The power of web tv is not only on the fact that you can watch it from your pc. It relies on the fact that viewers can watch on demand videos. This is the true power that soon, to me belief, will be transfered to our conventional TV sets.

www.cretenettv.gr

Design: Sekta
Production: Aventurine
Client: CreteNetTV
Development: Baldpixel
Developers Jargon: well there is not much innovation to this service apart from the fact that a lot of research went through in order to publish the feed with quality and no problems at all. At the beginning Livestream.com was selected as the provider for the stream , but it turned out not to be what the team wanted. LiveStream would be only for live feeds and lucked of the ability to have multiple on demand videos. Instead Akamai was selected through their representative Atoll Impressions . There is not much that I have to say about the innovation of Akamai and their services apart from the fact , that everything is working as it should!

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www.northwest.gr

Design: Iordanis Aslanoglou
Production: Aslanoglou -Baldpixel
Client: Northwest Communications
Published: 20/5/2009
Developers Jargon: It has a backoffice that supports multiple users, supports multiple product characteristics , advanced taxonomy and custom views. The most complex task about this site was the integration of ITE (greek hostmaster) and their services . Well not actually the integration between the two systems, but the synchronization of the two. Just imagine that services that run and update domains (Expiration or moving domains between owners ) need to run and synced in northwest.gr also. This is a custom solution from top to bottom and everything that was developed did not include any ready made platforms for integration. The good thing about this project is that a library was developed that is coming soon out for other developers to integrate with the Greek hostmaster.

www.northwest.gr

www.northwest.gr

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This is not my latest project, since winshop.gr is up and running successfully since May 2009. I have to start posting more frequently.!
This is a custom e-commerce solution, made exclusively for NorthWest Communications.

www.winshop.gr

Design: Iordanis Aslanoglou
Production: Aslanoglou -Baldpixel
Client: Northwest Communications
Published: 20/5/2009
Developers Jargon: It has a backoffice that supports multiple users, supports multiple product characteristics , advanced taxonomy and custom views. There has been a lot of searching for the optimal way to support multiple tags for product characteristics, due the complexity of the task. InnoDB tables were used and were monitored after launch in order to check how optimal is the implementation. Jquery was used for the UI of the customer for some tasks like Updating profile, completing an order and so on.
The performance turned out to be good since along with all the queries, dynamically generated XMLs were created to publish products on other sites. Lesson to be learned from this development: I’m happy that I did not use Drupal or some other E-commerce platform , where most  of the backend tasks could not be supported easily.

www.winshop.gr

www.winshop.gr

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photo from theflashblog.com

Πριν κανα δύο μέρες ο Steve Jobs (τον οποίο σέβομαι πάρα πολύ για την πορεία του), ανακοίνωσε το launch του νέου προϊόντος της Apple το iPad . Όπως συνήθως, αυτό που έχει καταφέρει η Apple με την μυστικοπάθεια που την περιτριγυρίζει σχετικά με τα νέα προϊόντα, δημιούργησε ένα πολύ μεγάλο buzz για αυτό που έρχεται και είμαι σίγουρος οτι αυτό είναι βασισμένο σε όλους τους φανατικούς της apple που βλέπουν την εν λόγω εταιρία σαν ευαγγελίστρια. Το πάθος τους όμως κατά την ταπεινή μου γνώμη τους κάνει να αποτυγχάνουν να δουν πράγματα που αν τα έκανα άλλες εταιρείες, μόνο διαβολικές δεν θα τις ονόμαζαν.
Διάβασα λίγο για το νέο προϊόν που στην ουσία καλύπτει το κενό μεταξύ PDA τύπου iPhone και φορητού υπολογιστή. Είδα όμως οτι κακώς γίνεται αυτός ο χαμός αφού στην ουσία δεν πρόκειται για κάποιο μεγάλο επίτευγμα τεχνολογίας, εκτός από το γεγονός ότι είναι πολύ λεπτό και designato.

Καταρχήν δεν είναι multitasking . Δηλαδή θα σερφάρεις αλλά δεν θα μπορείς να ακούς μουσική, ή θα γράφεις αλλά δεν θα μπορείς να σερφάρεις. Ακριβώς πως αυτό είναι προτέρημα για αυτό το συγκεκριμένο εργαλείο ?? (να βάλω υποσημείωση εδώ οτι το iPad θέλει να συναγωνιστεί τα netbooks και χωρίς το παραπάνω δεν ξέρω πως ακριβώς θα το κάνει)

Δεν έχει κάμερα. Εχει όμως μικρόφωνο. Δηλαδή εν έτος 2010 που οι κάμερες έχουν γίνει τόσο μικρές και φθηνές το μηχανάκι των $500 δεν θα μπορείς να κάνεις όσα προσφέρουν τα κατά πολύ ποιο φθηνά netbooks.

Δεν έχει embedded USB!!!!! αν το θέλεις θα πρέπει να πάρεις τον adaptor (που βέβαια στο δίνει η Apple) για να συνδέσεις τη συσκευή σου. Και Ω ναι είναι τεράστιος!!! so much for the design…

Το keyboard που υποτίθεται οτι είναι νέο και ανανεωμένο αλλά guess what.. σε βολεύει να γράψεις  μόνο αν κάθεσαι στο πάτωμα και έχεις τα χέρια κολλημένα πάνω στην οθόνη σου.

Το καλύτερο και τελευταίο… ΔΕΝ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΖΕΙ FLASH!!!!. θα σερφάρεις στο internet αλλά OH NO θα βλέπεις μικρά μπλε lego αντί για αυτό που θα έπρεπε να βλέπεις. Amazing browsing experience.
Για μένα τα παραπάνω αποτελούν ένα πράγμα μόνο. Είναι μεν ένα ωραίο παιχνίδι αλλά το μόνο που μπορώ να το συγκρίνω είναι το reader της Amazon (Kindle) και δεν θέλω καν να αρχίσω να κράζω για αυτό

my two cents….

Update1: διόρθωσα την προτασή μου για το USB που μάλλον δεν διατυπώθηκε σωστά στην αρχή
Update 2: μου έστειλαν και αυτό προς ενίσχυση της μη υποστήριξης του Flash… το θέμα είναι τι πασάρουν και τι στα αλήθεια μπορεί να κάνει σήμερα (όχι τι θα κανει αργότερα)

Update3 : Δεν ανέφερα καθόλου το γεγονός οτι δεν μπορείς να εγκαταστήσεις ΤΙΠΟΤΑ αν δεν υπάρχει στο AppStore. Ι mean cm’on are you serious ? όσο και καλό να είναι το app store γιατί με βάζεις στο tripaki οτι μόνο απο σένα θα αγοράζω???
Update4:  Το γεγονός οτι δεν μπορείς να αλλάξεις μπαταρία να σου τελειώσει και να βάλεις μια νέα , παρά θα πρέπε να το φορτίσεις? εννοω οτι για τη χρήση που προορίζεται και το market που απευθύνεται κάτι τέτοιο δεν θα ήταν απλό για τον χρήστη ?

Update5: όσο περισσότερο διαβάζω για αυτό τόσο περισσότερο βλέπω οτι είναι μια μεγάλη πατάτα αλλα interesting να δεις τι κάνει το marketing στα masses.

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As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla, and uploading photos and videos of their most private moments to the Web for all to see. It’s easy to say that privacy is dead, we all live in public now, and just deal with it.

But things are a bit more complicated. It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24-7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of our lives to keep private. Public is the new default.

Stowe Boyd, along with others before him, calls this new state of exposure “publicy” (as opposed to privacy or secrecy). He writes:

The idea of publicy is no more than this: rather than concealing things, and limiting access to those explicitly invited, tools based on publicy default to things being open and with open access.

I don’t particularly care for the neologism, but the idea behind it is spot on. This change represents a major shift in the social fabric, and it is only now just getting started. If you thought there was a lot of hair-pulling over privacy in 2009, just wait until 2010. Facebook’s new privacy policies which favor more public sharing, will be a big driver of this shift, as will the continued adoption of Twitter, which by its very design makes personal utterances public. Then there are startups like Blippy that go even further by turning every single purchase into a public statement.

It takes some getting used to the idea of living in public. As I discussed several hours ago with Andrew Keen, in public on Twitter, instead of making the private public, we will make the public private.” When public is the default, you deliberately select what to keep private instead of the other way around.

It’s not that privacy disappears. But it becomes more a matter of emphasis and a conscious decision. Boyd points out:

Some people are the web equivalent of nudists: they live very open lives on the web, revealing the intimate details of their relationships, what they think of friends and co-workers, their interactions with family and authorities. But . . . even these apparently wide open web denizens may keep some things private, or secret.

Privacy and secrecy are two different things. Secrets can be shared, and thus become “social objects that link those sharing the secrets together, and excluding others,” writes Boyd. Making it easy for people to move from the public to the private, and in between, will become increasingly important for Web companies.

Getting back to the original question, privacy will still live on, but will be so transformed as to become almost unrecognizable. No doubt, many people will mistake it for dead and keep pulling out their hair.  The rest of us will go on with our public lives.

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