Vali Petcu blog

I look at some Romanian journalists and TV personalities as they turned clowns because they did not know when to quit (Cristian Tudor Popescu comes to mind). And some others, that knew when the change scenery, because there was nothing left for them there: some took jobs in banks, some opened businesses: Radu Coşarcă, Cosmin […]

There is a pretty simpley answer on why US authorities are taking down sites like MegaUpload. And it is below. Sites like this have gone under the radar until they became too big and too successful for their own good. In order to survive and pay bandwidth and space costs, they needed to make money. […]

Actions like this don’t help. All they do is move the people towards a more controlled and restricted internet. The irony is that we want accountability from our politicians, but not for ourselves, because we cherish our right to anonymously trash them.

I found myself asking the title question to a manager asking me for advice regarding a social media strategy he was paying a lot of money for. The strategy was simple and you’ve heard it before: build facebook apps, get more likes, get more shares, get more retweets. Nothing wrong with that, but where are […]

Last night, in Bucharest it was hell. Young people fought with the police, threw stones, torched a car and broke windows. This is unusual for Romania, but it’s usual for the people doing it, because there are two types of people protesting: the football hooligans and the normal people. Unfortunately, the protest aimed at overthrowing […]

Vimeo folks wrote me a nice letter a few days ago, noticing me they have removed a bunch of my videos from my account, videos that were breaking their rules. From 100+ videos, they removed half. I reviewed a few of them and asked myself, and them, how is this video, par example, breaking the […]

Amongs Google PageSpeed ranking factors is one regarding a Content Delivery Network, that wants to use subdomains or a CDN for distributing content. If you have basic DNS and HTML knowledge you can do these easy steps: add to your DNS Aliases (A records) with the name cache1.yourdomain.com and cache2.yourdomain.com in order to point to […]

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I used to be work as a DTP for a small advertising agency in Bucharest. There I learned to pay attention to details. For instance once i rebuild in Photoshop the hand of a man on a poster. That is why i can’t understand the motivation of people putting online bad pictures of their friends. […]

There is a well knoww issue that Chrome is not blocking video ads inside videos, even if the adblock rules state the video ad should be blocked. And I am not talking about YouTube videos, either. I have found a workaround for those intrusive autoplay non-skipable videos that some sites use. It requires some work, […]