PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
By the time most people read this post I will have stayed in three different hotels in New York, New Jersey and Maryland while trekking along with Challenge X teams for their final competition. That means I have had a chance to glance through several terms of service agreements for various hotel internet connections. [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I recently started using RescueTime after hearing about it countless times on Hacker News. Simply put, RescueTime is like Google Analytics for your time. It automatically tracks where you spend your time while computing and helps you become more productive by showing you where your time goes.. or you can use it to log how [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Similar to how I published photos of the companies I visited during my last trip to the valley, I have some new photos to share from my recent trip. During the week I was in California I visited San Francisco, then rented a car and drove to San Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Macbook Air owners know what I’m talking about - the dreaded core shutdown. When the MacBook Air gets too hot, there is a built-in thermal shutdown feature that turns off one of the two cores in the Core 2 Duo Intel processor found in the MacBook Air. The problem is that one of the cores [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Summize, a company I am quite familiar with following my review of their review aggregator product, has substantially changed their company direction since I have last been in touch with them. They are now focusing on a Twitter search tool - so much so that it is their main product and the review aggregator has [...]
dustbury.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
The May Day edition of Carnival of the Vanities is, as you'd expect, hosted by Dodgeblogium , a well-established WordPress blog which is not using Paul Stamatiou's 281 theme .
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
I just wrapped up my last finals for this semester on Wednesday and will soon be boarding a flight to San Francisco for a week of vacation filled with visiting friends and exploring California again among other things. I will probably have some downtime to write here but if not I thought I would put [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Final exams are around the corner and I can't help but think how useful Google Docs has been for me this year. They may not have implemented the print layout view (although it is surely nearby) I have been longing for, but Google has completely turned Docs around since their acquisition of Writely in March [...]
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Paul Stamatiou has posted what's really a two part series over the last few days about online presence… and business cards… Part One, which talks about why you need an online presence discusses the basics of online identity: A few months ago I read an insightful article about how more and more job recruiters are putting a [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
As a pseudo-followup to my post about establishing an online identity, I want to talk about creating your in-real-life (IRL) brand. Meeting people at business networking mixers, tech events and conferences is a lot like trying to pick up a girl at a bar. You need to sell yourself in the minute after you shake [...]
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Paul Stamatiou, a student at Georgia Tech University, and some of his classmates have written an academic paper on Twitter as an online community. Paul writes in his post announcing the paper: We focused on how Twitter’s sheer accessibility through a variety of clients (IM, SMS, mobile website, regular website, third-party apps) combined with the short 140 [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
One of the all-nighters I have pulled for school work in the last week has been for the last computer science course I need to take at Georgia Tech. It’s called Design of Online Communities and while essentially a slightly toned down version of a graduate course and the most reading-intense computer science course offered [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Building a community-driven site? You should consider implementing a points system. Why? I’ll try to show you why in this post, but in a nutshell points systems are an ingenious way of taking something with no tangible value and turning it into a prized virtual currency of sorts. Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, The Sixty One, [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Among the more popular posts on this blog are my DIY $200 PC posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). There are a few compromises with that route, such as it involves using a motherboard with an integrated 1.2GHz Celeron processor, which isn’t exactly good for much more than file serving and basic web browsing. [...]
PaulStamatiou (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Last July I first laid my hands on the then-dubbed Dash GPS navigation beta unit while visiting friends in San Francisco. As I was with a friend that had just moved there and was not familiar with the roads, the Dash proved indispensable. Naturally, so would any GPS navigation device - not quite. The revamped [...]
