Archive for the ‘Business Development’ Category

Google Wave: Revolutionary Web?

Google is poised to preserve its leadership in the global online industry through continuous innovations and development. One of the newest web applications that the giant is working on is Google Wave. Meant to be launched at the end of this year, Google Wave will be the next open source community web application, having email, [...]

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 11:09 am by Daniel · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Digi Cafe: Online Marketing in the Auto Industry

We’re deep within a global economical crisis in which one of the hardest hit industries is the auto industry, probably also because it is highly dependent on financial instruments because of its highly priced products. Despite the crisis, or maybe because of it, there are reasons to look at this industry and see how the [...]

WebClub and Online vs Offline

Last night I went at the Web-Club event organized by Cristian Manafu, an online industry networking and business development event where the main subject was the question “Is Online Overrated?” The debate was moderated by Bogdana Butnar and had among the guests Bogdan Naumovici, one of the well known figures of creative advertising in Romania. [...]

America on the Internet

If you want to grow your business and you’re looking at the Internet as a channel, bear these in mind (data is for the US 2008, but trends are global): Hours online: on average 15.3 hours online per week Top 10 purchases: books, clothes, travel, gifts, CD’s, videos, electronics, software/games, hobbies, computers/peripherals Internet activities: e-mail [...]

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm by Daniel · Permalink · Leave a comment
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RoNewMedia 3.0 Opened Registration

RoNewMedia, probably the largest event dedicated to Internet and New Media in Romania, is getting closer to its third iteration this year. Organized by F5WebCorp, the New Media Division of Realitatea-Catavencu Media Group, RoNewMedia 3.0 will tackle subjects such as online entrepreneurship, mobile web, marketing & communication, print & digital publishing, web tv, media planning, [...]

Top 100 Web 2.0 Apps & Their Business Models

Webware has recently published the top 100 best web 2.0 applications, as voted by the readers of the portal, as well as Internet users across the world. There were over 1.9 million votes cast in order to select these 100 applications. Here is the list, structured into a few categories: Audio Browsing Commerce & Events [...]

Posted on March 27, 2009 at 11:19 am by Daniel · Permalink · Leave a comment
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When in Doubt, Ask Your Customers

Driving home from work, the other day, I had an interesting customer experience. Close to my home, I stopped at a Mexican Fast Food place because I had no food at home and I didn’t feel like going out for food shopping that evening. Before I could look into the offering and choose what I [...]

Romania’s New Governance

On November 30, 2008, less than 50% of Romania’s eligible voters exercised their constitutional right for the Parliamentary Elections . Despite being the lowest voting presence since 1990, the results were not surprising at all. If two weeks ago the options for the Romanian Government were still a mental exercise, we now know the two [...]

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm by Daniel · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Netbridge Splits Once Again

Orlando reminded me today about something I knew of a long time ago, but I couldn’t communicate openly because it was an internal affair at the moment. In time, after I concluded my collaboration with Netbridge Development, I forgot about the matter since it wasn’t relevant for me anymore. However, one of the last projects [...]

Posted on December 12, 2008 at 6:16 pm by Daniel · Permalink · Leave a comment
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FICOD 2008 – Conclusions

This past weekend I was in a team building together with the New Media Division of Realitatea-Catavencu Group and I presented to my colleagues some of the ideas from FICOD2008. I will share with you some of these ideas as well, since I think that they’re important for the future development of the online industry [...]