Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Naspers cumpara ePayment
marți, octombrie 12th, 2010Stirea detaliata e in ZF, dupa ce au cumparat Autovit.ro, sud africanii de la Naspers cumpara 83% din ePayment confirmand astfel intentiile pe care le au in zona de ecommerce licitatii anunturi microplati la nivel de .ro. Felicitari lui Radu Georgescu! Si de vazut daca sud africanii/polonezii se vor intelege cu Siminel pentru a cumpara Okazii :)
Ceva fin despre industria muzicala
joi, octombrie 7th, 2010They fly out to Cupertino and let Steve Jobs smack them around and then fly home and try to take every dime they can get out of start-ups in order to make them feel better about themselves.”
The fact that Google is now interested in getting serious about a music play has gotten every record company lawyer wet in the pants. They think that this is going to be a game changer. It won’t be. People forget that, just because it’s Google, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be a hit. They’ve had plenty of bombs. Remember Google Wave and Buzz?
De citit tot materialul – The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future – merita.
Probabil ca Google Music, combinat cu Android-ul la nivel de mobil, ar putea concura cu iTunes + iPod, dand sperante unei industrii care traieste din amintiri :) Pareri?
Patru cu Eric
marți, octombrie 5th, 2010imi place din ce in ce mai mult, in fiecare luna ne mai arunca niste „firimituri” despre ceea ce vor sa faca/vor face la Google:
Ce spunea in martie, conform Fortune:
In one of the sharper exchanges of the afternoon, a questioner challenged Schmidt with the fact that Google is collecting a staggering amount of information about who we are, what we’re thinking, and even where we are. “All this information that you have about us: where does it go? Who has access to that?” (Google servers and Google employees, under careful rules, Schmidt said.) “Does that scare everyone in this room?” The questioner asked, to applause. “Would you prefer someone else?” Schmidt shot back – to laughter and even greater applause. “Is there a government that you would prefer to be in charge of this?”
Ce declara in august, in WSJ:
Let’s say you’re walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, „we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are.” Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there’s a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you’ve been reading about took place on the next block.
Ce declara in septembrie, intr-un interviu la tv, facandu-i pe cei de la All Things Digital sa spuna ca a definit Borg-ul din Star Trek:
What we’re really doing is building an augmented version of humanity, building computers to help humans do the things they don’t do well better
Ce declara pe 1 octombrie, adica acum 4 zile, in The Atlantic:
With your permission, you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.
Va urma
De citit
luni, octombrie 4th, 2010doua despre oameni, doua despre sistem:
1. Mark Zuckerberg’s Most Valuable Friend – New York Times
2. 7 Priceless Business Quotes from Warren Buffett – Joseph Wesley
3. The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet – Wired (apropo de Wired, numarul din septembrie pt iPad are aproape 500 de mega … cam mult)
4. The web’s new walls – The Economist
Siteuri noi in Apropo Media
miercuri, septembrie 29th, 2010Din octombrie, publicitatea pe siteurile de mai jos va fi vanduta de Apropo Media, iar saptamana viitoare vom anunta alte siteuri care vor intra in portofoliul nostru in perioada urmatoare.
„Duios Anastasia trecea”
sâmbătă, septembrie 25th, 2010Departamentul de Justitie al guvernului american a ajuns la un acord cu 6 companii de top americane, Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, Pixar, Intuit Inc., cerandu-le acestora sa nu mai intre in intelegeri de tip „nu ne atacam angajatii”. Acordul va trebui aprobat de o instanta judecatoreasca pentru a evita actionarea in judecata a celor 6 companii. Dovezile intelegerilor le aveti mai jos:
1. Beginning no later than 2006, Apple and Google executives agreed not to cold call each other’s employees. Apple placed Google on its internal “Do Not Call List,” which instructed employees not to directly solicit employees from the listed companies. Similarly, Google listed Apple among the companies that had special agreements with Google and were part of the “Do Not Cold Call” list;
2. Beginning no later than May 2005, senior Apple and Adobe executives agreed not to cold call each other’s employees. Apple placed Adobe on its internal “Do Not Call List” and similarly, Adobe included Apple in its internal list of “Companies that are off limits”;
3. Beginning no later than April 2007, Apple and Pixar executives agreed not to cold call each other’s employees. Apple placed Pixar on its internal “Do Not Call List” and senior executives at Pixar instructed human resources personnel to adhere to the agreement and maintain a paper trail;
4. Beginning no later than September 2007, Google and Intel executives agreed not to cold call each other’s employees. In its hiring policies and protocol manual, Google listed Intel among the companies that have special agreements with Google and are part of the “Do Not Cold Call” list. Similarly, Intel instructed its human resources staff about the existence of the agreement;
5. In June 2007, Google and Intuit executives agreed that Google would not cold call any Intuit employee. In its hiring policies and protocol manual, Google also listed Intuit among the companies that have special agreements with Google and are part of the “Do Not Cold Call” list.
Toate detaliile aici
P.S 1. Pentru autoritatile romane, recunosc, am avut o incercare de intelegere cu Fusu pe tema „nu ne atacam angajatii” in perioada cand eram la Netbridge, piata era insa prea mica atunci.
P.S. 2. Pentru mai tinerii cititori care nu inteleg titlul, „Duios Anastasia trecea” este nuvela de citit a lui D.R. Popescu, pe vremea tineretii mele era lectura obligatorie in liceu si subiect de bac, nu mai stiu cum e acum.
q + 2 + m
vineri, septembrie 24th, 2010q2m.ro = regia de publicitate la care Dragos Stanca lucreaza in ultima vreme. Dupa ce nu a reusit sa convinga a discutat cu Intactul, Sanoma sau Internet Corp sa se alature proiectului, Dragos a gasit un partener, Mediapoint, regia ce va vinde publicatiile si siteurile trustului Adevarul regie manageriata de Sorel Radu, ex director de vanzari Publimedia/Mediafax, ex director de vanzari Realitatea Catavencu (divizia print) si fost coleg cu Dragos la Publimedia. Mediapoint o va avea ca director de vanzari pe Irina Morosanu, mana dreapta a lui Dragos Stanca la F5.
Despre Mediapoint si Sorel Radu puteti citi detalii in Paginademedia, Adplayers sau Reporter Virtual
Probabil q2m va vinde siteurile ramase la Realitatea, siteurile Adevarul plus alte siteuri din piata, ramane de vazut daca impreuna vor reusi sa depaseasca cota de piata atinsa de F5 anul acesta. Pahomi puncteaza faptul ca Mediapoint isi propune sa atraga, in 2011, 2 mil euro pe siteurile trustului Adevarul, de urmarit, tinand cont ca impreuna, Sorel, Dragos si Irina, vor alcatui o echipa puternica.
Eric stie
miercuri, septembrie 22nd, 2010“The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.”
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, in WSJ
Pe scurt, Google Music
marți, septembrie 21st, 2010– Google vrea sa vanda melodii „la bucata”, pe modelul iTunes;
– Google ar dori sa le ofere userilor posibilitatea de a asculta orice melodie, gratuit, macar o data, pe modelul MySpace. Nu toate melodiile vor putea fi insa ascultate gratis;
– Google vrea sa ofere, pentru 25 USD pe an, posibilitatea de a-ti stoca muzica, indiferent de unde ai cumparat-o, pe un server. O poti asculta de acolo ori de cate ori doresti, online sau pe telefonul mobil;
– Cu serviciul de la Google vei putea da „share” prietenilor acestia avand posibilitatea de a asculta, doar o data, melodiile tale.
Detalii aici
De citit
vineri, septembrie 3rd, 2010Materialul cu Serban Alexandrescu din Hotnews, e printre putinii din .ro, din offline, care a inteles cum e treaba cu online-ul.