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The Google Story: Sergey & Larry

by Radu Panciuc on January 24, 2011

Tweet Bloomberg’s Game Changers is quite an interesting documentary about Google’s founders – Sergey Brin and Larry Page – starting from their first meeting at Stanford till today’s new media mega-company which is on a collision course with the old media businesses like newspapers, books, television and movies. The video is around 50 minutes long [...]

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Meet Michelle

by Radu Panciuc on November 27, 2010

Tweet Michelle is an old friend of mine from favit. We worked together on my last project there. I am saying this because I just saw that my ex-colleagues are working on something new and I realized that Michelle doesn’t fit there anymore. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the new favit and I am [...]

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High Hopes for Romania’s IT Hub

by Radu Panciuc on July 1, 2010

Tweet High Hopes for Romania’s IT Hub is a FT documentary presenting Cluj-Napoca, a student town in Transylvania which made a name for itself in the fields of IT, software, and services, becoming a hub for outsourcing. FT interviews Sergiu Biris, founder of Trilulilu - the Romanian YouTube replica, and mentions Nokia as one of the important [...]

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The Hidden Influence of Social Networks

by Radu Panciuc on May 15, 2010

Tweet Great TED talk about how social networks affect our lives and what we can do to take advantage of this fact. Nicholas Christakis argues that many traits can easily spread from person to person and that your location within a network might impact your life in a way you would never think of. If [...]

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The Semantic Web

by Radu Panciuc on May 12, 2010

Tweet Kate Ray is a NYU student who has done extensive research regarding the semantic web. The outcome is presented in this 14 minute long video where she interviews researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. The Semantic Web is all about the huge amount of data with the context and relationships behind and between those data. Just [...]

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Fundamental Shift in Communication

by Radu Panciuc on May 10, 2010

Tweet Socialnomics updated the Social Media video with the latest information regarding the world we live in and how fast things change. I took a moment and extracted 20 of the most important facts I found in this presentation: Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30 96% of them have joined a Social [...]

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@Anywhere on WordPress

by Radu Panciuc on April 22, 2010

Tweet Last week Twitter launched it’s @Anywhere platform which let’s you integrate their service into your personal blog or site. Since I like testing new things I decided to give it a try and, as you could already see in the Contact section, or in some blog posts with @Mentions, I already installed it on [...]

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The Internet of Things

by Radu Panciuc on April 19, 2010

Tweet The planet has grown its own central nervous system. Interesting video describing the complex ecosystem of our offline world propagated by the Internet and nowadays and future technologies. via Thomas Power.

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