Recently, Business Week Magazine named Loic one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Loic Le Meur was also named “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. He advises the World Economic Forum as well as covers the Annual Summit every year in Davos. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in San Francisco, California.
You can meet him LIVE at the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest, Romania. Continue reading ‘Business Week Magazine: “one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web” – Loic Le Meur comes to WBF, Bucharest’
Fascinating stories I hear every day from the guys in Bucharest setting up the World Blogging Forum.
For example, some of the bloggers they wanted to invite are imprisoned because they were talking about online activism as the government wanted to send a signal to other online voices in order to keep silent. This is the case of the case of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli in Azerbaijan – it seems that OSCE, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders etc already following the case closely. Continue reading ‘Wael Abbas: torture, abuses and censorship – blogger shares experiences at the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest’
IAB published a press release regarding their new standards for the local market (details here) after the general assembly held yesterday.
Cristian Petriceanu was confirmed as IAB president in Romania, representing InformMedia in the board.
Congratulations to Cristi and to IAB for their latest campaign!
This september, BIZ Magazine asked me to say a few thoughts in an interview regarding Internet marketing in Romania.
The cover story they published this month is related to internet marketing and online advertising. I reccomend you to buy the magazine and read and read it from scratch. Continue reading ‘BIZ Magazine cover story – Internet Marketing’
The Open Internet Coalition sent Letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski Supporting Open Internet Rules.
The letter is signed by 24 CEOs and founders representing the world’s leading Internet and technology companies (eg Facebook, Sony, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, and Google) and they say their support the effort to protect an open Internet.
Continue reading ‘Open Internet Coalition – Letter of Support to FCC’
During the last months we’ve heard on TV that people used twitter, youtube or facebook to send news and updates from conflict zones all over the world. We witnessed it in Georgia in 2008 and in Moldova in 2009 – now, two of the twitter correspondents will join the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest:
Giorgi Jakhaia a.k.a. Cyxymu’, is a Georgian blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated series of attacks on social networking sites Facebook, Google Blogger, Live Journal and Twitter.
Cyxymu’s Russian-language LiveJournal blog was a source of information from Georgia for the news media during the 2007 state of emergency and 2008 South Ossetia war. Continue reading ‘Twitter Revolutions – conflict zone online correspondents joining World Blogging Forum in Bucharest’
I was surfing the guests invited to attend the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest and I’ve noticed that Dvorit Shargal, famous for her israeli blog called Velvet Underground, has the blog hosted on a public platform powered by Orange Israel: Continue reading ‘Orange blogging platform I’
I’m more eager every day to meet the bloggers attending the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest this November. One of the first persons to confirm his presence in Romania, Ramon Stoppelenburg, has quite a story:
The Dutch Ramon Stoppelenburg (1976) started blogging from his student loft somewhere in 1998. But he became world famous for being the first ever person to travel the world for free, totally relying on the hospitality of strangers from all over the world, who invited him over through his website www.letmestayforaday.com. Continue reading ‘Ramon Stoppelenburg, the Internet Personality of the Year – guest speaker at the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest’
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009.
“Google had a strong quarter–we saw 7% year-over-year revenue growth despite the tough economic conditions,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “While there is a lot of uncertainty about the pace of economic recovery, we believe the worst of the recession is behind us and now feel confident about investing heavily in our future.”
Google reported revenues of $5.94 billion for this quarter , an increase of 7% compared to the third quarter of 2008. Full report here…
Global Forum in Romania – 19th-18th Oct 2009
Global Forum is an annual international and independent event, a Think Tank dedicated to the Economic, Political and Social issues related to the successful evolution of the Information Society. Continue reading ‘Information Society – Events to follow in Bucharest’
Take any voice and turn it into music. Sounds good:
Continue reading ‘Viral: Auto-Tune iPhone app’
I had three interesting conversations with three friends and I’ve decided to write in this post some conclusions based on research, books, experience and so on. Of course, this might explain my daily behavior and why I always have a big smile on my face and I’m never nervous no matter what people are saying :)
1. Nucleus accumbens – the craving spot is in our brains
In April I was blogging about Buyology, the latest book signed by Martin Lindstrom. I finally managed to buy it and the book is filled with useful learnings. One interesting chapter covers the study conducted among smokers – the result showed that cigarette warning labels not only fail to reduce smoking but they activate the nucleus accumbens (craving spot) in their brains and encourage smokers to light one 
-”Instead of save lives, become a killer marketing tool for tabacco industry” says Lindstrom in his book.
Don’t smoke! Can cause cancer
Continue reading ‘7 thoughts for new media communications regarding rumors, neuromarketing, bad publicity and notoriety’
