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Is the new colour of your company taken?

Is the amazing colour you just picked for your new company close to something already used by a big company?…

Markos Giannopoulos

Poetry in web motion

Ingredients: - a physics engine, - SVG graphics and - the Web Audio API. Bake and get something really cool…

Markos Giannopoulos

On algorithhms forming communities: my best photos of 2013 (according to 500px)

During this holidays break I setup a new site for my photography and new profiles in 500px and Flickr. 500px…

Markos Giannopoulos

11 Rules on being a productive creative by Henry Miller

Henry Miller (1891—1980) was one of the most controversial American novelists during his lifetime. His book, The Tropic of Cancer,…

Markos Giannopoulos

On failing algorithms

For some perverse reason, despite being my job to write algorithms, I love it when algorithms try and fail. For…

Markos Giannopoulos

The human knoweldge graph expanded?

Is this what the #web was created for? Croud-sourced #metadata (comments, photos and news links) on rap lyrics? :) Source: Rapgenius.com

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How Do You Rate As an Influential Author?

A new tool is attempting to answer that: Virante AuthorRank. As Virante's Mark Traphagen clarifies, Virante AuthorRank is not Google AuthorRank. It is an…

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It’s the end of an era for web design

Ryanair has redesigned it's website. Before it looked like it was designed in 1992 (because it probably was). Now it…

Markos Giannopoulos

6+1 WordPress initial-setup plugins

In my most recent WordPress installations, these are the plugins I install first: 1) Acunetix WP Security: all sorts of changes…

Markos Giannopoulos

Data visualisation porn

The Digital Attack Map is a live data visualization, built through a collaboration between Arbor Networks and Google Ideas, that…

Markos Giannopoulos