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Re: The Facebook Purge: Corporate power, political influence and the need for alternative networks

ckorakas — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:37:42 -0000

I totally agree with an OSS / commons based and distributed alternative to social networking. The issue here is that there are few non- private institutions that have the know-how, money and will to make this happen. There is not much room for a second Facebook as there is not for a second twitter. Most users can hardly cope with these 2 already let alone invest time and energy to erect their personas in new social networks. The truth is that we all allowed the unthinkable to happen: make our online personas and networks the private property of compagnies that aim at money making that's all. Now it seems impossible to opt out even if we know the risks as the personas and relationships / network build there is too important.
The only ways to revert this is to have as good or better platforms offered by the open source / commons crowd and the possibility to port your whole Facebook / twitter life to these with a click. The rise of Quora leaves room for hope that the people are still willing to try something new. But they need to be convinced that the run a risk being on privately held and owned social networks.

Re: 5 Excellent E-Card iPhone Apps

ckorakas — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:10:55 -0000

You probably forgot one!
Popcarte !
It's not an e-card as it ends up sending a real printed card anywhere in the world!
Just choose the pic on iphone you want to send, choose the card format, write you message, recipient address, sign et voila! a color printed card (with or without envelop, you chose) with a stamp and all is dispatched ... for 1,99USD ...

It is the real online to offline integration

Re: 5 Excellent E-Card iPhone Apps

ckorakas — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:10:39 -0000

It is the real online to offline integration

Re: http://hosting-dev.mckinsey.com/What_Matters/The_Debate_Zone/Will_people_pay_for_content_online.aspx

ckorakas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:53:00 -0000

Yes and No

Some contents are 'marketable' in the sense that specific sets of users are willing to pay for getting access to these, for a variety of reasons usually linked to business, career, personal (etc) development all of which are supposedly related to revenue generating processes. So if a content is structured and targeted enough that it can help you leap forward in your business or any other money generating activity (money or any other gratification currency you might be using) saving you precious time and energy yes they will pay for it.

If on the other hand the advantage is not that obvious they will try google instead

My guess is that most of the ground breaking content that can help you really progress in what you do, is non structured and scattered all over the web.

So yes I would pay for it if someone (or something) would do this painful job of putting the knowledge/ information pieces together for me in a way i can directly use and benefit from.

But then again

Just accessing the right piece of information, doesn't mean that we are ready to change our way of thinking and doing by converting this piece of information into knowledge and then practice

As the semantic web moves forward and extremely sophisticated knowledge virtual harvesters are being built its for the harvesting and bread-making that you will pay not the wheat

regards from rainy Brussels

Re: Κι η Ελλάδα πέφτει πέφτει …

ckorakas — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:48:02 -0000

isws na simainei oti osoi psaxnoun gia diakopes stin Ellada pigainoun pleon se exeidikeumena sites kai den psaxnoun genika sto Google

Endiaferon exei parapanw psaximo kai erminia pantws

Nice catch!

Re: “Welcome to the Revolution”

ckorakas — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:33:14 -0000

very nice catch Niko !!

will disseminate this page

Re: 25 must-follow #gov20 heroes on Twitter

ckorakas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:48:10 -0000

I will back 100% Tim on having Tom Steinberg and mysociety up here

They are leading the pack at least in Europe...

We at best try to copy the best practice he establishes ... And he is even helping us do that too !

I would also recommend you have a look beyond the US ... loads of things happening out there !

Re: τέλος στην κοροιδία

ckorakas — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:38:18 -0000

Προσωπικά συμφωνώ με όσα λες ... και για τον δικομματισμό και την ανάγκη κινητοποίησης ...
Το θέμα είναι στις Ευρωεκλογές θα ψηφίσεις? Ναι / Όχι και γιατί?

Re: Gmail, gfail και αλεξίπτωτα σωτηρίας

ckorakas — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:12:22 -0000

Ευχαριστώ πολύ Νίκο για την γρήγορη αντίδραση!
Κατα κανόνα κατεβάζω τα gmail τοπικά με Thunderbird ...
Σε μένα ομως τουλάχιστον δεν δουλευει πιά εδώ και 2-3 μήνες και αντιστοιχα δεν μπορώ να τρέξω το Gmail Offline (κολλάει στην εγατασταση σημείο β. 4. στο post σου)
Οποτε τζιφος ...

Εχουν και άλλοι το ίδιο θέμα ?

Για τα Social Nets θα ήταν ωραιο να είχαμε κάτι σε στύλ Friend Feed offline ...
Για τα Chat υπαρχει δυνατότητα να σώζεις τοπικά συζητήσεις αλλά όχι συνολικά (κάθε εφαρμογή δικό της συστημα)

Re: BarCamp NYC — the Nuts and Bolts

ckorakas — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:01:12 -0000

Thank you very much for this very important walk-through ... we plan to do one in Athens Grece an I got a much better picture of what it will take to make it happen ...

Thanks again

Re: Going global and virtual, perhaps

ckorakas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:17 -0000

Hello, Excellent initiative ! have a look at www. twestival.com . they managed to set up and launch events in more than 200 cities just through twitters mobilization ! Not bad! Why not try it too? First time i registered for such an event online knowing that the money would serve a good cause... Set up a rooster of civic / gov hacking project ideas to be funded and have people choose where their gov hacking party entrance fee would go! Just an idea! Christoforos

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - Twitter Circa 1649 (click image for full size) ...

ckorakas — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:56:52 -0000

That is excellent!! I should do a Socratic one as well ...

Re: Obama Gets a Google Vet–But Not for CTO

ckorakas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:22:05 -0000

It is incredible to hear there is such a service being set-up actually !!

Best of luck to the lady inded ... we need her to do very good!

On the other hand I am disappointed ... with so many real eDemocracy experts and activists that have successfully led citizen participation initiatives in the US ... its amazing that google frenzy takes over once more ...

Re: Yes We Can…Use Comments, Web Services on Government Web Sites

ckorakas — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:56:19 -0000

A giant step indeed ...
The question is whether it is sustainable in its current form.
Receiving extensive and important input by citizens is great as long as you can handle it. 3700+ posts is great and I am sure they contain very important information too. Do you think someone really read through these, skimmed the essence, structured the arguments to produce the type of information Ministers or aides can read??
Really? All that over thanksgiving??
I really doubt hey have 50 high level policy analysts to spare over the weekend to do this job.

The idea of using web 2.0 is great. I just wish they could tap on the expertise that does exist both in the US and in Europe, in many other places and online communities in particular to create a real public dialogue tool.
A blog with comments is a good tool. But not the kind of tool that will enable meaningful citizen participation and engagement.

There are bold experiments out there from which the Change team should learn. There are real edemocracy / eparticipation / policy transparency experts out there that have done it before and in many cases successfully.

I believe this is an area where the Change team has to invest in seriously. Create a powerful eDemocracy team that will bring in the experts and connect with these communities.

Using existing tools such as blogs and wikis can get you to a point. From there on you need to think hard and deploy the needed tailor made solutions.

Yes you can!

Re: LeWeb08 program is here! We hope you like it

ckorakas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:10:56 -0000

My god this is massive !
Congrats on getting the "creme de la creme" in one place !

Pity I can't spare the fees to be there ...
With the people you bring in ...you could have a web audience of thousands

For a change! please ! can we have a conference about the web that "walks the talk" ?

I have been to dozens of IT, web2.0 web 3.0 web ... etc conferences and their closest relation to IT is powerpoint and projectors ...

don't just talk about it ! BE IT!!

(thats my wish ...amen)

Re: Karagos is bloggin'

ckorakas — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:36:46 -0000

iPhone Unlocked
in Belgium by Mobile operator Mobistar
http://iphone3g.mobistar.be...
525 Euro 8GB
615 Euro 16 GB
:-((((

Re: Karagos is bloggin'

ckorakas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:37:25 -0000

exairetiko!!

Re: Twitter: A two-way social computer?

ckorakas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:58:01 -0000

very Interesting discussion
In large organizations (public ones in particular) we face a weird situation where the technology adopted is developed and used to replicate the obsolete and utterly inneficient work flows, management structures and bureaucratic procedures that exist from the age of the paper only workplace.
The traditional lack of communication and knowledge sharing inside organisations, is kept even as new tools and technologies are slowly integrated... You are not allowed (not technically of course) to mail your director about something or to share information. You need to follow the command chain: you-> your superior -> his superior -> (...) -> the Director General. The same goes the other way round. The chances that information gets through the way up are very limited ... So despite the fact that the organisation has adopted a technology (e-mail) that allows for the flow of information to be freed and the pyramid to be flattened (you->Director General) this is not the case ... The process re-engineering needed never happened. The result is that sing new ICTs has made the bureaucratic characteristics of the organization even more prominent.
What is really weird is that the same General Director or CEO etc is probably "friend" to some teenager on facebook ...
The increasing use of social networks among colleagues outside the firewall - as these are often not provided internally- is increasingly eroding the internal organisational structures creating ad'hoc teams and groups of co-workers that can finally easily collaborate online (google docs, yahoo groups, etc) that have nothing to do with official organigrams.
Lacking the vision and awareness / understanding at top management level is mainstream in public institutions, thus changes happen randomly, bottom-up in a way that is probably not benefiting the whole of the organization but small clans of power-users ...

Twittering inside the organisation could be beneficial in my view, only as one of many different communication modes ... I can't imagine it replacing mail or blog entries or discussion forums ..

All these should ideally be part of an integrated environment, bringing together and structuring knowledge embedded in twitts, mails, blog entries/comments, documents, forum discussions, ...

just some views