Christina Koukkos

Travel

What to Read Before Hopping on the Trans-Siberian; Matador Goods; March 21, 2011

Diving Papua New Guinea; Matador Trips; March 8, 2011

6 Rare Marine Creatures and Where to See Them; Matador Trips; January 17, 2011

Diving Malaysian Borneo; Matador Trips; December 17, 2010

Trekking Burma; The Expeditioner; July 26, 2009

Eclipse Chasing, in Pursuit of Total Awe; The New York Times; May 17, 2009

Malibu Dude Ranch in Milford, PA; New York magazine; November 3, 2008

Technology

Release 1.0; March 2005

Brightcove
A syndicated video content service for independent publishers

Epocrates
A wireless data service for health professionals

Eventful (neé EVDB)
A rich source of listings for local events

Grouper Networks
A peer-to-peer file-sharing network with built-in community and privacy

Impinj
Uses patented manufacturing techniques to develop low-cost, low-power and efficient RFID tags

JotSpot
A wiki provider that also offers standard functional workflow and light data tools so that users can develop “mini-applications”

Rearden Commerce
An e-commerce platform and service grid for employee business services and more

Release 1.0; March 2004

Convoq
Helps the right people meet at the right time, and gives them tools to communicate

Informative
Helps companies listen to their customers using interactive, dynamic polling software

Intelligent Results
Mines unstructured data from customer communications to help institutions predict customer behavior

Language Weaver
Takes the logical (and clever) next step in machine translation with software that “learns” to translate from already-translated documents

Mindfabric
Uses linguistic analysis to figure out what sort of information a customer is looking for

Scalix
Provides enterprise-class e-mail, messaging and calendaring capability on Linux and supports it from the server

Technorati
Tracks conversations on the Web by analyzing what bloggers are blogging about, and with whom

Release 1.0; July 2004

Politics on the Net: A Three-Way Digital Divide (36 pages)
Will the Internet and other technology change the face of politics to allow bottom-up (and lateral) communication participation instead of top-down broadcast and control? Should the current system of political participation be changed? How?

Dozens of entrepreneurs and political hackers are using the real-time coordinating power of new communication tools for ad-hoc, spontaneous political activity. Often, however, they operate under the assumption that friction-free politics creates a “more democratic” process because all voices can be heard – though not necessarily listened to. Some friction is necessary to read the real topology of the political landscape: As political activity becomes easier to practice, its power is quickly diluted. Just as we need to learn how to judge the quality of content on the Net, we’ll need to learn how to parse political activity on the Net.