Posts tagged Yahoo
400+ comments for a blank post
May 27th
Techcrunch did it again. Following Twitter‘s lack of availability during the last days, Michael Arrington posted a blank post that made over 400 comments in 2 days. Probably it will be one of the most popular posts of Techrunch all time. Just check some of the hillarious video comments 
This is somewhat similar to Bobby Voicu’s confirmation that he’s got the job as Romania Yahoo! Community Manager. Posts with no content but that convey a lot of insight.
And since we talked about Twitter, feel free to follow me in those moments of service availability 
Fun has begun on the market – HTTPool & Yahoo.ro
May 15th
HTTPool enters Romanian market as a full service online advertising network, following the market trends by bringing a combined approach to the Online Industry – full service agency & online advertising network. You can read the full story on Hotnews and a more detailed analysis on Doru Panaitescu’s blog. I met HTTPool’s CEO, Timotej, in Warsaw at the InternetCEE conference last november and he is a fun guy with a sound business focus and clear regional markets understanding. I was impressed that such a young guy can lead such a big operation, but I guess this is the way in the Online Industry. It’s funny that neither of the sources that bring us the news mention anything about Timotej.
Timotej Gala, Chief Executive at Httpool Internet Marketing Central and Eastern Europe (Balkan).
Timotej Gala is responsible for media-buying and Internet advertising operations in five CEE markets. Since 2003, when he joined the company, he has successfully positioned Httpool as the market leader in online marketing in South-East Europe. Furthermore, he actively promotes Internet marketing in the region presenting the latest trends and opportunities of online marketing through media and marketing events.
The other news comes from Bobby Voicu – romanian blogger & online evangelist – recently appointed Yahoo Romania Community Manager. Bobby had a very important guest on his online RadioLynx show – Darren Patterson, Yahoo Business Development Director for Emerging Markets, who announced Yahoo’s strategy for 2008&2009 in Romania. Apparently www.yahoo.ro will be online with localized content this fall (august-september). You can see the full story on ZF.
Also, Yahoo! Messenger, no1 social “network” in Romania (if you ask me), will have a localized (translated) version.
This will definitely be a fun year for the Online Industry in Romania
Later edit: quite a coincidence, Orlando posted a write-up about the same 2 events I mentioned above. Check the timestamps
Later edit 2: You can listen to the recording of Bobby Voicu interviewing Darren Patterson
Web Club #1
May 12th
[YahooLilu - Bobby Voicu (Yahoo! Romania Community Manager) & Sergiu Biris (www.trilulilu.ro Founder)]
Organized by Cristian Manafu/Evensys and proudly sponsored by Microsoft, first edition of Web Club took place last Thursday in Club Colocvio and gathered more than 90% of the online industry from Romania. The joke of the evening was that if something happened at the location (airplane crash, God forbid) probably the dot.ro business will freeze for a couple of years.
WebClub will consist of aprox. 10 meetings/year and access will be provided based on a membership fee. Access to new members will be granted based on recommendation from at least 2 current members. It’s a great opportunity for networking but also to get a sneak preview at exclusive presentations and news and probably in the future, a chance to meet with angel investors interested in the online business.
WebClub #1 consisted of some really interesting presentations from Vladimir Oane – about the a.Online entrepreneurship from Romania comparred to European one and b.Ubervu; the news that Calin Fusu (Neogen.ro) agreed to invest in Vertimo, a vertical search engine for local real-estate, created by Brainient (Emi Gal); great networking.
Here are my WebClub #1 Pictures – and more at Victor Kapra and Zoso.
Web-Club #1 by manafu.ro
More write-ups, mostly in Romanian: Orlando, Sergiu Biris, Florin Grozea, Radu, Victor Kapra, Emi, Noro, Ciprian Stavar
OpenSocial Foundation – everybody is in!
Mar 25th
Yahoo announced today that they will join OpenSocial and that’s not all, they are forming, together with Google and MySpace a new non-profit foundation – the OpenSocial Foundation, following the model of OpenID Foundation. The reason behind this is of course to be fully neutral but still get everybody involved in this project, at full throttle.
The funny part is that opensocial.org gets redirected to a page made with Google Sites, a product of Google Aps
A big surprise comes from Apache – they released an "incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets" called Shindig.
I find all this fuss extremely interesting for the web industry – including advertisers, strategists, developers and designers. Stay tuned for more "global" surprises.
via TechCrunch
