As you probably know, Wall Street Journal’s columnist James Altucher wrote an article about his perception of the Internet as a business medium and, most important, as an investment option. According to Altucher, the Internet is dead. And he gives examples like AOL, Microsoft, MySpace and even Google. ... Read more
As any other human being interested in the fate of his kind, I watched the news regarding the celebration of 40 years since the Moon landing. But I couldn’t fail noticing that it really seems to be a PR campaign rather than a celebration. And I’ll try to ... Read more
Sometimes, I think people either dream with their eyes wide open, or they’re just stupid. A Swedish firm, Global Gaming Factory, acquired The Pirate Bay for 4,6 million euros (about $6,4 million) “in a bid to legitimize the illegal file sharing service”. What does that mean? Because I ... Read more
Martin Sorrell is the CEO of the WPP Group. Someone thought it would be really funny to mock the big chief at WPP. How? By creating him a Twitter account and respond to people, one one hand in a really funny arrogant way. If you want to have some fun, you should follow the guy. ... Read more
Washington Post publishes an article from The Associated Press regarding a start-up in San Francisco. AP reports that Steve Brill, formerly known as the founder of Court TV and American Lawyer, is going for a “news business”. What does that mean? His news start-up, Journalism Online, is supposed to get news from all kind of sources and give them to the internet users throughout subscriptions. Users will supposedly pay $300 a year for reading news from publications all over the world. Why do I think it’s going to fail, read below. ... Read more
I think it was 1994. We had a lame one cassette tape stereo player with radio and some recording options. I was in my room, listening on medium volume “Black or White”, dancing, jumping in the bed, trying to copy Michael’s moves. I was 10 years old and the borrowed cassette tape was the coolest thing I had done that month. “It’s too loud, turn it off! I hate that monkey music!”, my dad yelled from the kitchen. Instead of that, just like Macaulay Culkin in the video, I pumped up the volume to max. ... Read more
Google Blogoscoped, one of the most famous blogs about Google, had this cool idea of making a list with all – I guess, though I’m not sure – the services Google has and, most important, that could bring real money to the company. It’s actually kind of strange that in period of crisis, everyone talk about other people’s money. But hey, it’s Google! ... Read more
Even if you do know the answer to this question, what is the probability that you end up here, for your summer holiday? Let’s face it: you’re interested in Romania as much as I am interested in how do snails reproduce. And now, while reading this, you’re probably asking yourself: What or who the fuck is Romania? ... Read more
If you’ve seen Babylon A.D., then you might have seen Google’s product placement. In the South European country Vin Diesel lives, he watches the news using a live streaming news service provided by Google. It’s like Google has it’s own TV network. There are chances that it’s a one time presentation for this idea. I don’t know if Google had it or if it came from some guy working with the movie crew, but it’s absolutely brilliant. Let’s talk about this idea and let’s find out what are the chances to come true. ... Read more