Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Social Impact of HiTech

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

My friend Dominic Gallello, who used to be an EVP at Macromedia and is now running Graphisoft (part of Nemetschek) in Budapest, sent me this YouTube video about the work he and his wife are doing with orphanages in Romania. … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial: The Lowest Common Denominator?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Google’s OpenSocial is becoming the lowest common denominator for application integration in the social media space. That’s actually not that great for Google as it is rarely the case that the most successful applications run on the lowest common denominator … Continue reading →

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Ooyala wins

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Ooyala won the Amazon Web Service Startup Challenge last night. The company has a video hosting platform integrated with an ad network and some interesting bells and whistles built around the notion of using computer vision to provide better ad … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m heading to Seattle tomorrow for the AWS Startup Challenge finals. Many entered the competition with the hope of winning fame & glory, $50K in cash, $50K in AWS credit and an investment offer from Amazon (the details of which … Continue reading →

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Bubble 2.0 as Art

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Courtesy of my friend Paul Moorhead at Meridio/Autonomy.

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