The 2011 Innoforum Workshop is a fact !
This year the focus will be "Social Media" the catalyst for growth and innovation.
As such the 3rd Innoforum will consider the challenges and opportunities of Social Media both from an innovation perspective (i.e., their strategic role in the innovation process and their impact on social and business communications, practices and processes) as well as from a legal perspective (i.e., legal issues and IPR implications that are raised by the new forms of social interaction).
The event will take place on the 18th of March 2011, @AIT premises (Athens Information Technology- Building B7, 19.5 km Markopoulo Avenue,GR - 19002 Peania, Athens, Greece
How to reach us: please visit http://www.ait.gr/ait_web_site/how_to_reach_us.jsp
Language: English
Event timeframe: 09:30 - 17:30
Event sessions: 2 sessions
Fee: No fee
Registration: Required
Further information regarding this event can be found at: http://www.ait.edu.gr/ait_web_site/innoforum3.jsp
You can join the LinkedIn - Innforum community at:
http://tki.me/kKHmzut/innoforum-linkedin
cu there !
Friday, 4 February 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Do you want one million dollars? Just aks for it
Who would have guessed that a simple plea for ....1 million dollars would turn out to be a success ! Yes this is true.
Craig Rowin , a 26 year old comedian from New York, had a dream of making $1 million. So he used YouTube to make his plea “Please give me one million dollars”.
His videos, which are online since last November, depict Rowin’s cry for cash to all millionaires of the world. His request simple "give me one million dollars and I will owe you nothing in return".
After numerous videos in just a few months Rowin found a millionaire from New York who will give him the money in person on February 2nd, live on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, where Rowin, a comedian, often performs.
Rowin will be giving $50,000 to his cameraman and $50,000 to the co-writer of the video series, and with the rest he will buy a new DVD player....among other things.
So one thing is for sure..........you'll never know until you asked.......so start asking !
Craig Rowin , a 26 year old comedian from New York, had a dream of making $1 million. So he used YouTube to make his plea “Please give me one million dollars”.
His videos, which are online since last November, depict Rowin’s cry for cash to all millionaires of the world. His request simple "give me one million dollars and I will owe you nothing in return".
After numerous videos in just a few months Rowin found a millionaire from New York who will give him the money in person on February 2nd, live on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, where Rowin, a comedian, often performs.
Rowin will be giving $50,000 to his cameraman and $50,000 to the co-writer of the video series, and with the rest he will buy a new DVD player....among other things.
So one thing is for sure..........you'll never know until you asked.......so start asking !
Monday, 13 September 2010
Student-created SEO Plugin for the FLOSS community
Recently, the open source Piwik community acknowledged the contribution of our student Victor Dibia (MSIN, AIT 2010). Congrats Victor !
Victor created an open source SEO plugin for the Piwik open source web analytics system, in the course of his Independent study titled: “Web Analytics: Application of Google Analytics API in developing a custom Analytics plug-in”, during Spring semester 2010 (with supervisors Prof. Gregory Yovanof and myself). This new Dashboard Widget displays the website's PageRank, Yahoo Backlinks, number of indexes pages, Alexa rank and the domain age, for the website URL recorded in Piwik. Victor's blog provides all the details that you need in order to use this free online tool.
Piwik is an open source real time web analytics software, that can be installed for free on your website or blog (for further details see the online demo via piwik website). The Piwik system, written in PHP and licensed under GPL, aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.
Piwik is an open source real time web analytics software, that can be installed for free on your website or blog (for further details see the online demo via piwik website). The Piwik system, written in PHP and licensed under GPL, aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
736 ideas 4 a dream
Can we dream the end of poverty and social exclusion ? Can we dream that our ideas will be part of the solution ? Can an EU project consider such a dream? Yes, yes, yes !
It is very interesting to see that such innovative EU projects, do exist. Projects that are about dreams, materialised via open innovation and crowdsourcing principles.
The dream of the "736 ideas 4 a dream project" is to "free" Europe from social exclusion. How they will achieve this? Well, they collect ideas that will help with this task. They have and will continue to organise workshops that will enable them to produce 736 postcards, which will be published as a book and will be presented to the public during the Day of Europe (9/05/2011).
Now, why 736 ideas? The number refers to the number of active members of the European Parliament when the project was launched.
Have a look at the postcards that have been received, they are great !
Further details at the project website.
It is very interesting to see that such innovative EU projects, do exist. Projects that are about dreams, materialised via open innovation and crowdsourcing principles.
The dream of the "736 ideas 4 a dream project" is to "free" Europe from social exclusion. How they will achieve this? Well, they collect ideas that will help with this task. They have and will continue to organise workshops that will enable them to produce 736 postcards, which will be published as a book and will be presented to the public during the Day of Europe (9/05/2011).
Now, why 736 ideas? The number refers to the number of active members of the European Parliament when the project was launched.
Have a look at the postcards that have been received, they are great !
Further details at the project website.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
A Youtube, open, user-generated documentary......that you can join
Ever wondered how different is a single day for different people around the world?Some are happy and some are sad, some are working and some are on holidays, some see the sea and some the mountains, some are eating and some are starving, some are born and some die exactly the same time of a single day on earth.
Could we see all this? Yes we could, if we employed open, user-generated innovation ! Then we would have (provided of course that everyone had access to technology and information):
"One World, 24 hours, 6 Billion Perspectives" says Ridley Scott.
YouTube is planning to orchestrate such a holistic user-generated experimental documentary called: "Life in A Day".
This will be a global experiment aiming to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by each and every one. Yes, you can be a star ! On the 24th of July, everyone has 24 hours to capture a fraction of his/her life on camera. This collective content of millions of user-generated videos will then be edited into a documentary that will be produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald and will be shown at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January.
This is your chance to be part of the 1st global experiment user-generated documentary !
For more information, visit: youtube.com/lifeinaday
R136a1.....the largest ever star !
The discovery of the largest ever star, in the Tarantula Nebula galaxy, was made today !
It's nickname: R136a1 !
R136a1 has been discovered by a British project using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and measured to be several hundred times the mass and several million times the brightness of Sun.
Confused?
Consider this.
If Sun was as large as R136a1, then everything on the surface of Earth would be destroyed ! ......from heat and radiation.
It's nickname: R136a1 !
R136a1 has been discovered by a British project using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and measured to be several hundred times the mass and several million times the brightness of Sun.
Confused?
Consider this.
If Sun was as large as R136a1, then everything on the surface of Earth would be destroyed ! ......from heat and radiation.
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Mobile phones will change our world ....even more
The mobile device constitutes a key component of our multi-channel environment. Acting as a bridge between the physical and virtual world as well as personal space; mobile devices offer endless possibilities both for the individual users and the business actors.
After the explosive growth of social networking via the Internet (i.e., Facebook, MySpace, Orkut), it became obvious that the next phase of this revolution would be mobile social networking. Αs such, what we would consider science fiction a few years ago, is today’s reality - mobile social networks thrive at a social level, while they gain ground in the corporate world. These virtual mobile communities present a market growth opportunity for companies and public institutions that seek to exploit the social interaction and engagement with the user/client/partner/collaborator.
However, do mobile users favor only social networking?
In the past few years we have experienced another social phenomenon, which involves social games (i.e., games of imagination, skill and chance, among others) that are accessible via the Internet from a PC and/or a mobile phone. Games have and continue to be one of the largest and fastest growing categories of mobile content and according to surveys users spend considerable amount of their free time, playing games on their phone.
But is there is a linkage between social networking and mobile gaming?
The "m-Gaming: New User Experience and Market Growth Opportunity" presentation, of Dr. G. Yovanof and myself (presented at the “Industry Days 2010” of the European Lotteries, June 2-4 2010, Barcelona, Spain), provides answers to these issues, while it examines the impact of social networks and games. It describes how the mobile devices have realized the convergence of personal space, with physical and virtual worlds and points out circumstances under which a new generation of games will emerge: “games that could change the world”.
After the explosive growth of social networking via the Internet (i.e., Facebook, MySpace, Orkut), it became obvious that the next phase of this revolution would be mobile social networking. Αs such, what we would consider science fiction a few years ago, is today’s reality - mobile social networks thrive at a social level, while they gain ground in the corporate world. These virtual mobile communities present a market growth opportunity for companies and public institutions that seek to exploit the social interaction and engagement with the user/client/partner/collaborator.
However, do mobile users favor only social networking?
In the past few years we have experienced another social phenomenon, which involves social games (i.e., games of imagination, skill and chance, among others) that are accessible via the Internet from a PC and/or a mobile phone. Games have and continue to be one of the largest and fastest growing categories of mobile content and according to surveys users spend considerable amount of their free time, playing games on their phone.
But is there is a linkage between social networking and mobile gaming?
The "m-Gaming: New User Experience and Market Growth Opportunity" presentation, of Dr. G. Yovanof and myself (presented at the “Industry Days 2010” of the European Lotteries, June 2-4 2010, Barcelona, Spain), provides answers to these issues, while it examines the impact of social networks and games. It describes how the mobile devices have realized the convergence of personal space, with physical and virtual worlds and points out circumstances under which a new generation of games will emerge: “games that could change the world”.
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