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 →
Why you should strive to be a professional amateur
Yiannis, a web designer and friend of mine, launched recently a new Tumblelog. No big deal, just a personal digital notebook of thoughts, videos, pictures and stuff. Neat and nice. In a Twitter conversation we had, I asked him why did he start this new blog. Continue Reading →
Γιατί αργεί το launch του 4sqwifi iPhone app
Το App Camp τελείωσε στις 19 Ιουλίου. Έχει περάσει δηλαδή ένας μήνας ακριβώς από τότε που — υπό κανονικές συνθήκες — το 4sqwifi iPhone app θα έπρεπε να είχε γίνει submitted στο AppStore της Apple. Δυστυχώς για όλους μας, το submission καθυστέρησε, καθυστερεί και θα καθυστερήσει για λίγο καιρό ακόμη. Continue Reading →
Thoughts on App Camp Greece
The first App Camp in Greece finished on Tuesday 19/7. It was two weeks of coding, fun, caffeine, bugs and debugging, lots of work and positive experiences. As a geek with ideas ready to be deployed, I couldn’t miss it. It all started on Monday, the 4th of July and lasted two weeks until Monday the 18th. On Tuesday the 19th there was the final demo night—more on that later. Continue Reading →
Boothchat.com, procrastination reinvented
I’m at Kafenai now (again) and blogging (again). After some casual tweeting and a Foursquare login, I checked Boothchat to see what’s going on now. It’s so addictive that in fact I’ve logged in in Boothchat and snapped a quick photo. The chat caption read, among others, “It needs an iOS app, now” (and a tweet, too). But what in SFValley is BoothChat? Continue Reading →