June 2009

Been a long time since updating this blog. Maybe too long.

Two main reasons for that:

1. As most of the people who know me already know, the past 18 months or so kept me busy developing a few web-based consumer products for the Romanian market. Those products are metropotam which is the most popular online local city guide (or the Romanian version of Gothamist), invita which is an event management tool (evite or amiando for Romania), coolio which is a social shopping tool (not sure there's an non-Romanian version out there), urbee (mobile calendar for city events and going out places), 100eyes - photo sharing (Romanian version of Flickr), urbanbite which is a teens reommendation site and soon-to-be-formaly-launched metropotravel (leisure travelling recos). All those products were thought as functioning together under the same umbrella with a single-sing-on service and, presumably, is on its way to become the most visited Romanian platform for a cool social life for youngsters.

2. I moved all my communication, online networking, ideas sharing or random findings on twitter. I am more busier than ever and the little daily time that I have seems more suitable to a microblogging lifestyle. So if you're (still) interested in my random musings or whatever, you may as well start following me on twitter.

Other than that, I am also involved in a few other things, among which my older and dear Krogos, which just recently launched a new cool product that basically works as an Adobe Photoshop plugin that automatically converts a PSD file into XHTML+CSS standard compliant code. (recently launched, still in a alpha mode).

I also started recently to become more interested in online video under its all forms - it's still an infant industry with lots of technologies fighting their way to become dominant standards and, accordingly, lucrative models.