Written by Mihai Dragan on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: adwords, economy, facebook, future, itunes, online markets
I studied economics in college. We used to learn a lot about the way things used to work and I remember even now that we had only 10 or 15 pages, at the end of the international economics manual, describing the future economy, the perfect economy, the Internet economy.
Reading the fact that during a recession Amazon had a 68% boost in revenues, I can’t help but wonder why would business even bother going the usual “brick-and-mortar store” way.
I strongly believe that online market business will continue to thrive – Google did (AdSense and AdWords), Apple did (iTunes and the App Store are basically online music and software markets), Amazon did, even Facebook did (social gaming market – mostly built on Facebook’s infrastructure – is estimated to reach $5 Billion by 2013).
The internet is full of these success stories. When you look beyond the marketing, the products delivered and the different brands, all the big guys are just huge online markets, delivering streams of 1 and 0.
Written by Mihai Dragan on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: experiment, facebook, myoritza, share, social media, twitter
My friends, today we made art. Mixed art. Transmedia art. Call it whatever but we took one of the oldest Romanian poems (Miorita – romanian for The Sheep – an allegory of life and death, crime and betrayal), mixed it with a little twitter API voodoo, added some cool and fresh design, social media sharing features and made it sparkle: I give you Myoritza 2.0.
The four characters in the Poem were given Twitter accounts and through a little programming magic we made sure they say their part just when they were supposed to.
It was really successful but stay tuned for this result. We had fun doing it, I know people had fun watching it.
Written by Mihai Dragan on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: facebook, google, perezhilton.com, traffic, twitter
Apparently yes. This AdAge article states that for some websites (including celebrity gossip blogger PerezHilton.com and some social networks like CafeMom and less known Twitter) facebook has been sending more visits than Google.
This might seem a little odd as Facebook has less than a third of Google’s traffic. An explanation might be the fact that users are less focused and tend to “click around” while socializing with friends.
Is Google loosing ground to younger web applications like Facebook or even Twitter? Sure. Are these companies threatening Google’s supremacy? Not really. But the times are ever-changing.
