Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Cloud computing is one of the hottest industries right now. There are several companies already offering services like Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Slicehost, Gogrid and Aptana.
Today Microsoft launched Azure, a cloud for applications designed for Microsoft Products. Azure is available for free at this time through the CTP program. Pricing will ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Today is a big day for EC2. Many great things happened:
* Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
* There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
* Microsoft Windows is now available in ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
During the last open coffee event in Athens, Jason really inspired us with his speech. His most valuable advice for us was to team up and create new start ups. He mentioned a few tools that can be used to have a web company up and running with almost ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Google has just released a product that allows adwords advertisers to build their own banner ads. This really reminds me old days with sites offering banner bulding services and banner templates. Not very different but the visual results look quite good. Let's see how effective these ads are. Obviously Google ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
According to Engadget, NeuroSky will be launching a device that will be able to measure brain activity for $50-$80 by spring of 2009. The device is able to measure concentration levels so they are also building some games that make use of it (trying to distruct you). Would you think ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Yesterday I met Jason Calacanis while he was in Athens for Stream and Open Coffee events. We had a fantastic discussion and learned a lot about mahalo and how it works. Since I have been dealing with SEO for many years (started in 1998) I can guarantee that this is ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Dell Ideastorm is a communication tool that connects Dell customers with the company. It's a great innovation and I think that all companies should have a tool like this for their customers. Customers can submit ideas to Dell and vote for them. Once an idea reaches the top, Dell considers ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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Empty Leg flights are private jets that fly "empty" when returning home. LunaJets negotiates with carefully selected jet operators who meet strict safety criteria, to allow you to “jump†...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
I used to use this app a lot once I had my Nokia N95. When I upgraded (was that really an upgrade?? lol:)) to an iPhone I really missed this app. Basically it allows you to to skype calls and chats. Calling works only with WiFi though (on N95 it ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Google launched today an antique search engine which only searches in pages that were in their index till 2001. You can find it here.
That link along brought me mamy memories of the past.
My first serious and successful internet startup was back in 1999, called Usfaz.com (view the non-graphic version of ...
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