Matthias Lüfkens had a fast post on twitter and made me remind what I was doing 20 years ago and how Romania changed in the last two decades. I followed the link Matthias gave on twitter and discovered the video tour of the Parliament, a must see if you’re in Romania or in Bucharest for the holidays.
Standing 84m above ground level on 12 floors, the building has long been shrouded in mystery, rumour and hyperbole. Originally designed to house almost all the organs of the communist state, it today plays host to the Romanian parliament and a modern, well equipped conference centre, as well as Romanias Museum of Contemporary Art. Much of the building, however, remains unused. Join the official tour of Romania’s most famous building with tour guide Raluca Mitu. [full article and video tour here]
For more about the key sites in Bucharest check out Bucharest In Your Pocket.
Right now I’m in Paris but a few friends from Romania told me that they were working on a report for a non-governmental organization monitoring antisemitism online.
The mind blowing thing is that they also check to see who is financing bloggers of websites that promote racial hatered and antisemitism and that they discovered Vodafone paid advertising on blog pages: Continue reading ‘Vodafone Romania suspected of sponsoring antisemitism and discrimination’
Right now, at LeWeb, there is a fireside Chat with Nathalie Kosciusko Morizet, France Minister of State to the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy (Secrétaire d’Etat chargée de la Prospective et du Développement de l’économie numérique) and Loic Le Meur. Continue reading ‘The French Ministry of Internet – e-gov study case’
Augustin Roman replaced Sorin Danilescu as the General Manager of Intact Interactive, the sales agency part of Intact Media Group.
Sorin Danilescu manged the company and the Internet division of Intact Media Group for 4 months and from now on he will be focused on developing new websites for the group. Continue reading ‘Augustin Roman, The New General Manager at Intact Interactive’
The biggest internet event in Russia (more than 5.000 participants) is the Russia Internet Forum. As I’m surfing their website I can only think that It’s a good idea to register for 2010 – www.rif.ru. Continue reading ‘Russia Internet Forum – the biggest internet forum in Russia’
If you read my blog on regular basis you probably know that the Russian Internet market is very interesting for me and right now I’m very excited to hear and meet the “rock stars” of the Russian Internet at LeWeb – the panel is moderated by Jennifer L. Schenker, (Founder & Editor-in-Chie Informilo.com)
Panelists – Russia roundtable:
Right now at LeWeb, Ryan Sarver (Twitter) made a very important announcement for the developers all over the world – The first Twitter Developer Conference will take place in San Francisco in 2010.
More details on the official website: http://chirp.twitter.com/
After the guest speakers and events this morning, here are other interesting picks for the rest of the day (if you’re not in Paris you can check out the live video stream on the official website): Continue reading ‘LeWeb 2009 Agenda – very interesting to follow today’
Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) is now on stage #LeWeb and speaks about how their users are redefining twitter every day 
The live demo of the day – The Square is a hardware and software app used to communicate with the payment networks to complete transactions and transforms you phone into a POS. Continue reading ‘Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) – “The Square” live demo, LeWeb 2009, Paris’
This morning I’m doing live blogging from Paris – Over 2000 participants from 46 countries are here for the #1 European Internet event.
