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The Openfund-selected start-ups.
Today, The OpenFund anounced the selection of the first series of start-ups. Four promising companies: crawdout.com (with an “a”, that’s right), youscan, fashinating, and my favorite, listiki. Keep an eye on listiki -I think it ca...
rssCloud and file sync
Lately, I’ve been testing services like dropbox, sugarsync, etc. The reason is bucket3″: 1. I’d like to have a “local” copy of my content and be able to add or update it, 2. then have it automatically synced to my serve...
my dream blog engine
Let’s say I could have my dream blog engine. How would that be? – it would let me easily copy the whole blog to a new server when I decide to change hosting providers. – I wouldn’t have to worry for database or other updates...
Suggestion to Friendfeed and Wordpress
How I'd like to integrate Friendfeed and my blog. It's not hard. But there are some pieces missing....
FFDirect 0.7.0
FFDirect 0.7.0 is out. Most notable new feature is the automatic polling of friendfeed for post “likes” and comments. The results are included in the HTML body of the post (unlike other similar solutions, that use javascript). If you like...
help me test the next version of FFDirect
I’m testing the next version of FFDirect. It will automatically insert a link to the corresponding friendfeed entry at the end of a post, and will also pull friendfeed comments and likes. (I’m using version 0.6.1 here, it’s not publ...
pulling FF likes and comments back to your blog. or not?
It’s been a subject I debate with myself. Do I want the activity that happens around a post of mine in different places around the web pulled back to my blog? For example comments left on friendfeed, of tweets linking to my post? YES. Yes. I...
FFDirect 0.6.0 is out
FFDirect has it's own "friendfeed client ID" now!...
using FFdirect to track friendfeed genetrated traffic
Making the most out of FFDirect by enabling URL auto-tagging for Google Analytics....
ffdirect v0.2
I’ve fixed some bugs in FFDirect, please upgrade to v0.2. I’m also working on a couple of ideas to make the plugin make the best out of friendfeed, like how is the body of the content better presented and adding auto URL-tagging for Googl...
FFdirect wp plugin for friendfeed
I’ve just released version 0.1 of FFDirect! Images included in your articles should show up in your friendfeed posts. Here are some, for testing: Any link to an audio file (.mp3, .wav, .aac) will also appear in your friendfeed entry, using the...
web services should ping my blog back
The newest Wordpress plugin from BackType brings web activity back to your blog. It scans sources like Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed, Reddit and other blogs, and brings conversations regarding your posts back to your blog as comments. That’s a good...
understanding URL shorteners: compression, power and attention
TechCrunch asks if url shorteners are evil. URL shorteners are just lossless information compressors. Much like a zip function compresses information, in the same way URL shorteners compress a URL. No information is lost, but we need more resources ...
CBS, Hulu, WAKE UP!
I’m delighted with my boxee-enabled apple tv. It’s great. One of the features I like most is that I’m able to watch tv series not available in Greece (I live in Greece). Like Comedy Central, for example South Park -I don’t mi...
my wordpress tags and categories dissapeared! (and here’s why)
Suddenly, yesterday, all my categories and tags disappeared from my blog. It was as if I had never tagged any posts, and never used any categories. I couldn’t even see the default category in the admin panel! Here’s what went wrong. I had...
Twittastic
Twittastic, is a Twitter client meant to do it better for most of the users. It’s meant to be simple to use, without sacrificing features. The interface is a cross between a classic IM application and the Twitter webpage itself. Try Twittastic Blee...
delegating your OpenID to creativecommons.net
I read Joi’s post on creativecommons.net OpenID and I much liked the idea. After all, if I have to trust someone for my OpenID authentication, CreativeCommons sounds like one of the most trustworthy providers. However, since now, I used my own ...
posting from python to WP
For the last couple of days, I’ve been experimenting with a new format for my podcast. During the day I record little “audionotes” on my mobile phone. At the end of the day I move these .wav files to my MacBook Pro and use a bunch o...
Hackers attack LHC (some more details)
According to the Telegraph, Hackers attacked the LHC. Since the whole message they left was written in Greek, I feel that I have to explain some of the things written in it: 1. The attack was not an act against LHC or CERN, but just as they write, &...
Google Maps feature request: add time dimension?
Wouldn’t it be nice if Google added an extra dimension to Google Maps? One that would allow us to “go back in time” and see the previous versions of the maps? Here is what I have in mind. Say, I want to see how a forest, a city, a g...
Obama’s experience in politics
How much experience in politics does it take to keep the whole of US media in the dark, regarding your VP candidate name, when every single news network is after this valuable piece of information? How much experience does it take to pick the right ...
QR codes from urlBorg
If you need a QR code for a short URL created by urlBorg, just add ‘/qr’ at the end of it! Here is how it works: 1. The short URL is http://ub0.cc/43/c 2. The QR code image is http://ub0.cc/43/c/qr and you can use it like this <img sr...
IronBolt: a destop app that shortens URLs
Still in alpha, but looks great! Check out more at IronBolt homepage....
how to avoid multiple short URLs in urlBorg API
The urlBorg API will normally create a new short URL each time the ‘create’ method is called. There is a good reason for this, but many devlopers have been asking for a way to reuse already created short URLs. I just added a new option th...
“economy” is not a smart-sounding metaphor!
Chris Anderson is right: we should stop using the word “economy” as rhetorical smoke when we describe non-monetary markets and start measuring them like the economy they really are. I’m not an economist, and many of the words used i...
twitter/identi.ca/etc: XMPP and SMS
I think SMS gateways should be just another XMPP client for twitter/identi.ca. Telephony providers could implement them and charge their users (that also may happen to be existing clients) for the SMS sent and recived. It makes so much more sense, in...
urlBorg vs. bit.ly
Sounds like the latest url shortener, called bit.ly, got a lot of attention. As an answer to my rant, that you have to involve an a-lister to get some attention, my good friend Nikos stepped forward and did a crash test: bit.ly vs. urlBorg. To be hon...
The commenting standard of the future (my suggestion)
My suggestion to Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future is a very simple, tried an decentralized solution: Add an extra “comment tracker” URL to any comment form and trackback to this URL the content of the comment, th...
Mike Butcher, editor of Techcrunch UK, in Athens, Greece
I just got home from the 13th OpenCoffee Athens meeting. What was special this time was Mike Butcher’s presence (editor of Techcrunch UK). It was a great night, with many interesting presentations from greek startups. Here is what Mike told me,...
Matt Mullenweg @ Greek Blogger Camp 08
Matt talks about the future of wordpress, at the Greek Blogger Camp 08, held at Ios island, last weekend. via metablogging.gr. BTW, GBC08 was great! If you don’t believe me, have a look here!!! You should join us next year...
