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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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Adobe CS Live is.. live!
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Nikos.
The Adobe CS Live services have just been launched. (8pm PST) Go here and start using them with your Adobe Account (free). Here you can see some screenshots of the new Adobe CS Live services: Tweet
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Sustainable Brands Boot Camp
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
Sustainable Brands Boot Camp –13 week online sustainability training program intended to get business professionals up to speed on what they’ll need to be competitive and sustainable. Brought to you by the producers of the Sustainable Brands Conference. Participants will learn from some of the world’s top sustainable business practitioners. Each of our faculty members [...]
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Google Wave – The future of Email and IM
Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Nikos.
Today Google announced its new upcoming product, Google Wave. The two well known brothers (Lars and Jens Rasmussen) were working on this project for the last 2 years in Google’s office in Australia. Google Wave will be available later this year and it will be a combination of email, IM.. It reminds me the iPhone [...]
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Umbrella Today? – The simplest weather forecast website!
Posted on 28. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. [...]
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Obama – the New President of the US
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Finally! This is the new President. A historic day for all the Americans! A historic day for the whole world! Yes, we did! Barack Obama, gave a great speech in front of 200,000+ people in Hyde Park, Chicago,IL. He appeared in front of the people, that were waiting for hours there, with his family… Obama [...]
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The 30 minute ad of Obama
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
Today at 8pm was live the 30minute Obama’s ad. It was the most expensive ad in the history. This ad was on the air simultaneously in the channels FOX, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, UniVision, BET and TV One. The cost of this ad was approximately $3-$5 millions! Tweet
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Layoffs in US tech companies!
Posted on 24. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees. Total Layoffs: 36 Total Employees: 19,556 Company Date Location # % Source Haute Secure October 23, 2008 Seattle 3 50% TechCrunch XeroxCorp October 23, 2008 world-wide 3,000 5% WSJ Cake Financial October 23, 2008 30% internal [...]
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New Logo for Pepsi
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
It’s new logo presented Pepsi, a part of the big plan of repositioning its brand, with a cost of $1,2 billions. The circle with the blue and red smile created in 50′s but PepsiCo wants to create a different logo for the three major sodas. PepsiCo created different smiles for Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi [...]
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Red Bull SoapBox Race at San Francisco
Posted on 19. Oct, 2008 by Nikos.
The 8th Red Bull SoapBox Race took place in San Francisco yesterday. Red Bull began this event in 1997 and since then and every year Red Bull SoapBox Race takes place in many cities around the world. Yesterday San in Francisco, there were more than 75,000 people to see the 34 teams that participated in [...]
