The official blog of Stathis Kassios for Business, Media, Economics & Arts

- Wearable technology (like Google Glass) merging with more fashion companies to go mainstream for consumer brands. - Smart machines will proliferate (like IBM Watson).  - Internet of everything (IoE). Expect internet to conquer everything, cars, housing devices, plant watering systems and not just your laptop. - Apps make the world go round! Millions of applications easily searchable hitting your screens every day. The long tail of mobile apps and free competition will decide on who monetizes or not the idea behind the application. Tailored apps for all needs and human desires will be filling Apple Store and Google Play. - 3D Printers will turn entire industries upside - down and will disrupt all current lines of manufacturing, production, logistics, etc. Companies can benefit from cost efficient prototyping through 3D printing. - Crowdfunding. Take the story of Pebble Smartwatch which was backed by 85,000+ people through Kickstarter:  https://getpebble.com/ -  Mobil

I'm very happy to announce that I will join Global Entrepreneurship Week and FoundersAccelerating in Dresden, November 22nd, in order to attend workshops with Halley Suitt Tacker and learn from crowding cases of international projects.  I'm also aiming to create a knowledge-sharing & networking bridge between Athens & Dresden for young Greek entrepreneurs willing to develop their start-up businesses through crowdfunding & global networking ! Please share the following link with your contacts and networks.   Halley Suitt Tucker , author of " Founders Less Than Three " a book on entrepreneurship & startups funded with the help of a  Kickstarter campaign - See more at: http://de.unleashingideas.org/activity/foundersaccelerating#sthash.52XhDF6T.dpuf   Halley Suitt Tucker , author of " Founders Less Than Three " a book on entrepreneurship & startups funded with the help of a  Kickstarter campaign - See more at: http://de.un

I am currently collaborating with an international team feat. Chaostar , Jon Simvonis , and Dreamscape Global on a transmedia project .  Our online community ''Zorba The Entrepreneur '' aims to promote the stories of entrepreneurs from Greece to a global audience. Our mission is to spread the positive side of Greece's innovative and creative class through transmedia storytelling in order to reverse the negative image spurred by the media due to the crisis. The fields covered in this community will be around business, culture, arts, start-ups, technology, fashion, design, nature, etc. All topics with an entrepreneurial touch and scope are welcome. Invite your friends interested in Greece ! Links: Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/zorba.the.entrepreneur/   Google plus : https://plus.google.com/b/ 110425612391237679640/ 110425612391237679640/posts

Please introduce yourself to the readers of this blog and update us on your latest endeavors.   We are a couple of entrepreneurs that are committed to innovation. We founded Pandoo TEK Inc. in Vancouver B.C, Canada to develop the next big thing on the web. Pandoo TEKS’ sole purpose is to turn innovative ideas into solutions by developing the technologies to support them. Pandoo TEK achieves that with serious R&D on personalization and orchestration. Our names are: Michael Patellis (CEO) and George Delaportas (CIO).   A few words about us:   - George Delaportas - I am a young Entrepreneur. I am an IT Architect and a Security Expert. Hacking and Reverse Engineering is part of my everyday life. In the past 2 years I have developed several technologies and innovations for different fields of science. The most denoted is ALPHA Script – http://alpha-script.localhost-ltd.com/ I have also worked in the space industry with ESA, NASA, etc. My view is towards reshaping the web into

Behind The Front Page - A Candid Look At How The News Is Made, by David S. Broder (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)  Link & reviews:  http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Front-Page-David-Broder/dp/0743205502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375433769&sr=8-1&keywords=behind+the+front+page     Web Analytics 2.0 The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity by Avinash Kaushik Link & reviews:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470529393/?tag=occsrazbyavik-20/    Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson Link & reviews:  http://www.amazon.com/Schrodingers-Trilogy-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0440500702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375434829&sr=8-1&keywords=schrodinger%27s+cat   Enjoy summer! SK  

Please introduce yourself to the reader of this blog and update us on your latest endeavors. I started my company in social media when I was 24. I had then gone from studying entrepreneurship to working at the University in Kristiansand with Entrepreneurship that I thought it was time that I actually started a company myself. Having lived alone since I was 14 you could say that I in some ways always has been an entrepreneur but I hadn't yet formed a company. I could see the future of communication being social media. And this was at a time where companies would not have anything to do with Facebook or did not believe it would have anything to do with them at all. And of course they just thought I was stupid when I told them that it would be their prime communication tool with users. I started approaching companies with my new formed social media company and sold services that at that time made them stand very much out from the crowd in social media. I also did public speaking to

Alphaville is the dystopian film by the great director Jean-Luc Godard, released almost haf a century ago. The director smiles sardonically upon us as the film's bleak vision looks through the decades that passed and the ones that will come, where technology and pure scientific logic drive change and worldwide upheaval. One cannot escape the prophetic ramifications spelled throughout this sci-fi masterpiece, as it progresses to a black & white panorama of Orwellian asphyxiation. As time passes by, the film reaches its apocalyptic metaphors and reveals its timely & powerful concerns, fears, of a world ruled by disciplined followers of science & technology. The protagonist, Lemmy Caution, picked by Godard out of b movies, performs the role of an agent whose mission is to stop this totalitarian madness. The deep dark voice of the super computer Alpha 60, reminds us of post 00's AI (artificial intelligence) that has been enhanced in our modern lifes, in ways that

1. Please introduce your company, IMC Technologies, to the readers of our blog & update us on your latest endeavors. Modern organizations, regardless of their size or function, want to engage their members / customers / citizens / employees (who are the most valuable assets) in an online collaboration and participation process to receive feedback, insights, opinions, ideas, to discover emerging trends and opportunities or identify threats, to inform and build awareness, to reach consensus, to solve problems, to build relationships, to promote goals, and most of all to make generate new revenue streams. IMC Technologies flagship products are eDialogos, publishAIR and Knowledge Accelerator with which IMC develops a leadership positioning in the markets of social business software and social analytics. IMC offers their tools in various commercial models ranging from full custom solutions and professional services for large customers and governments, on to cloud based Sof

  Some thoughts based on Cisco's latest white paper: '' Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network: Prepare Your Network for the Cloud ''. In our times, many companies serve their customers worldwide, 24/7. Constant travels require business people to share updates, emails, data, content, memos, with their peers back to the company's headquarters.  Cloud economics have promised efficiency, innovative business models, reduced operating costs. Clouds are rapidly changing the way of scheduling & doing business. The ultimate challenge will be to unify remote locations & users, all applications and devices used, under a secure Cloud network. IT teams, will be responsible for serving the complicated needs of modern online business operations. No matter where your firm's offices are located, your clients, or your personnel, the Cloud will be connecting all your latest applications and services, breaking all geographical boundaries. Everything will be channeled

''Food not only constitutes the principal part of the riches of the world, but it is the abundance of food which gives the principal part of their value to many other sorts of riches.The poor inhabitants of Cuba & St. Domingo, when they were first discovered by the Spaniards, used to wear little bits of gold as ornaments in their hair and other parts of their dress.They seemed to value them as we would do any little pebbles of somewhat more than ordinary beauty, and to consider them as just worth the picking up, but not worth the refusing to any body who asked them . They gave them to their new guests at the first request, without seeming to think that they had made them any very valuable present. They were astonished to observe the rage of the Spaniards to obtain them; and had no notion that there could anywhere be a country in which many people had the disposal of so great a superfluity of food, so scanty always among themselves, that for a very small quantity of those g