Lifetime “.ro” near to end
Almost one year ago, after discussions with the representatives of the TLD authority for Romania (ROTLD), I was announcing the change of the law. The system worked, and the Romanian Government wanted to make this change as it does in every case : to force the change...
Lords of the Board
A very interesting online initiative comes from the UK Parliament. The program contains a Blog and YouTube Channel meant to educate young British in politics matters. Maybe somebody will suggest to Romanian politicians to activate two FREE online tools. Social...
Internet Business in 2008
I was reading today about a website you can use if you are not inspired in naming a brand. Namethis.com is basic a social network website doing professional work. The website gets 99 USD for this brainstorm and the user gets prizes. Everything is on a social software...
Interesting approach of Ursus
After the Beer War (nobody knows who won) , Ursus gets creative again. An interesting view of the creatives 🙂 As Euro 2008 is coming ... get some fresh beer ! Hai Romania !
Romania-Franta, Euro 2008
It is well-known that Romanians are likely to fall in an one-to-one contact on the field. A Toyota commercial speculates the Romania-France match, Euro 2008 (Monday 19.00 Romanian H)
Radio 21
Boom.ro will sell the advertising space for the website of Radio 21. A quick overview (according Tafic.ro tools) for first week of June / Searches for RADIO 30.251 radio 21 14.580 radio manele 12.393 radio 9.941 radio online 6.089 radio romantic 5.910 radio live 2.029...
Sofia. Bulgaria. Opinion
2 main opportunities bring me to Sofia last week : MI Forum and the sooner launch of E-Academy For the second in few days will be more information. I want to talk about the first. "Many years ago there was an American Tobacco brand having 31 th place in sales....
Marketing Forum 2008 : Sofia
Thursday i will be in Sofia for Marketing Innovation Forum . 600 people will be there, especially Bulgarian Mass Media. Jay Conrad Levinson , the father of Guerilla Marketing, and the mentor of Ciprian's trainings, will be there. (I think I read the book in 2000 and...
Foreign Investitions in Romania
An article in Saptamana Financiara create a very good overview about foreign investitions in Romania. And below, you find the map with the counties where you should go to find a good opportunity in development. Best investors in Romania are from Holland, Austria,...
2,5 mil Euro for Trilulilu.ro
The YouTube like Romanian website Trilulilu.ro was sold today, 14 may 2008, to Alexis Bonte, a French businessman that owned 10% before (now he controls the company with 51%). The estimate for this website is 2.5 mil Euro so we can imagine the offer was aroud 1.5 mil...
WebClub, Olimpiade, Blogattack
Manafu did it again. Webclub is a very good initiative. Organized in the same way as Real Estate Investors' Society (REIS), the club will gather the most important people in Romanian Online and their partners. Thanks Mihai for the picture and you can see all the set...
Ziua Barbatului Reloaded
Last year i wrote about Men's Day ( Ziua Barbatului) . Why I remember this today ? - because it was a post with many responses in time - because today is again 5 May, the International Man Day (?) - because is a beer commercial war between the first and the second...
Top Romanian Hackers
Madalin is right when saying the Romanian Mass Media had a major impact over the under performance of E-commerce, because of the hype around hackers' actions. Every time a Romanian Hacker "does something" is very media-exposed and that's why Romanians are so afraid...
EU 2008 Internet Study
One year ago at the last EU Study on Internet usage in Europe : 18,4% of Romanians connected on Internet The new study places Romania on the last position in Europe (and Greece after us). Nothing changed since last year. But .... let's take a closer look. 31,1% is the...
Brands Blogs Cookies
Supporting student projects in Internet Baking Brands (14 aprilie) : Adrian Preda, Leo Burnett, Mirela Angelescu, GMP, Valentin Suciu, Odyssey Crisis Fill-In (15 aprilie) : Tereza Valcan, Cosmote, Mihaela Nicola, The Group, Virgil Munteanu, First One Communication...
Underclick.ro , 44.000 uniques
Well, Underclick.ro remains in March at the same level as in February: 44.000 uniques monthly . Document here. What is important : in May we will launch the Underclick 3.0 version and we will start the pan-european action. So, prepare for a new approach, more business...
Bulgarian Online Measurement
We were (with Adi) in a 3-days know-how exchange meeting in Bulgaria. I think in the following months we will talk more about Bulgaria because Underclick.ro will open a new office there. But first insight I want to give you about this market is linked to the way of...
Olimpiadele Comunicarii
Communication Olympics : Last 7 days 4 You to subscribe . I say it is a good idea to try. A better chance for you to be hired. Coca Macarena
Something went wrong
Dedication to my Fishing Brothers : Cezar & Ionut Something went wrong…
Lawyers, spam and insanity
As i said in a previous post there was a fine for Urban & Asociatii. There were like the all-internet-data-gathering. We made an internal address we used it not in public reasons. We received the "newsletter" even on that address ! I think is normal to be punished...
Leonard Cohen Bucuresti
Leonard Cohen will be in Bucharest, 14 July 2008. For Underclick.ro is an honor to contribute at the website (you can see it it in 1 week). For me is a great opportunity to see a singer that make me good through his music. From Wikipedia: Leonard Norman Cohen, CC...
Marius Ghenea 39 8 14 45
When I first read about Marius (more than 5 years ago) I said : This is a man of a kind. When I talked to him first time it was more listening to him.(3 years ago) After I had one business meeting with him (last year), I understood everything good I thought about him...
First SPAM fine in Romania
You arrive at office and turn on the laptop at 9.00 am in the morning, drinking your coffee. Push send/receive email to start the day. And here they are... my friends... Not again Urban&Asociatii (some lawyers) and Rentrop%Straton (some publishing house) ! The...
Russian Internet Business Conference
CIB-2008 The biggest Internet event in Russia. Third edition. Official announced (although is not in English). 16th-18th April 2008 at the luxurious BOR hotel just outside Moscow. Over 2000 visitors last year. Presence: Yandex, Begun, Mail.ru, Rambler and Google. 120...
225 mil $ for Digg ?
Digg has been valuated at somewhere between $200 and $225 million (down from what they were worth last year). Google and Microsoft are both apparently making moves to purchase the social tech and news community, and the end result may be a bidding war between the two...
Mobile Broadband
The study is for USA Market and if we keep up the proportions maybe is the same in Romania (although Romanians are more likely to use this kind of devices because of the "show off" mentality ) The number of computers using mobile devices for broadband Internet (paid...
OpenID in Romania
Last week i was talking to a friend in Pitesti, who wanted to make a Romanian trusted system in order not to have different user and password for thousands of websites in Romania. I told him this is a big project and requires a lot of logistics and the conclusion was...
Romanian Internet Jobs
I received from Alin via LinkedIn a request to recommend somebody on the following positions. So, if you are interested to work for New Media Agency i suggest to go to the funny recruiting website . People required for : Internet Guru Master of accounts Master SEM...
No More White Feather
Thanks to Zoso, Clubafaceri renounced providing irrelevant content to users. (original by Mihai Serb) Is this one of the "soon" major announcements in Romanian online?
Romania wins the European Championship
Yesterday night, Romania (the National men soccer team), made the first move for winning the European Championship. They let the Israeli team to beat us and made a miserable match, in order the other teams in the group (Italy, France, Netherlands) to underestimate us....
