Archive for 'Websites'

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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Brands in Public by Squidoo

Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Nikos.

Do you know Squidoo? It is a company that Seth Godin founded and “gives you a simple way to gather, share, and spread information on a topic you care about.” Visit the Squidoo.com and create your lenses! “Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about [...]

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It’s You! – The new Yahoo global campaign

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Nikos.

There is a quite big buzz these days about the first campaign of Yahoo! The It’s You campaign will be placed on every media channel (TV, print, web etc) and it will be the first time that Yahoo is advertised globally. The cost? $100 million for the next 18 months. Apparently the new CEO, Carol [...]

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Volkswagen Innovations – Interactive Advertising

Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Nikos.

Volkswagen Innovations. This is a great idea from Volkswagen. Do you know what is TSI, Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Assist and Park Assist? Yeah.. Some of us might know about them but not everybody. So VW created a very interesting website with clear design that explains this new technology through funny games. Visit the website [...]

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