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Wii jogging

Here is another application that combines real world with computers. Wii jogging is an application for Wii that allows you to go for jogging at Tokyo using Google Streetview. You are jogging at the actual roads of Tokyo, in the middle of the roads (you don’t...

Athens Startup Weekend

It’s really hard to start writing such a blog post on 1:45 AM Saturday night, but the time is perfect for the thoughts I would like to share. Since Friday I participate in the Athens Startup Weekend event. I am on a team with Stefanos Vasdekis and Dimitris...

Hungry or angry? Dog eats car:)

I was really trying to figure out how to name the new category that this post should fall into. I believe I found a good name: “Hard to believe”. The slide show below shows how I found my car after having it parked on a road in an area called Vrilisia, at...

Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

Last week I did a presentation on Amazon Web Services meet up in Greece. During the presentation I showed how you can start an AMI of fedora 8 base, install apache, php and mySQL and make them all store their data on an EBS volume. This attracted a lot of attention...

Microsoft launches Azure, a cloud computing platform

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....