I ‘ve decided to work every year between Dec 25 and the new year day on a fun project that I might feel… tol “embarrassed” to work on on any other occasion. Last year it was an arduino-based game console with a 4×20 LCD screen and 4 buttons (about which I should write sometime). This [...]
The project is here: http://polychronis.gr/gplusanalyzer/ This started as an effort to look into Robert Scoble‘s circles to find interesting people. Since the Google+ API is not out yet, I decided not to spend more than 24h on this project, so this is literally how much time I ‘ve spent on it. You provide the ID of [...]
My new project is out: http://geo.gy/ Were you ever in the middle of a conversation and needed to share your location with the other party? Geo.gy is a platform-independent, location shortener service. It uses HTML5 to detect your location, then gives you a short url to a pointer on a map. You can use Geo.gy to add [...]
I just read here about Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox, who delivered the commencement address at Rochester on May 15th and then the commencement address at MIT on June 3rd. She brought xerox-ed copies to whole new level. For best results, let the video from Rochester play in the background and read through the [...]
This is a cute project I worked on with Boris Kizelshteyn and Victor Hung a couple of months ago for the OnStar Student Developer Challenge. We were among the 6 finalists! We presented the project at the Where 2.0 2011 conference in Santa Clara. I was lucky enough to meet Robert Scoble at a dinner there! The project enables drivers on the [...]
