
My thoughts on entrepreneurship, its role in education and what we do about it — StartupWeek 2011
So there I was am in Startup Week 2011 in Vienna. It is a very good event, for which I’m happy to attend. Met very cool people and founders. I am going to write a post about the week anyway — it’s not today’s point — and possibly elsewhere, too. Continue Reading →
The new Timeline, Facebook and why this isn’t Semantics: a short analysis
I am sitting right now on a train from Vienna to Munich writing this on iA’s Writer for iPad (terrific writing app) and thinking about yesterday’s announcements from Facebook while trying to arrange them in human readable form ie. this blog post. I’m also trying to find a good title.
And yes, I already did enable the new Timeline through the, already notorious by now, developer work-around. And no, Facebook is not making its way into the internet of things — nor is it becoming one, nor is even close to the Semantic Web. Why? More on this in a minute. Continue Reading →