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The sad state of Romanian Tech Scene (startups, hubs etc)

4 April 2016

One of the things i dislike the most about the Romanian Tech Scene is the lack of real talk and real results. We have a dysfunctional domain management system, to begin with, and nobody talks about it because nobody wants to upset the powers that be. We also have a lot of programmers who don’t […]

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Cristian Petriceanu finds a new job, after Boom

13 June 2015

Former Managing Director of Boom advertising company (part of NCH Group) is the new Manager of Madhouse mobile advertising agency. So nice. Boom went bankrupt in 2009, following a disastrous management by Petriceanu and the sales team (Magda Zander and Gabriel Boacă, their favorite saying was “whatever money somebody elses gives you, we can go […]

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Why Facebook wants to host the news

26 March 2015

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

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Google is not a charity, indeed…

22 March 2015

Matt Rosof explains why Google does a lot of stuffing of their own products in their search Regardless of whether Google faces new charges, the thing to keep in mind is that Google is a for-profit company. Its products have to be good, otherwise nobody will use them. But they also serve the larger business […]

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Romanian blogosphere – where are we now

13 July 2013

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]

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2013 in Romanian Social Media

1 July 2013

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

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Lack of stability

30 April 2013

Is what kills me every day. And I think a lot of people are scared of going on their own for the same reasons. Not having a stable salary, not working in a calm market, not working in a professional-filled market. Romanian online was robust for the first trimester, but the outlook is bleak. April […]

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PC – bleak future

15 April 2013

There are three important things to note in the past few days. Erich Schmidt from Google saying that by 2020 every human on the planet will be online. Sure, this is not going to happen, and people cited lack of water or electricity, but he is on to something: it is easier to be online […]

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Bloggers, who are you writing for?

31 March 2013

We, some old bloggers, are having quite a laugh there days with a niche blogger that writes about medium and expensive products on his blog, ignoring that his audience is low and medium income. Five minutes on his blog and twitter account reveals that people love his clean brand and image, but do not have […]

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About Kim Dotcom’s MEGA

20 January 2013

Kim Dotcom, the released from prison owner of MegaUpload, download site used for filesharing pirated content, launched today a new site, MEGA. To sum it up, the service goes like this: why would anyone risk hosting anything with him? The End.

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