March 2006

Pandora versus Last.fm
Had a discussion a while ago with someone who will soon launch an internet radio station - I briefly talked to him about Last.fm. A very good post comparing Pandora with Last.fm may be relevant in this case.
Thumbstack
Looks clean and neat -- presentations on the web, I liked their pitch.
Romanian event of the day
Tom Peters is speaking in Bucharest - the event, as expected, is sold out, as there are not too many high profile speakers coming to Romania too often. TP slides are available here.
LaLa
Online market place for free exchange of used cds. With the obligatory beta label
Question of the day
Have you got any ideas on who is behind the Chupa Chups logo? Neither did I -- Salvador Dali [thanks Iulian]
Don't miss
The next net 25 categorized into 5 labels: social media, mashup and filters, the new phone, the webtop and under the hood.

Oh, btw, what would your first impulse be when reading "We plan to build 15 Internet companies in the next 36 months"? :)
web 2.0 reality check
very good reading
What American city are you?
quick way to find out via
word of the day
corruption or one of the differences bewteen USA and Romania.
Wetpaint
A new wiki tool
Question of the day
Do you trust Google with all of your data? -- context

Coincidentally I discussed a bit about it last night -- I don't see it as a problem from a business perspective since when Google becomes "evil" in any sense that would become a problem translated into a business opportunity other incumbents would jump on - consequently users would definitely switch. My only doubts would come from the governmental regulations though.
Netvibes opens up
Coolio -- for those not knowing already, Netvibes is a nice little dashbord-like app. (a la my Yahoo, Google Personalized Page et all) created by two French guys. I played with it sometimes last year and liked it.
Big ideas @ Berkley
An ecosystem for student-led projects - a $100k contest.
RSS at work
A really good RSS application -- for item shopping alerts. link via
A cool tool
Went over for a beer with a good friend of mine last night and had quite a geeky conversation from which I learnt about a cool wiki tool for PM and document collaborating: trac
The chart of the day
How to be an expert...So where are you on that chart? :)


click on it to enlarge
[thanks Iulian]
Seth @ Google
That's right, I am still catching up with last week's news - here's a good refresher of Seth's stories on a standard presentation he gave to some Google folks. [ via]
node 101
videoblogging in nyc
All you need to know about entrepreneurship
YCombinator's Startup School Wiki
Talk to your kids about blogging
Some of my readers may know that over at my Romanian blog there is an ongoing "who's who" contest on the Romanian blogosphere - a popularity gig of the most appreciated Romanian blogs. It certainly created an unexpected efervescence all around the space which basically brought into the public attention that the blogosphere may be on to something in Romania in to the near future. Anyways, that is the exact thought that I had when watching this.