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Launching askmarkets services
go create your marketplace now

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I’m too exhausted to write about anything but my excitement on participating at Startup Weekend Athens, as @andrewhyde said “the biggest SUW ever organized in Europe”. We set up a fantastic team by @kcorax, @dimitristi, @netwire, @ageor and @thimios and turned a rough idea (“friendfeed counter anyone?”) conceived about an hour before the event into a solid service and valuable offering, which you may better visualize as “PeopleRank”.

So, we eventually decided to go for computing the informational value a person has across various networks, in other words her global social impact factor. And we ended up creating a number of crawlers scanning all the relevant information we can get from popular social networks, a sophisticated algorithm to take into account all that information (giving it a second thought, I may say it’s pretty close to the concept of a customized pagerank, this time with people as nodes), also a capable web interface, next to the business model and plan and service’s presentation. 

I’m not that secure the social impact metric you’ll get right now won’t eventually harm our own reputation, but rest assured that our crawlers are up and running, so that the system accumulates wisdom next to storing data over time and will provide more accurate results every next time you try it.

You may find more details about the concept and its implementation in our presentation embedded below, but, no matter the details, let me say it again: It was a weekend of pure fun.

HowSocialRU Launch Presentation, Startup Weekend Athens

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(update) @dimitrisTI has more: Part I & Part II

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It is about time to let the good times roll: We are launching askmarkets. Quietly.

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I’m more than happy to share with you that the Course via Blog has matured into a solid start-up. DataMine.it MineKnowledge that is and our offering regards -you guessed that right- data mining services.

We put great effort on adding value to AI algorithms by spicing them up with our very human expertise, while trying to keep the whole procedure as simple as it gets and its results much more intuitive than what you may imagine. So, you may go find out more right now at MineKnowledge, while we can’t wait to put our hands on your precious data and I’d like to thank you in advance for your support and feedback.

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I gave an introductory lecture on prediction markets earlier today, in the context of a undergraduate course in Logistics at NTUA’s School of Mechanical Engineering. The feedback and responses on running some hands-on experiments (you can guess the software) were really great, I expect that this will be repeated in a few days when I’m giving a lecture again, in the course of Production Management & Control this time.

I also came up with some extended lecture notes, which you may find of value in the all-but-rare case of being interested in the topic and understanding greek (63 pgs, .pdf, published under CC attribution -share alike 3.0).

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He who writes a lot, has little to say.
from a discussion with Professor George Cosmetatos, member of my PhD thesis committee, on the extent of my dissertation

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A couple of days ago, George Kasselakis, Dimitris Athanasiadis and I had the privilege to lead a discussion at the Stream08 unconferene. Together with Jennifer Schenker of BusinessWeek, we attempted -quite successfully!- to trigger the conversation about innovation in Europe, trying to figure out some best practices for enabling entrepreneurship excellence.

The presentation is embedded below and we were lucky enough to get feedback from some very experienced european VCs and Tim O’Reilly, among others. Insights on which should be the steps to follow the apparent (but yet almost outward) success of Open Coffee in Greece were plenty (also Jeff Pulver contributed some very useful insights later on in the bar), however I do believe that your insights are equally valuable, so please contribute to the discussion here or in the original Open Coffee post.

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P.S.: On a side note, Jason Calacanis will attend and speak at Open Coffee Athens XV tomorrow, you just can’t miss that!

update: Jennifer Schenker’s piece on Stream08 and our session, available right in Business Week.

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an interview of mine appeared yesterday in V-Men magazine, distributed with the sunday edition of daily newspaper To Vima and claiming a circulation of .475M (full text is here, in greek).

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The show has moved to the tech start-up scene.
Attending SIME Helsinki, the semantics of location just made this clear to me…

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