Vali Petcu blog

Got really bored and decided to reinstall my Windows7 on my HP Probook notebook. Fairly an easy operation, half an hour to install Windows, half an hour to install all other software and tweak it the way I like it. And while doing it I realized Windows is a piece of crap OS. It really […]

Mircea Popescu is a pathologic liar, a thief and a fake. He’s tried to bribe Romanian bloggers into writing complimentary articles about him, he made some false statements, claiming he bribed politicians and all kind of PR stunts and, after two years, he claimed he was the number one blogger. We laughed. And he fell […]

And Saturday will end with a bang. A very nice one.

44% decrease in reach for all Facebook pages. WOW! Just wow. Ok, everybody understands that Facebook has the right to do whatever it likes and it has worked hard to gather people on the site. But the pages have worked hard to gather likes and create interesting conversations. And from the user’s point of view: […]

Glad to see How to Web, a Romanian conference, is getting some press, after they cleaned up their act and started being bigger than life. This year they have a good lineup, with some interesting folks speaking. Aside from that, one thing about the frequent conference speaker, the guy speaking at 30-50 gigs a year, […]

Flipping through this presentation about the mobile world, I saw again the enormous Samsung Mobile budget. They are living proof is not enough to have the greatest smartphone, you got to have a big marketing budget. The average Joe sees the Galaxy S4 in Ray Donovan’s hands and that is what he buys. He doesn’t […]

First, two quotes from an article by Kirk Tuck: The vast majority of buyers of all cameras, DSLR’s, mirror less, high end compacts, etc. were hobbyists  and amateur photographers who, after years of pursuing some sort of competence in the craft have come to the conclusion that the whole art genre of photography is somewhat […]

Apple just release the new OSX titled Maverick for free. I was expecting a move like this from Microsoft. Because their real business is Office, not Windows. Windows is just a window to doing a lot of things. And now is the time, with the PC market going down. 

I had Office 2010 on my laptop for no good reason. All I needed to do was issue some invoices and do some presentations for the conferences I speak at. And Office always gave me trouble. Wanted to update all the time, lost file associations, crased and demanded the original disk to be inserted and […]

“Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping” and “What Women Want” are two books to be read by anybody working in online, not just for people working in sales. It explains a lot about the buying mentality.