Maounis Frangoulis

Word Lens offers Real Time language translation (text), Google offers real time voice translation and when we put all these to Apple devices I feel we can do things 3 times faster, easier and with more confidence than ever.
Our word is really changing considering all these new funcy ideas that come out every day for [...]

Why some companies don’t dare to touch their services? Are they afraid of collapsing? Let’s take twitter and the service that is now valued for about $ 1 Billion and only few people in the world can understand why. Why twitter is stacked to 140 characters per tweet? OK they did this at the beginning [...]

There is a major activity of online cloud services to Merge information that can easily extract the core info from a set of data. This is by far the most interesting result of the new economy by now.
You can see two of the most interesting examples here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (It actually extracts knowledge from data on [...]

There must be a connection between agents and the recession.
Travel agents… gone.
Stock brokers… gone.
Real estate brokers… in trouble. Photographer’s agents, too.
Literary agents?
The problem with being a helpful, efficient but largely anonymous middleman is pretty obvious. Someone can come along who is cheaper, faster and more efficient. And that someone might be the customer aided by [...]

In the middle of an economic crisis everyone needs the work to be done for free (Germany is an exception in my point of view). At the bottom line this means that everyone would like the cheapest services for processes that he or she used to pay for in the past. You can call it [...]

This has been a major impact for many bloggers and marketing departments and it seems that is a really powerful tool for spreading the word of each new product, post or news. It is a fundamental tool for a company to reach it’s supporters via services like Twitter.
But the big power of such services is [...]

It’s a fact that not everyone is in trouble with the upcoming recession. How can this happen? Good question…
Not all services and products are so bad under this situation. Specifically in the tourist industry hoteliers must find solutions to spend less money and have more reservations. The answer is the INTERNET. And by this I [...]