Posts tagged with:romanian internet

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 […]

According to this badly written presentation, Rand Fishkin from SeoMoz will be present to an event called SEM Days in Bucharest on June 5th. Good for Romanian Search enthusiasts, they will have much to learn from him. But, upon further research, he will not be present in person, but will answer questions via skype. OK, […]

I’ve been involved in the Romanian Internet for over 6 years and during this time I’ve accumulated a lot of information. The least of my favorite part is the personal gossip. People fail to understand that a blogger writing about business decisions is not interested about who is leaving his wife for the secretary and […]

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

Four years ago, Razvan Varabiescu, head of an online agency, contacted me for an advertising campaign on blogs. I chose some of the blogs i thought fit for the job and ran the first advertising campaign on Romanian blogs. After that, i stayed in touch with the other bloggers and started to ran campaigns on […]

Since I left Bucharest (I’ve moved to Berlin, Oradea and now Brasov)  I’ve developed a personal brand strategy. I show up for a few conferences and gigs and people tend to cherish that. I don’t bore people with my presence every time there is an event remotely connected to online, even thought I get invited […]

Finally, some may say. Google has announced it will open an office in Bucharest, hiring a country manager (Dan Bulucea, who left in March from Microsoft Romania). Looking at Mr. Bulucea’s background, i can bet Google is here to offer support to business clients to spend more money on adwords.

Reading this left me with a strange feeling. I knew the same idea was being implemented by a romanian company under the name AdCaptcher for some time. Could it be the same company? I asked around, and it turns out it isn’t. It’s just the same idea made public by an american company.

“How to Web” is a new conference taking place in Bucharest sometime soon. Looking at the team in charge of the event, i couldn’t help notice some of the little lies. For example, Raluca Georgescu created “Raluk.ro, one of the most important local entertainment websites”. I never heard of it until yesterday, and i spend […]