Archive for 'Various'
Climate Change – The Root of the Problem
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by Nikos.
First of all, our planet is not in danger. Our planet is not threatened by climate change. Our planet has survived ice age, meteor attacks and a lot higher temperatures than what we are faced with now. It is we – the people ON this planet – who are threatened by climate change. It is [...]
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Problem with decision making?
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Nikos.
There are so many times that you NEED to make a decision. You have multiple choices and you don’t know what to choose. And of course I am not talking about choosing Mexican , Italian or Thai food for dinner. There are crucial and urgent decisions that someone has to take for a crisis. Let’s [...]
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Tech Bloggers and Marketing 2.0
Posted on 25. Jul, 2009 by Nikos.
Recently I attended a very interesting event of SFAMA (San Francisco American Marketing Association) at the offices of Adaptive Path in San Francisco. The subject of the panel was “How Tech Bloggers are Leading the Marketing 2.0 Revolution” 1) Robert Scoble of Rackspace/Building 43 2) Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester 3) Kevin Marks of Google and [...]
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GGU new campaign.. I’m confused!
Posted on 02. Jul, 2009 by Nikos.
Yesterday, Golden Gate University launched its new marketing campaign with the title.. “Shine” I don’t think that this is the best idea that they could find. The previous tagline “Get There” was quite more relevant to an educational organization. But ok.. The “Shine” was approved and we launched it.. What about the website? First of [...]
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Wordcamp 2009 in San Francisco.. It was great!
Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Nikos.
Event: WordCamp 2009 (San Francisco) Date: Saturday 30th of May The ‘WordCamp 2009‘ is the event of the year for the bloggers of Bay Area (and the rest of the world). I was there as a volunteer! I was excited to be there, meet people, help on the event and listen to all these different [...]
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Chris Pirillo talks about Online Communities
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Nikos.
Whoever doesn’t know Chris Pirillo has to watch this video and then go to his website. Chris is the geek master. CNN and hundrends thousands of geeks around the world trust him! I was in the WordCamp 2009 in San Francisco as a volunteer and I listened some great speakers.. One of them was Chris [...]
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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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Ellen DeGeneres Commencement Speech 2009
Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Nikos.
This is the commencement speech that Ellen DeGeneres gave at Tulane University in New Orleans this year. Ellen grew up in New Orleans, but did not go to Tulane. Her speech is funny but inspiring..
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Cool Product Expo 2009 – Stanford University
Posted on 10. Apr, 2009 by Nikos.
Yesterday I visited the Cool Product Expo 2009 in Stanford University. I saw several new ideas.. Some of them were quite complicated and some others were too simple. Most of them were interesting though. Some of the interesting products were the new Yahoo Service “Search Pad”, Cooliris browser add-on, the Hot Topper, NeuroSky and many [...]
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The new Seesmic Desktop
Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Nikos.
Today I attended the launch of the Seesmic Desktop. Seesmic owns the very famous Twitter client Twhirl (1.2 M downloads until today) that is in the top list of clients with Tweetdeck. Loic Le Meur, the founder of Seesmic presented today, at Seesmic’s offices in San Francisco, the new Seesmic project that will (soon) combine [...]
