Mircea Baldean

Who Might Be Watching Your LinkedIn Profile?

If you have met me, you probably know by now - I am sold to LinkedIn and it's benefits. Here is something to think about: Goldman Sachs made the headlines quite often over the last few months. Have you ever wondered why Goldman Sachs does not have a list of job ...

Sound bytes from the 2008 CMA Digital Marketing Conference

I had the pleasure to attend, for the 2nd year in a row, CMA's Digital Marketing Conference, on October 29 and 30, in Toronto. I have translated some of my notes into couple of sound bytes: Rob Master / Unilever To be successful in today's digital marketing landscape you need to figure ...

Chris Brogan is the Star

I’m not a big fan of widgets, but I’ll take the compliment: Chris Brogan says I'm a Rockstar! Chris, you are the star – some of us are just rocking along. I know, I owe you big. Thank you again!

How not to use LinkedIn

I have spent a great deal of time over the past week scouting for prospects on LinkedIn, to backfill a newly created position on my team, at work. I need someone really good, with a large set of skills, a "hybrid" if you will. What really struck me was more than ...

Tribes - or How to Get your Message Across

So I walk into Indigo the other day, looking to buy Godin's Tribes. I look it up on the computer to find its locations in the store: 20 items in "Business General" and I find the proper shelf, but guess what? No "Tribes" there. Well, the computer said there are ...

Adobe CS4 Launch Broadast

BBC study: consumers spending 25 minutes viewing streaming media on the web. When BBC moved from Windows platform to Flash the amount of people they were able to attract increased 8x. Watch the whole video:

Starbucks Twitters

Looks like Startbucks just entered Twitter land. Barista - a caramel macchiato and a tweet, please! Thanks!

This Is New Media

55 minutes on new means of expression. Enjoy!

Nokia Blogs…

I've been a Nokia junkie for years... Howdy to my friend, Lucian, over in Finland!

Internet Population

Michael Dell: Today there are about 1bn people attached to the Internet. Everyday, about 500,000 new ones come on the Internet for the very first time in their lives. So that means, the Internet population in 3-4 years is roughly gonna double. About 85% of the growth comes from emerging ...

Bell’s Flat World

I'm close to finalizing reading the book "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. Awesome book by the way! A good part of it touches upon outsourcing jobs to India, especially call centre jobs. So, here's my story: Bell Sympatico DSL users have been experiencing major service disruptions in the Toronto ...

B2C = Business to Community?

I have just finished reading the free eBook manifesto - Trust Economies: Investigating the New ROI of the Web by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. Excellent piece! I'm starting to think that B2C has now changed its meaning to "Business to Community". What's your opinion?

PodCamp Toronto Snippets

Great event this week-end - PodCamp Toronto 2. Here are couple of snippets from day one: * Same things don't work over time - Chris Brogan * Social media is a cultural revolution, not a commercial revolution - Collin Douma * The "trust economy" emulates the human relationships on the web - Julien ...

Upcoming: PodCamp Toronto 2008

PodCamp Toronto 2008 is just two days away - I'm so excited to attend for the second year in a row. In the mean time, this one - PodCampToronto.com, just slipped through the fingers of a domain name broker, so I'm more than happy to put it back to work for ...

UPS 410 Gone?!

This is a good one... I was trying to get a shipping quote on UPS.com, but it seems like one app server has gone missing - 410 gone that is. And I've got this response several days in a row.

Google Advertising Professional

I'm happy to report that I've already met one of my goals for this year, getting the only Google certification existing out there: the Advertising Professional. Interesting experience, about 120 questions in 90 minutes. Not to mention I had to wake up at 7AM on a Sunday morning because Prometric ...

Rogers and Content Injection

Yet another reason to vote with your wallet and give up Rogers and their throttled Internet service.

Google and Corporate Blogging

Interesting article by Karen Wickre, Mother of the Google Blog.

Shift Happens …Now!

I have too keep this numbers handy... Awesome! Via Chris Penn.

Introducing the iSPINIT.com Premium Podcast!

My Premium podcast feed is the very latest innovation brought to you by iSPINIT! Available as a personal RSS feed, it brings flexibility and convenience to a whole new level. Once your PayPal payment is approved, simply subscribe to your feed in iTunes and automatically receive all Premium podcasts that you ...

Using Amazon S3 for Podcasting

If you are looking for a podcast hosting service, this might interest you... And you might be familiar with Libsyn.com just as well. BTW: if you are using it, you might pay more than you need to... I have been evaluating and using Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for couple ...

New on Bay Street

I don't normally talk about my day job on the blog, but I'm extremely proud about running this web project and the way it came to life: Renaissance Investments "invest well. live better." Merging web sites without affecting the client experience is not always easy, but it is nice to ...

Mac Users More Active on the Web

A new Forrester report divides the U.S. online population into six groups according to their social participation on the Web: Creators - those who blog, publish web sites, upload videos, or participate in other content creation activities - 21 percent own Macs, while only 12 percent own Dell computers; Spectators - they ...

Podcasters Across Borders Reflections

Although I was able to attend the 2007 Podcasters Across Borders for just one day, it was a blast! So many things to learn, so many people to meet! Kudos again to the organizers - Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche! I had the privilege of sharing the "cool table" with Chris ...

What’s Next After Graduating Computer Science?

Having graduated Computer Science a while ago, I totally concur to Eric Lundquist's awesome article in eWeek. There are three Lessons you should know: Lesson 1: "Pay attention to the economics and politics of your profession and figure out a way to gain leverage not just for yourself but also for ...

5 Things I Learned at the Google Financial Services Conference

This week I had the privilege of attending the Google Financial Services Conference here in Toronto and meet cool people like Chantal Rossi, Sabrina Geremia, Paul Botto or Chris O'Neill of Google. There are five themes re-shaping Marketing today: Integration: consumers are hard to find and harder to influence! Innovation: today's buzz word ...

Top 5 Causes of Project Failure

Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) published a study on why projects fail. Guess what? Silence is golden except when it comes to Project Management. Here is the top 5 causes of failure in a project: 27.8% Poor Communications 17.9% Insufficient Resource Planning 13.2% Unrealistic Schedule 9.8% Poor Project Requirements 6.7% Lack of Stackeholder Buy-in/Support Interesting! Via ...

End of an Era

While Apple is getting ready to launch iTunes Plus – DRM-free music - the landmark Sam the Record Man store on Toronto's Yonge Street is shutting its doors on June 30. There is no doubt "digital" is the way to go… It is somehow interesting to observe the steps. "We are ...

iSPINIT.com Podcast is Now Live featuring Back to Back Podsafe Music

Ella and I just launched iSPINIT.com, our podcast! We love music! Indie and Podsafe music, for that matter. Music has and always will be part of our life, so, we created iSPINIT, for our indulgence and yours! iSPINIT is a channeled music podcast that comes in several different flavours: (iSPINIT) Pop, ...

One Year of Blogging!

Hey - my blog is one year old! I really enjoy this social media experience. What's next though? I have moved my blog under a new domain - mircea.net, trying to add a more personal note to it. More exciting though, I'm ready to move to the next stage - music ...

Akamaizing Your Podcast Delivery Network?

I'm doing some research on podcast hosting solutions and I came across this whitepaper from Akamai. Localizing the content using their delivery network has always fascinated me. I was actually wondering when would Akamai join the podcasting trend and offer hosting/delivery solutions for large media files. Apparently the service ...

Wireless Freedom is Here. Part 2.

This is supposed to be a positive "wireless" post and I don't think the message has been advertised well enough yet: Cogeco, yes - the cable Internet provider - has started to offer free wireless access to its existing customers! To my knowledge, it is the first "wired" provider to ...

Wireless Freedom is Here. Well, Sort of…

Kudos to marketing folks over at Telus Mobility! They totally get the search engine marketing. Have a look at the screen captures below: They were taken right on March 14, the day wireless number portability (WNP) became effective in Canada. In other words, you could take you phone number and move ...

From Paradise …with Love

Today I´ve experienced one of the most beautiful places I have visited in my whole life: Saona Island, Dominican Republic - a place with the whitest sand! Life has a different dimenssion here...

Apple’s Multi-touch Technology Across the Board?

I totally believe that UBS Investment Research is right! Touch screen technology has been around for a while, tablet PCs are becoming more and more popular, self check-out terminals are spawning, Axiotron's ModBook is using a stylus. Remember, Steve Jobs doesn't like the stylus, so multi-touch technology can be just ...

Google to Anonymize Log Files

I never thought that even Google's web servers generate log files that can be used in conjunction with their web analytics. Well, they are ready to anonymize some of the collected data such as IP addresses and cookies, after a period of ...18-24 months. Nice move, Google!

PodCamp Toronto 2007

Just came back from PodCamp Toronto 2007, a two-day "camp" held in Toronto. Wanted to say a big thanks to the organizers for putting together such a big event: Leesa Barnes, Jay Moonah, Brent Morris, Julien Smith and of course Mitch Joel! I'll probably need couple of days to go ...

Gmail for Your Domain on Blackberry

Gmail for your domain is now available for Blackberry. Point your wireless browser to m.google.com/a to download the latest version on your device. Great for small business or if you want to take control of email for your own domain name! The whole Google Apps package costs $50 per account ...

PodCamp Toronto - February 24 & 25, 2007

Looking forward to this event! Register for PodCamp Toronto. See y'all there!

Steve Jobs doesn’t like DRM either

Interesting "Thoughts on Music" by Steve Jobs: Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected ...