Posts tagged with:people

“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.

The smartphone update cycle is at a stop. Innovation has stopped and people do not hurry to buy the new phone, as the changes from year to year are not spectacular enough. So other than all eyes on China and other emerging markets, other ideas are nowhere to be found. NFC is sort-of dead, mobile […]

I feel sorry for Microsoft sometimes. Ok, not really. They used to be this big big bully that scared everyone and now is this big bully that plays alone on a playground, while all the other people moved to another one. I like how their closed ecosystem they loved so much 10 years ago is […]

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

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 […]

You go at 20 conferences a year. You have 3-4 workshops a year. When do you have time to experiment and find new ideas to speak of at these events? Do you have new ideas and experiences to tell? Or do you just rewrite what the big boys have found out a year ago and […]

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 […]

Before YouTube was bought by Google, people usually left them alone, allowing them to tons of stolen copyrighted videos. Soon after, it was raining with lawsuits. Now, things have calmed down, but there were a few dark years for YouTube’s lawyers. Same thing with Tumblr, which hosts lots of pr0n and lots of stolen content. […]

Dustin Curtis looks back at two ideas he thought were stupid when he heard them and turned out to be great. Happens a lot. Right now a lot of people are thinking the same about Google Glass, but they are not saying it, because it might turn out to be a huge hit, despite being […]

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 […]