ImNikos.com » News http://imnikos.com That's me.. What else? Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:49:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SF Startup Weekendhttp://imnikos.com/2010/07/sf-startup-weekend/ http://imnikos.com/2010/07/sf-startup-weekend/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:29:56 +0000 Nikos http://imnikos.com/?p=891 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 the 3rd place! (More to come.. later..)

Flought, a really fun project, was the winner of this idea. You can find more about the teams that participated, here.

These are some of the pictures that I took during the event. The Startup Weekend took place at the Kicklabs Offices, a very cool place! (Look at the pictures)

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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:

]]> http://imnikos.com/2010/04/cs-live-is-live/feed/ 1 Sustainable Brands Boot Camphttp://imnikos.com/2009/10/sustainable-brands-boot-camp/ http://imnikos.com/2009/10/sustainable-brands-boot-camp/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:58:54 +0000 Nikos http://imnikos.com/?p=810 Bootcamp_Banner

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 is a leading sustainable business expert Bootcamp_Buttonin his/her specialty, counseling many of the world’s top global brands about how to step up to today’s market demands and successfully build business value and brand equity by innovating for sustainability.

The course follows Sustainable Life Media‘s 4-step prescription for building the better brands of the future: “Observe, Re-Design, Measure and Communicate.” In just an hour-and-a-half a week, over one business quarter, you and your teams can gain a solid grounding in the core disciplines needed to move successfully in to the new age of sustainable business. Topics include market drivers, business model and product innovation, supply chain partnerships, brand strategy and marketing, metrics, and more.

If you haven’t yet taken the time to give yourself a full orientation to the basics of building a sustainable brand, now’s the time. Sessions are available live and on-demand.

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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 text/SMS structure and the Facebook messages among many people. I am excited about this product.. It will be WOW!

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Take a look on the video of the Google Wave presentation at the IO 2009 event.

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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. The possible results are two. YES or NO! Check it..

Tomorrow in San Francisco we will not need an umbrella!!! :-)

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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 thanked Sen. McCain, his family, the VP Biden and of course the manager of the most successful campaign in history, David Plouffe

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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!

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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
    • CompanyDateLocation#%Source
    Haute SecureOctober 23, 2008Seattle350%TechCrunch
    XeroxCorpOctober 23, 2008world-wide3,0005%WSJ
    Cake FinancialOctober 23, 200830%internal blog
    MercentOctober 22, 2008Seattle612%Seattle Times
    DellOctober 22, 2008Round Rock, Texas8,900Reuters
    imeemOctober 22, 2008San Francisco, CA2025%TechCrunch
    MahaloOctober 22, 2008Santa Monica, CA610%TechCrunch
    TicketMasterOctober 22, 2008New York, NY3005%Billboard.biz
    VeohOctober 21, 2008St. Petersburg, Russia15Silicon Alley Insider
    YahooOctober 21, 2008Sunnyvale, CA1,50010%TechCrunch
    EonsOctober 20, 2008Boston, MA824%Boston Globe
    WikiaOctober 20, 2008San Mateo, California310%TechCrunch
    MerakiOctober 20, 2008San Francisco, CA1020%TechCrunch
    Break.comOctober 20, 2008Los Angeles1112%CNet
    PandoraOctober 17, 2008Oakland, CA20TechCrunch
    ZillowOctober 17, 2008Seattle, WA35TechCrunch
    SearchMeOctober 17, 2008Mountain View, CA1120%VentureBeat
    HeavyOctober 17, 2008New York, NY12Silicon Alley Insider
    JaxtrOctober 17, 2008Menlo Park, CA13TechCrunch
    AppceleratorOctober 17, 2008Atlanta, GA6CNET
    Sirius XMOctober 17, 2008Washington, DC50CNET
    AdbriteOctober 16, 2008San Francisco, CA40TechCrunch
    hi5October 16, 2008San Francisco, CA1513%TechCrunch
    ZivityOctober 16, 2008San Francisco, CA7TechCrunch
    Tesla MotorsOctober 15, 2008San Carlos, CATesla Motors
    Jive SoftwareOctober 14, 2008Portland, OR40TechCrunch
    QimondaOctober 14, 2008Worldwide3,00022%Financial Times
    RedfinOctober 13, 2008Seattle, WA20%Redfin
    SeesmicOctober 10, 2008San Francisco, CA7TechCrunch
    LuluOctober 9, 2008Raleigh, NC2424%News & Observer
    eBayOctober 3, 2008San Jose, CA1,50010%TechCrunch
    Gawker MediaOctober 3, 2008New York, NY1914%New York Times
    Sony EricssonSeptember 29, 2008RTP, NC450Triangle Buisness Journal
    AutobytelSeptember 26, 2008IRVINE, Calif7533%Kelsey Blog
    NeoMagic CorporationSeptember 24, 2008Santa Clara9090%Bizjournals
    NvidiaSeptember 18, 2008Santa Clara, CA3606%NetworkWorld

    Source: Tech Crunch

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    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 Max!

    Some people tend to connect the Pepsi logo with the one of Korean Airlines. Who knows…?

    ]]>     http://imnikos.com/2008/10/new-logo-for-pepsi/feed/ 2     Red Bull SoapBox Race at San Franciscohttp://imnikos.com/2008/10/red-bull-soapbox-race-in-san-francisco/ http://imnikos.com/2008/10/red-bull-soapbox-race-in-san-francisco/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:44:20 +0000 Nikos http://www.redroom.gr/?p=315

    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 the event. The race took place at the Dolores Park, San Francisco.

    The judges decided according to speed, creativity and performance…

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