I found myself asking the title question to a manager asking me for advice regarding a social media strategy he was paying a lot of money for. The strategy was simple and you’ve heard it before: build facebook apps, get more likes, get more shares, get more retweets. Nothing wrong with that, but where are [...]
Last night, in Bucharest it was hell. Young people fought with the police, threw stones, torched a car and broke windows. This is unusual for Romania, but it’s usual for the people doing it, because there are two types of people protesting: the football hooligans and the normal people. Unfortunately, the protest aimed at overthrowing [...]
Vimeo folks wrote me a nice letter a few days ago, noticing me they have removed a bunch of my videos from my account, videos that were breaking their rules. From 100+ videos, they removed half. I reviewed a few of them and asked myself, and them, how is this video, par example, breaking the [...]
Amongs Google PageSpeed ranking factors is one regarding a Content Delivery Network, that wants to use subdomains or a CDN for distributing content. IF you have basic DNS and HTML knowledge you can do these easy steps: add to your dns Aliases (A records) with the name cache1.yourdomain.com and cache2.yourdomain.com in order to point to [...]
I really hope the great blogging tool Windows Live Writer will get better over time. Here’s my wish list, in case anybody from Microsoft is listening: fixing the jpg-png transformation bug an option for a cropped thumbnail. an option for choosing my own thumbnail name. wordpress has the -100×100.jpg naming system, wlw has _thumb.jpg system. [...]