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Introducing Videoblast.it – Our new project!
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by Nikos.
Recently, we launched Videoblast.it. An easy way to share a favorite moment within a video! With Videoblast.it you can create a unique customized page with your video and comment. You can even control the specific time your video will start! After you create your videoblast go ahead and share it with the ones you want. [...]
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My interview with Slideshare
Posted on 18. Dec, 2010 by Nikos.
Last week, I was interviewed by Kit Seeborg for a post in Slideshare‘s Blog about Sustainable Life Media’s channel. Here’s what I had to say: We recently caught up with Nikos Sarilakis, Online Marketing Manager for Sustainable Life Media, the leading producer of sustainable business conferences and educational events. We asked Nikos how Sustainable Life [...]
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Yahoo! – The “Bus Stop Derby” idea
Posted on 26. Nov, 2010 by Nikos.
If you live in San Francisco, you must have noticed the new Yahoo! interactive ads in few bus stops around the city. (Currently at 20 high-traffic bus stops) At each one of these bus stops there is one 72-inch touch LCD screen that allows the commuters to play games and compete other neighborhoods. Players earn [...]
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Meet the New Twitter!
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by Nikos.
This is the new Twitter! I’m really excited about the new design, logo, features and UI of the new Twitter. It seems that you cannot manage multiple accounts (maybe they will add this later) but the new design is really good. You can now view pictures, videos and other media in your streamline. What I [...]
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Don’t be a spammer! – Email Marketing
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Nikos.
There are few services that I love to use. One of these is Mailchimp. It’s a great Email Marketing platform that you easily use and have fun! It’s the company that when you send an Email campaign, it tells you: “Great Job Nikos, have a banana!” These are some of Freddie’s (the chimp) messages that [...]
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Branding lessons from Lady Gaga
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Nikos.
Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is 24 years old (!) and she is an American pop singer-songwriter. But she is not just that. Lady Gaga is a person that in only 2 years became one of the most successful brands in the world! Newcast by Vivaki came out with a slideshow that explains why [...]
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SF Startup Weekend
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Nikos.
It was my first Startup Weekend and it was a great experience! On Friday (07/23/10) night we were more than 100 people with tons of ideas about websites, web and mobile applications. We spent the whole weekend there and we came out with quite good projects and interesting pitches. Our idea was Shipox and got [...]
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The 99 percent – Making Ideas Happen
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Nikos.
It’s one of these times that you find a website that you like. You add it in your bookmarks, you watch all its videos, you buy the book and you even buy one of its notebooks. The 99 Percent is not about ideas.. It’s about making ideas happen. It started in 2009 as a conference [...]
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Sustainable Brands Conference 2010
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Nikos.
Lateral Thinkers to be Welcomed at SB ’10 Sustainable Brands 2010 – Where the Sustainability & Brand & Design Communities Come Together to Shape the Future. Join 700+ sustainability executives, business and brand strategists, designers, and communications experts who are building brand value through sustainability. Join market-making companies such as Hewlett Packard, Bumble Bee Tuna, [...]
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Web 2.0 Expo 2010 – San Francisco
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Nikos.
For one more year, O’Reilly and UBM Techweb co-produced a very successful conference on May 3-6 in San Francisco,CA. One of my favorite presentations was the one from Drew Houston (Dropbox) and Adam Smith (Xobni) with the title: “From Zero to One Million Users” This is their presentation: Many great keynote speakers and some of [...]
