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It’s time to stop with the fake HD video obsession?

31 July 2013

ArsT Technica has a long article about how YouTube stumbles at peak hour and it’s all the cable companies’ fault. Somehow true, the video consumption has grown in the past years and cable companies have a hard time providing the pipe necessary for that. This happens also with telecom companies and smartphone usage. But the […]

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More pageviews, more money…

8 December 2012

I’m half-way through “Trust Me, I’m Lying” by Ryan Holiday and I could not help myself notice the similarities of blogs like Gawker and Business Insider to Romanian news sites in the domain of shocking titles and fake articles. The question is when or how will it end.

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Mobile app idea for brands subjected to forgery

15 May 2012

Our good friend Vivi is looking for ideas and recently i found a good one. Every clothing and perfume brand has an online store with a database a consumer can check for fake products. But every brand has it’s own online site and not everybody can go with a laptop and mobile internet shopping. So […]

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Cheap and fake cache for your blog

2 January 2012

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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Dragoş Roua’s personal brand

6 December 2010

So, there is this Romanian guy, Dragos Roua, who talks a lot about success and entrepreneurship and leading a better life. You know the kind, he is not an expert in any field, but he is riding the “write bullshit about being better” blog train that gullible people read and find useful. Dragos Roua used […]

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Congrats to Jason Calacanis

31 January 2010

He single-handed exposed the weak tech journalism. Using his twitter account, Mr.. Calacanis started posting fake and easy guess-able Apple iPad specs, ours ago before the official announcement. Some journalists believe him and posted “the news” on their sites. Of course, now they feel dumb, and I agree with Loren they should be, if they […]

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A lesson in progress and business

30 December 2009

From Fake Steve Jobs. My favorite part is: …what the fuck has gone wrong with our country? Used to be, we were innovators. We were leaders. We were builders. We were engineers. We were the best and brightest. We were the kind of guys who, if they were running the biggest mobile network in the […]

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