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

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...

More & more companies around the world (small, medium, big) will be moving to public clouds (social media) to embrace new marketing tactics, expand their customer base, save money on huge budget marketing campaigns. Various organizations will have to deal with preserving, supporting & maintaining their Big Data in Clouds. Big data, as the innovative bridge empowering the connection between businesses & their customers. Current social media firms, will focus on mobility. They will spend resources trying to generate additional sources of revenues through mobile ads. Monetizing mobility, as the big bet. More people will be going online via mobile or portable devices than their desktops. Patent wars (Apple vs Samsung), will probably continue in 2013 among tech giants, settling lawsuits, chasing after media exposure, increasing industry fragmentation. Patent wars exhaust rivals, add market share & value to the winner. Visual platforms like Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest...

As we approach the end of 2012 & not the end of our beautiful & grotesque world, here are my top 5 blog posts for the year that has passed:   + The promo video of my start - up company, Songreal : http://stathiskassios.blogspot.gr/2012/02/songreal-official-promo-video.html + Music ''shot'' part III feat. Christian Cambas : http://stathiskassios.blogspot.gr/2012/03/music-shot-part-iii-christian-cambas.html + Hailing from Dresden , a global citizen & boundary spanner: http://stathiskassios.blogspot.gr/2012/08/hailing-from-dresden-global-citizen.html + The third industrial revolution is here: http://stathiskassios.blogspot.gr/2012/10/the-third-industrial-revolution-is-here.html + Another ''music'' shot feat. Stereo Mike : http://stathiskassios.blogspot.gr/2012/12/new-music-shot-feat-stereo-mike.html  Expect my predictions for 2013...soon! Your blog pal, S.