The concept behind askmarkets

cross posted at “the official askmarkets blog” Askmarkets is an internet-based service for prediction markets, which consists of virtual marketplaces for information trading. Now, while this sentence might seem like an accurate description to our biased eyes, we bet that you can find a much better pitch line and submit it in the comments below. …

A Course by Blog, Lessons Learned

cross posted at ‘A Course by Blog’ This semester, as you may know, I was privileged enough to teach (or, to be academically correct, to provide teaching assistance, but I truly thank my professor for entrusting me and giving me full freedom to handle everything by myself) the course ‘Information Extraction Algorithms’ -pure Data Mining in practice- …

Presenting at the 3rd Workshop on Prediction Markets

I attended earlier today the 3rd Workshop on Prediction Markets, organized with the support of Yahoo Research at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Chicago. The event managed to gather top-notch researchers and practitioners of the field from Japan till, well, Greece, and I really enjoyed the focus and depth of all presentations. …

TechCrunch goes Open Coffee Greece

It’s true. It’s big. It’s awesome. After 22 Open Coffee events and hundred of participants around Greece this season, we’re very pleased to announce that we’ll cohost Open Coffee Athens XIII with Techcrunch. When? Tuesday, July 1st. Close your mouth :), we are serious. The blog that brought the term start-up to the mainstream and is read by millions of people worldwide is on …

Attending Greek Blogger Camp 2008

  I’m attending Greek Blogger Camp 2008 (photos are flowing here, more stuff on twitter) organized by my friend Stefanos in the magnificent island of Ios. Attendance is not excessive in size, but mood and atmosphere are pretty excellent and today alone I had the chance and priviledge to share some ouzo with Boris and Patrick (the latter one is also a speaker to the forthcoming Open Coffee …