Vali Petcu blog

In 2008, I wrote a review of a new phone. I am more of a journalist than a tech expert, so my opinion was from the consumer side, not from the techie who’s impressed by the accelerometer, whatever that is. The review was mixed, with good and bad, again, focusing on what the consumer needs. […]

This is the cry of the Romanian blogger. For years he’s been begging for attention from the companies, and now that he has it, he does not know how to cope with it and how to deliver. Now he has made up his mind he does not want attention (press releases, party invites, product testing […]

Ok, early adopters and google fans got in. Now what? How long before this cheap imitation of Facebook will look for new ideas as it fades away, just like buzz and wave?

So you’ve become more successful that you thought possible. People recognize your skills and put you up on the good list. But you forgot how you got there. And for months now your blog had that traffic because you wrote good articles some years ago. But how long will those visitors keep coming back?

SO, last week I met what seo guys are calling "google bowling". Some guy was upset he showed up first in google for his name with some spamming he did 3 years ago and used xrumer to enter 300.000 links to my blog. Google deleted my front page and the results for both my nick […]

After upgrading to WordPress 3.1.3 i get this error when I post news articles via Windows Live Writer: “Invalid Server Response – The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.” .

Some years ago, it took me a couple of hours to download and upload the files from one hosting to another. Now, i move them ftp2ftp via shell access, i update the new IP in the dns zone and in 10 mins the site is moved.

Facebook’s like could be the next bookmark manager. Save and tag and could be the replacement for del.icio.us.

In teh past few days i’ve been approached by people asking or offering me easy jobs. Consulting or seo or other stuff like that. There is no challenge in optimisation. The real challenge is finding something new to write about. And doing it creatively and making people think and interact with your text.

Localized search. I want to refine my search results to include only romanian sites. Can’t do that. Can’t do that? GoodBye Blekko!