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Meet the New Twitter!

Nikos — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:18:51 +0000

This is the new Twitter! I’m really excited about the new design, logo, features and UI of the new Twitter. It seems that you cannot manage multiple accounts (maybe they will add this later) but the new design is really good. You can now view pictures, videos and other media in your streamline.

What I see is that Twitter cannibalizes its partners. Tweetmeme lost many users after Twitter launched their own ‘tweet’ button. Now, users don’t have to go to Youtube and Twitpic but view the media files on twitter.com.

Anyway, take a look on the amazing video that they created! I want some of these blue paper birds!

The new Twitter design will be rolling out slowly to everyone. Some will get it tonight!

You can learn more about the new Twitter, here.

Don’t be a spammer! – Email Marketing

Nikos — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:00:41 +0000

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 I see every day on my screen.

Anyway, the reason of this post is a video that they posted today on their blog. They talk about the story of “Rudy”, an Email Marketing guy who spams people in order to satisfy his boss. For you that are working in the email marketing (or you want to know more about that) take a look:

Mailchimp has also a Blip.fm account where you can subscribe and listen to their music selections. Good job guys!

Branding lessons from Lady Gaga

Nikos — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:03:20 +0000

Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is 24 years old (!) and she is an American pop singer-songwriter. But she is not just that. Lady Gaga is a person that in only 2 years became one of the most successful brands in the world! Newcast by Vivaki came out with a slideshow that explains why all the brand managers should imitate Lady Gaga in branding strategy. These are the five lessons from Lady Gaga:

Tell a consistent story
Engage your fans in a conversation
Connect the content
Fish where the fish are
Reinvent business

You can also view the video version here.

The 99 percent – Making Ideas Happen

Nikos — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:32:43 +0000

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 and now is a website with videos, articles and tips on how to make your ideas happen.

The creation of 99%, which was launched with our inaugural conference in 2009, sprung from the belief that, as creative professionals, we often focus too much on idea generation and not enough on execution.

There are several inspiring videos on 99%. Seth Godin talks about quieting our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. Jack Dorsey talks about Twitter’s success and Threadless founders say: The Do-First Work Ethic. Take a look on the 99% latest videos.

Stop thinking and start making this brilliant idea come true!

Wordcamp 2009 in San Francisco.. It was great!

Nikos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:23:11 +0000

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 speakers. The list of the speakers was long and very interesting!

More than 700 people attended the event. There were very interesting presentations. John Lilly the CEO of Mozilla spoke about Firefox and the use of blogs. Chris Pirillo talked about Online Communities and Tim Ferriss talked about his blog and his experience with WordPress. The two most exciting presentations were the ones from Matts! Matt Cutts and Matt Mullenweg rock! The one is an expert of Google SEO and page rank and the other one is the CEO of Automattic (WordPress)

Pictures of the event and the video with the highlights!

Chris Pirillo talks about Online Communities

Nikos — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:13:05 +0000

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 Pirillo’s one about Online Communities.

But who is Chris Pirillo?

Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He’s a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, and has authored books on business and personal technology. Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience. (WordCamp.org)

Take a look on a part of his presentation.

A post about WordCamp 2009 is coming….

Ellen DeGeneres Commencement Speech 2009

Nikos — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:38:34 +0000

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..

Our lives in 10 years according to Microsoft

Nikos — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:10:01 +0000

This is how Microsoft sees the future.. Everything will be digital, everywhere touch screens and huge connectivity! It is interesting and scaring too!