by nousis | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Development
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 beta form on EC2. * Microsoft SQL Server is...
by nousis | Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Development
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 zero cost. One of...
by nousis | Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Websites
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...
by nousis | Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Gadgets
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)....
by nousis | Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Websites
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...
by nousis | Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | General
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...
by nousis | Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | General
 LunaJets is the first dedicated website which allows you to fly on business jet empty leg flights at a fraction of the price.  Empty Leg flights are private jets that fly “empty” when returning home. LunaJets negotiates with carefully selected jet...
by nousis | Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | General
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 was working through 3G...
by nousis | Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Entrepreneurship
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...
by nousis | Sunday, September 14th, 2008 | People
I met Hans Rosling almost two years ago at Leweb Conference in Paris. While his presentations are really jaw-breaking I admire him for two facts: 1. The way he presents statistics (the software is available at http://www.gapminder.org and also as a google gadget). 2....
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