Posts tagged with:people

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 […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]

Ian Clifton makes a lot of good points about the superiority of Android over iOS. I agree with him on all counts, Android is a technologically better product. But… iOS does a very good job at keeping things simple and a lot of users want that. I don’t want a widget on my screen. I […]

The first reason that comes to mind is the one everybody knows: the PC is almost dead. But, there is more to it that that. Dell never had good products. It had cheap products. Mediocre products. Not having good products made people look for alternatives and as soon as it found them. Dell existed only […]

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 […]

In the last few weeks I have become aware of two companies going bankrupt one due to mismanagement and one due to supporting the wrong party for the elections. The people I care for in this companies try to play it out, even after I asked them to find another jobs, because they think things […]

Google Reader is shutting down, citing low usage. I understand, RSS has never been popular thing. But rather than ask 50$/year for a service a lot of people were using and be glad to pay that money, Google is shutting it down. FeedBurner is next, citing same RSS is dead thing. And then maybe Gmail.

Last year, i was so impressed with the capabilities of SLT technology I sold my Canon 60D for an A57. One year later, I really can’t stand it anymore. The problems are as follow: Noise. I shoot a lot of pictures indoors. Family events, two grandsons playing, products. And I shoot on Auto ISO. The […]

Some months ago, a US friend came to visit and we chatted a bit about social media . We were balls deep in Facebook and Twitter and felt like we discovered the world. They passed that some time ago. Sure, Facebook has a lot of visitors and interactions, but the smart people have found ways […]

It’s been in the news, but there is no secret to Romanian IT professionals that ROTLD (the manager for Romanian internet domains) is behind its times in security and management (and even in communication skills, since the Tuesday incident has not been addressed in any way by ROTLD officials and not even mentioned on their […]