I live next to a McD restaurant and sometimes at night when I cannot sleep, I drop by to grab some fries which are my overt food sin. Lately I have been unable to get my fries in less than 15 minutes because the queues at the drive in are humongous. In the restaurant too.… [Read more…]
July 30, 2009
Publishing online is a constant, if not hefty, source of revenue from advertising. The plan is simple: you start a website, you generate loads of pages and then sell ads on those pages. The bigger the inventory – number of pages – the more ads you can sell (in theory, of course. In practice, recent… [Read more…]
June 2, 2009
If you work in advertising you have heard it by now: we want a viral. No, don’t bother to explain to anyone that you cannot MAKE a viral, but you can try to make a really really fun video and then try to make it GO VIRAL.I have been thinking about virals a lot lately,… [Read more…]
May 30, 2009
Recently much ado about nothing concerning Twitter. Why one does it/ Would you give it up/Are you loving or hating it?Two twitter conferences being planned, there is twitter hate [when you abuse unknown people on theT because you simply do not like their tweets although you follow them], twitter envy [where you don't get why… [Read more…]
January 11, 2009
Growing up I had a limited interest in Romanian medieval history, especially since they made us remember the exact dates of the reign of this or that king. What stuck with me was the story of Vlad the Impaler and his test for thieves and also a custom of most all Romanian kings (also to… [Read more…]
December 25, 2008
I have been spending these past couple of days trying to catch up with the books that have been piling up around my flat and lay there unread. By coincidence most of the titles I had with me were by American authors, Levison, Underhill, Hopkins, so after a while, as I was starting to feel… [Read more…]
December 1, 2008
Remember the wild rumor that Dr. Pepper was going to give out free cans to ALL Americans if Axl released Chinese Democracy? Well, he did and they did. Only you had to go online for a coupon. Here. Smart heh?And if you cannot think of five reasons this is smart, then you don’t understand marketing.LATER:… [Read more…]
July 1, 2008
A bunch of ambitious guys from Iasi are putting together their first conference in Bucharest. ‘Next online players’ is, hopefully, more a training than a conference [ which would explain the high price] CORRECTION: and there are no free seats but only limited seats, 30 to be more exact. The line-up is good and so… [Read more…]
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