Archive for 'Internet'
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
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 [...]
Continue Reading
Promoted Tweets – How Twitter will make money
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Nikos.
For the last four years, Twitter makes no money. Today (Tuesday 13, 2010), Twitter announces its Business Model! Promoted tweets are coming in your Twitter feeds even if you use a Twitter client (third party application). Twitter can analyze your tweets, keywords, searches, followers and lists and serve you targeted ads! Promoted tweets also have [...]
Continue Reading
Rentalic.com – Rent. Share. Be Green
Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Nikos.
This is a cool idea. It’s a brand new website that was launched 10 days ago. In Rentalic.com you can share your guitar, camping tent and iPod dock with others and get some money. Do you need some speakers for your party this weekend? Don’t buy them.. Just rent them for just few dollars. About [...]
Continue Reading
Expedition 206 – A 2010 Social Media campaign by Coca-Cola
Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Nikos.
It was about time to see a Social Media campaign coming from the number one refreshment drink in the world. Coca-Cola Company, one of the top global advertisers (mostly in Print and Broadcast media), is going to use Social Media to promote the happiness message around the world. Three guys from Germany, Belgium and Mexico [...]
Continue Reading
The Weak Shop – Viral Marketing Campaign
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
This is a great idea. The BC Dairy Foundation (British Columbia, Canada) created a new campaign to promote the power of milk. They created ‘The Week Shop‘, an online (and offline) store that sells products for people that are ‘weak’ due to lack of milk consumption. There is a YouTube Channel, a Flickr account and [...]
Continue Reading
Yahoo Brands, Logos and Services
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
I guess that most of you have noticed or read about the change in Flickr‘s logo.. Yahoo recently added “from Yahoo!” next to Flickr logo in order to enhance its brand through this very successful image and video hosting service. What yahoo did is very reasonable and it might help the company’s brand. Apparently this [...]
Continue Reading
Blog Action Day 2009
Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Nikos.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One [...]
