tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718528186876389042012-04-30T02:43:37.742+03:00vinkus.comMobile world, social networks, marketing, travel.Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-75693480525842495532011-08-02T13:28:00.002+03:002011-08-02T13:28:53.558+03:00Who is the real google guru? Sergey Brin historyWho is the real Google guru?
The year 2000. Sergey Brin, Googles Co-Founder, On "To Tell The Truth" TV Game Show.
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-48790711286334656472010-11-15T22:25:00.002+02:002010-11-15T22:25:44.121+02:00How to get invite to the new facebook emailFacebook recently announced it's combined email service. You can get the invite using this linkMantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-38537970918407838362010-10-13T21:17:00.000+03:002010-10-13T21:17:18.144+03:0010 things you need to know about Facebook, and UK market1. Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK after Google, accounting for 6.89% of all visits.
2. In terms of internet pages viewed, Facebook is by far the biggest website in the UK. In total, 16.40% of all page views during September went to a Facebook page. Facebook now accounts for 1 in 6 page views in the UK, that’s twice the number of page views received by Google.
3. Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-87669108321391138132010-08-20T09:57:00.002+03:002010-08-20T09:57:41.758+03:00The geosocial universeThe amount by which the social networks are interecting with mobile customers
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-41051855064097760572010-08-17T10:03:00.002+03:002010-08-17T10:03:44.188+03:00Voice search in androidVoice search in android - 25% users in USA, uses voice for search.Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-11858091430491653032010-08-17T09:48:00.000+03:002010-08-17T09:48:43.518+03:00Google Mobile Press Event - Voice Actions and Chrome to PhonePress event announcing Voice Actions for Android and Chrome to Phone.
Starring Hugo Barra, Mike LeBeau, and Dave Burke.
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-75527609287074606232010-06-02T22:45:00.002+03:002010-06-02T22:47:20.324+03:00Official Google Blog: Freeze frame!Google goes after Bing? :)
Official Google Blog: Freeze frame!Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-63249276211367023952010-06-02T22:01:00.006+03:002010-06-02T22:14:44.831+03:00Why people work at certain companies when the money is not the issueStart from this - Pay people enough, only to take the issue of the money from the table. Then go with meaningfull things (start treating people as people:-) and you will see that the money is not the issue.
And the most important things that motivate are:
Autonomy - self direction.
Mastery - we want to be better at stuff.
PURPOSE motive!
Dan Pink:
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-72101260657554241462010-06-01T20:56:00.002+03:002010-06-01T20:59:58.542+03:00Google marketing fail or success?Even Google sometimes fail during their marketing campaign. Always calculate your possible traffic :)
On the recent blog post Google refers to it's customer Google apps website:
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-54285588905492920932010-05-31T23:26:00.001+03:002010-05-31T23:27:21.309+03:00Top 5 Slurs - The world without spacesWhen choosing your domain name, always double check if it contains more than one word. Or you can get the slur.
Experts Exchange – a site where programmers can trade advice – is found at www.expertsexchange.com
La Drape – a British company selling high-end quilted bedspreads – is listed at www.ladrape.co.uk
American Scrap Metal – a scrap metal recycling firm – has its website at Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-33232166254792137062010-05-30T22:27:00.000+03:002010-05-30T22:27:06.993+03:00Lithuania at Eurovision song contest. Why Inculto didn't win?I missed Euro vision song contest show on tv, so I tried to capture the sense from the twitter comments, here they are:
"don't ask me about lithuania in Eurovision 'cuz i'm gonna cry. it's really sad. they had to be in the final!"
"I don't get why Lithuania didn't get in the finale"
"I wish Lithuania had made it through. My Sunday night is incomplete without boys in sequinned hot pants."
"Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-4872423530810052362010-05-20T23:27:00.000+03:002010-05-20T23:27:31.424+03:00Google Android 2.2 new version speed performanceHere is a video:
Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks.
New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-46856326517988554682010-05-20T23:14:00.001+03:002010-05-20T23:17:24.933+03:00Google entertainment hub - Google TVFull web browser, live search, more personalisation. Google announced that it's working with Intel, Sony, and Logitech to develop Google TV as an open platform.
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-27127780203193652972010-05-17T20:34:00.000+03:002010-05-17T20:34:19.515+03:00The piratebay is down, but will be back soonThe Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution. So it;s not the end for the biggest torrent tracker yet...Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-85972261738675840502010-05-16T22:52:00.000+03:002010-05-16T22:52:18.101+03:00How to get a dream job using Google?Great idea, 6 dollars and you get a job ;)
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-65105099243854685862010-05-11T22:02:00.000+03:002010-05-11T22:02:44.213+03:00Google Mobile is now on Twitter tooName: Google Mobile/
Location: Pockets and purses
Nice one :-)
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-3438341138584144402010-05-10T16:57:00.002+03:002010-05-10T16:57:19.605+03:00How not to test your product, or Volvo crashThis is a great fresh example how not to test your product live... Or Volvo crash during presentation:
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-1172512979320782662010-05-07T13:00:00.001+03:002010-05-07T13:04:05.508+03:00How to choose a great name for your productWhen google started with the social network product - it failed. Then one guy from his university dorm, tried it - he succeeded.
Just think about the name impact - "Orkut" vs. "Facebook" and the whole Cognitive fluency. Offcourse it's not 100% matter, but...
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-45150161287714832962010-05-06T22:07:00.000+03:002010-05-06T22:07:55.378+03:00Web 2.0 Expo SF Keynotes and videoHere you can find presentations in video from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010:
Key things:
Rising optimism :)
Promise of mobile
Location awareness
Html5 new capabilities
Work Wants to be Social: 5 Things we have Learnt from SlideShare
Disruptors: eCommerce
A Conversation with Kevin Lynch - As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization (Adobe)
The Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-4049064273259754142010-05-06T21:56:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:56:06.743+03:00Work Wants to be Social: 5 Things we have Learnt from SlideShareRashmi Sinha is cofounder and CEO for SlideShare, the world’s largest professional sharing site. SlideShare is growing rapidly (more than 28 million monthly uniques) letting everyone from marketers, speakers and educators share and connect with others.
Before SlideShare, Rashmi cofounded another startup – MindCanvas – a gamelike survey platform. Rashmi has a PhD from Brown University and has Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-5556666208384692062010-05-06T21:53:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:53:23.250+03:00Disruptors: eCommerceeCommerce is a term you heard bandied around in 1997 to describe a then-hot segment of the web. Today, well over a decade later, you might assume that eCommerce is stable—even boring. Think again. A new crop of start-ups is reexamining what the web can do for commerce, invigorating the sector with smart analyses and compelling business models. In this set of keynotes, three startups each give a Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-67809733005173673462010-05-06T21:50:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:50:14.779+03:00A Conversation with Kevin LynchAs chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™
Here is a Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-13615022132458526922010-05-06T21:47:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:47:39.150+03:00The Facebook EraClara helped kick off the Social CRM movement in 2007 with her Faceconnector application, which integrates Facebook and Salesforce CRM. She is author of the newly released bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff about Facebook and Twitter for business, which has been featured in The New York Times, Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-36441555550079031732010-05-06T21:44:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:44:02.041+03:00You May Already Be A WinnerErin McKean likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO of the new online dictionary Wordnik and the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. Previously, she was Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press.
Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:
Mantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871852818687638904.post-73518006470733149792010-05-06T21:38:00.000+03:002010-05-06T21:38:10.523+03:00Where Web, Mobile, Gaming and Reality ConvergeThe days of multiple gadgets, devices and laptops are numbered. Today’s consumers are looking for technology that works across any platform and can control multiple devices.
The convergence of technology hardware and software is enabling consumers to combine work and play anywhere at any time. No longer tethered to a video game console, a growing number of consumers are playing when and where theMantas Vinkusnoreply@blogger.com0