Category Archives: misc

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 … read more →

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 … read more →

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 … read more →

“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 in … read more →

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 … read more →

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 … read more →

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, the … read more →

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 … read more →

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