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Re: Keep Your Startup Virtual

PStamatiou — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:14 -0000

Haha I find I only cowork when I would rather be less productive but more social. If I need to get shit done I'm best left alone in my apartment with my huge desk, good coding music (generally stuff on mugasha.com), frigid A/C, ample coffee and comfy herman miller.

Skribit is nearing its "official launch" pretty soon. Finishing up some cool things (twitter oauth!) and then we'll be ready to market it and get some press. :)

Re: Keep Your Startup Virtual

PStamatiou — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:36:09 -0000

Well said David. I fall into the still-virtual startup category. One local co-founder and an intern in AZ and we work online almost exclusively with Campfire chat. I am also a member of a local coworking facility called Ignition Alley for meeting up to get work done.

Re: Drunk Woman Falls Onto Subway Tracks and Survives Near Miss [Video]

PStamatiou — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:26:13 -0000

Not quite sure how this is social media news, despite the nugget about how news is spreading fast.. this is stuff best kept for digg.

Re: Being Open and Honest About Startup Process

PStamatiou — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:10 -0000

I'm looking forward to keeping up with your journey Andrew!

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - I am really excited about the Vook and getting...

PStamatiou — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:09:55 -0000

I would actually enjoy it - I often flip through stuff on my iphone for 10-20 minutes or so before heading to sleep.

Re: The BlogWorld Experience

PStamatiou — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:57 -0000

Nice! I'm checking out the interview right now.

Re: The BlogWorld Experience

PStamatiou — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:09 -0000

Thanks for stopping by TechDrawl Dave. Yeah I definitely agree about the clubs - they were awesome venues and I would normally have a blast at places like that, but when I'm surrounded by bloggers I've been reading for years and I just want to chat with them I'd be better off elsewhere.

As for networking in-between sessions - I think it would be great if there was some more downtime between panels - or maybe just a free 1-hour block somewhere in the day, and one room was designated as the chill/chat room and had basic beverages and laptop charging stations and tables. The day was definitely long enough - I found myself often skipping the very last panel of the day to get ready and find dinner before the 8pm parties/events rolled around.

Best,
Paul

Re: The BlogWorld Experience

PStamatiou — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:22:07 -0000

Hey Patrick - I actually did enjoy Scoble's Lists demo as well.. just put the "devolved" part in there as some snark. :-) I got Twitter lists access around the same time he did so I was just learning the ins and outs of it so it was nice to see his interpretation! See ya around. Going to SXSW this year?

Re: The BlogWorld Experience

PStamatiou — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:01:30 -0000

bahaaha. thanks, that made my day!

Re: Paul Stamatiou: No Quarterlife Crisis

PStamatiou — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:39:04 -0000

Happy to be your first interviewee (was it?)!

Re: Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

PStamatiou — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:02:32 -0000

Nothing to say - just wanted to let you know I thorougly enjoyed this post!

Re: HUGE: Microsoft Inks Deals With Twitter and Facebook to Put Status Updates in Bing

PStamatiou — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:13:49 -0000

Agreed - I'm fine with it linking to just my profile.. but specific tweets/etc might be a bit much. Ah well, that's the internets for you. We have come to understand that slowly everything will be searchable.

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

PStamatiou — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:01:15 -0000

Thanks! No worries, I've definitely had posts that I just wanted to "get out there" and wrote really quickly too! That being said some of these books look interesting just from what I've seen on amazon.. might end up buying a few!

Best,
Paul

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

PStamatiou — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:56 -0000

Can you add a description of each and what you learned from it? Otherwise this just seems like an Amazon affiliate link push.

Re: SQL Databases Don't Scale

PStamatiou — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:34:59 -0000

Don't have anything to say other than great article, good read. Thanks.

Re: Google Wave Invite Selling for $70 on eBay

PStamatiou — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:08:19 -0000

I wouldn't pay for one, but I went through great lengths back in 2004 to get my gmail invite. Eventually going to one of those exchange forums and in a thread about who i would vote for in the coming election, and said I would vote for the person that the OP liked haha.

Re: Send Paul Stamatiou to BlogWorld ‘09!

PStamatiou — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:32:54 -0000

lol you linked to 37s like you meant for your name to be DHH. typo fail!

Re: Send Paul Stamatiou to BlogWorld ‘09!

PStamatiou — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:18:41 -0000

I think we can arrange that Micah. My health insurance is $143/month through United Healthcare. How many months would you like to sponsor? ;-)

How are Obsidian and DoLeaf going - I take it Obsidian Portal takes up more of your time?

Re: Georgia Tech Edison Fund Invests in Band Metrics

PStamatiou — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:52:07 -0000

Grats Duncan!

Re: Send Paul Stamatiou to BlogWorld ‘09!

PStamatiou — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:28:35 -0000

Hey Norman - the post mentions how I co-founded and work full-time for a startup called Skribit, you can read about it here: http://skribit.com/about

Re: Send Paul Stamatiou to BlogWorld ‘09!

PStamatiou — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:55:35 -0000

Haha my FiestaMovement application video is so embarrassing! Thanks for helping me out with this Celia et al!

Re: Our online lives slowly leak away

PStamatiou — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:47:57 -0000

Great post Robert. I unfortunately had a good friend pass away last month. He was 23 and a computer science student... so naturally he had a *huge* online presence. He had various servers in colos, flickr, twitter, facebook, linkedin, amazon s3, a few google accounts, google apps and more. He was also a security hobbyist so everything was locked down. The only access his parents had was through his iPhone, which they used to access his email and notify all of his friends of his situation.

Backups are an interesting issue, especially when they deal with someone's passing. However I must bring up one slightly contradictory thing about this article. You say to stick with big companies and then recommend Legacy Locker. While I see the logic - it's not like Google runs a similar service - but how do we know that this startup will be around long?

Re: I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things

PStamatiou — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:54:01 -0000

" I delete the original admin account."

Better yet - keep it but give it subscriber privs. So even if they do get in they'll get foiled into thinking it all worked, and then leave. (the automated bots that do all this..)

and I backup everything on my server more or less every few days - databases, theme, images, etc - to S3 with a script I wrote. http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-bulletproof-ser...

I also have a plugin that changes the default location of wp-login.php to anything you want. it doesnt actually move the files but just does redirection trickery.

As for FORCE_SSL_ADMIN - I'm in the process of setting that up on my server soon.

Re: EtherPad Blog: Saving is Obsolete

PStamatiou — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:49:59 -0000

Grats on the release. Noticed it this morning (and submitted to HN!). really like the read-only feature.. sometimes I want to share stuff with people that don't have accounts, but not let them edit it.

Re: Paul Stamatiou was here. - leaving to go back home in 23 hours.. i’ve missed...

PStamatiou — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:52:11 -0000

i live in atlanta :D