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The Tangible Effects of Twitter & Facebook
Image by Camera Slayer via Flickr There are only a couple of hours left in 2009. People already started sending a lot of messages with good wishes, but this year something is drastically different. I did not get a single SMS yet and most of th...
Trend-o-rama
Slides for a talk at MobileMonday Slovenija in Kiberpipa. It is an overview of trends that will probably shape the mobile world in 2010 and beyond. Nothing here is really new as we have been talking about this topics for the last few years, but some ...
Juggling
Image via Wikipedia Apparently we all need to be jugglers sooner or later. I do not intend to write about juggling with balls, but about juggling with roles in our lives. juggle v. jug·gled, jug·gling, jug·gles v.tr. 1. To keep (two or more...
The Internet of Things
Approximately a month ago I had the chance to listen to a very inspiring talk by Alexandra Sonsino from tinker.it. Her talk really made me think about how the things that surround us could be very well connected to the virtual (mata) wolrd we experie...
Waving around
I got my Wave account a while ago, but I was not using it as none of the people I communicate with, was using the service. Last week I nudged to become an active Wave user as the backchannel of eComm Europe 09 was split between the latest Google prod...
Quitting an Addiction - No More Coffee
Image by tomazstolfa via Flickr 10 days ago I stopped drinking coffee. This wouldn’t be a worthy news if I wasn’t an avid coffee drinker and a huge Illy fan. I have been drinking between 4 to 6 espressos or cappuccinos per day (not...
Constant Interruptions and Fake Multitasking - How I Fight Them
Image by ….Tim via Flickr This blog post is inspired by Lenart J. Kučić’s article in Delo and Azaaza’s blog post about multitasking. With so many communication channels the chance of being interrupted has rose drastically in th...
Socialnomics - Stunning Data About Social Media
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The Art of Listening
Image by P.J.M. *extremely slow on flickr sorry* via Flickr I’ve known this for a while but this last month has proved to me once again, that listening to feedback is one of the most important skills (yes, I regard it as a skill) one should...
Two and Counting
Image by tomazstolfa via Flickr Ok, Funky.Karaoke is celebrating its second birthday today - it all started on July, 27th, 2007 - on day after my 25th birthday. It has been a great year with many amazing experiences and many well accepted posts. I...
Being indispensable
Image by tomazstolfa via Flickr From time to time I like to look back and think for a while until I draw some (hopefully smart) conclusions that could come handy when planning the future. I’ve been thinking about future challenges for a whil...
Polisihing a Product
Image via Wikipedia I think this might be one of the hardest tasks. You already see the finish line but you still need to take care of those dirty details and put an enormous effort to make it perfect (or as perfect as it gets). A while ago, in ...
Where are the Real Nerds of Today?
Image via Wikipedia This is a question I’ve been asking myself for quite some time and has reached the peak yesterday when @lowk3y told me that he is seriously thinking about stopping POT (weekly open source talks in Kiberpipa). Since coding...
A Thing or Two About Marketing
Image by tomazstolfa via Flickr Today, I read an interesting post about what marketing is supposed to be and how IT/software companies do not understand the role of marketing or underestimate it. I don’t know what is going on in all companie...
Telco + Web : Quest for The Killer Combo
Image by World’s Worst Photographer In The World via Flickr Yesterday I gave a speech at Vitel - a hardcore telco workshop where convergence, SIP and IMS are the most loved words. I was invited to talk a bit about how we see the future of t...
Why Don’t We Switch Our Focus 100% on the New Stuff?
Image by ToniVC via Flickr Why Don’t We Switch Our Focus 100% on the New Stuff? That was a really smart question from a member of my team today.This question is much deeper than it might seem at first. From time to time we would all love to ...
Money vs. Passion
Since I started working for real (about three years ago) I firmly decided that I will stick to my principles. One of these is that I work on things I love and I believe in and not on thing that bring money but are not fun or right. I decided that I w...
ECommConf ‘09
Image via Wikipedia Note: This post is being updated as the conference continues. I will add links to presentations as soon as they are available I am a the Emerging Communications Conference going on in San Francisco this week. Here is the offi...
We Are All Fu***d
Google did it again. In just a couple of days Google shook the mobile landscape more than a really huge earthquake. Google launched Latitude and Sync for mobile in quick sequence, just before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What are the impli...
We Are All Fu***d
Google did it again. In just a couple of days Google shook the mobile landscape more than a really huge earthquake. Google launched Latitude and Sync for mobile in quick sequence, just before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What are the impli...
The Future of Gaming is Bright - Video Gaming Trends
I should start believing in coincidences. I am getting more and more involved in gaming and games development with Qootia and with some experiments we are currently doing at Marand. In the last few weeks I am getting the impression that games are all...
The Future of Gaming is Bright - Video Gaming Trends
I should start believing in coincidences. I am getting more and more involved in gaming and games development with Qootia and with some experiments we are currently doing at Marand. In the last few weeks I am getting the impression that games are all...
Days of Thunder
The last two weeks have been really packed with action. Mainly because we (Marand) were preparing for the HP Communications World in Vienna. We showed some of the new stuff coming into production really soon in addition to a set of established produc...
Days of Thunder
The last two weeks have been really packed with action. Mainly because we (Marand) were preparing for the HP Communications World in Vienna. We showed some of the new stuff coming into production really soon in addition to a set of established produc...
Future of Mobile 2008 - London - Conference day
Warning: This post includes a rant! Please do not read it if you are easily offended. I attended the Future of Mobile conference in London organized by Carsonified. I must say I was very disappointed because of some organizational fails. I was expec...
Future of Mobile 2008 - London - Conference day
Warning: This post includes a rant! Please do not read it if you are easily offended. I attended the Future of Mobile conference in London organized by Carsonified. I must say I was very disappointed because of some organizational fails. I was expect...
The Canary is Dead = Something is Wrong in Venture Capital
I promise this is the last slideshow on VC's, the financial crisis or any similar topic this month. Slide no 13 tells a lot on why the economy is broken and companies that run on VC fuel will have a hard time if they do not bring enough long term val...
The Canary is Dead = Something is Wrong in Venture Capital
I promise this is the last slideshow on VC’s, the financial crisis or any similar topic this month. Slide no 13 tells a lot on why the economy is broken and companies that run on VC fuel will have a hard time if they do not bring enough long te...
Democratization of Experiences
Last week, while flying back from St. Petersburg (Russia) I was watching a series of TED Talks to kill the time. One of these talks made me think how the many hours of video games I played as a kid are manifesting on my behavior and character.After t...
Democratization of Experiences
Last week, while flying back from St. Petersburg (Russia) I was watching a series of TED Talks to kill the time. One of these talks made me think how the many hours of video games I played as a kid are manifesting on my behavior and character. After...
