Google you nerd-ed it again! I don’t know why we let you be the biggest brand in the world

Maths

 

Guess what Google’s bid was for some important patents that could’ve helped Android in all those lawsuits?

 

PI (x) bn

 

Yup, it’s easy as PI for those nerdy guys. Well of course multiply that by billion. Story has it that they’ve also bid distances between planets and such. I wonder if they were over-confident about this bid, or just too bored and decided to geek out for fun.


Google’s $3.14159bn bid for a raft of 6,000 patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks really was a mathematical joke.

 

It’s not the first time they’ve done mathematical jokes.

 

They did this as a joke, but the bid was serious. And so are the consequences. Read more on the Guardian:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/02/google-pi-auction-bid

Google Re-Checked PR and Cif2 Websites and Blogs got it BIG

cif2.ro – PR3

cif2.net – PR3

 

florin-muresan.cif2.net – PR2

calinvingan.cif2.net – PR2

redtweets.cif2.net – PR2

expressionblog.net – PR2

helpdaily.cif2.net – PR2

magazine.cif2.net – PR2

cifnetblog.wordpress.com – PR2

 

industry-giant.net – PR1

florinmuresan.com – PR1

theheroesscribe.com – PR1

scriptanunturi.com – PR1

themarketinghealth.com – PR1

The Business Cards Theory for pumping B2B Marketing on Facebook

giveaway

 

Business cards are something most people want to have made for themselves and their companies. Some people even tend to become Business Card sluts, meaning that they immediately give business cards to everybody they meet. They give it to them without thinking (pun alert).

 

Intriguingly enough, doing so actually gets them work. I’m guessing this would be the most ethical form of spam. Because you see, it’s rather ridiculous not to accept a business card. The question is not “Why would I?”, it’s really just “Why wouldn’t I?”. You don’t want to offend anyone by not accepting their business card.


SO, in my experience, business cards are things that work best (meaning, work only in) B2B relationships. I’m saying this because when you get a card from somebody who isn’t of use for your company, you just tend to through that card in some pocket and after a few years, when it’s all washed up inside an old coat, you try to figure out the company name and you realize: “It’s gone. That company’s gone. Oh, well. More garbage”.


This last thing of course, doesn’t apply for you if you have a company and the card you receive can get you a new customer, agency, whatever you may be looking for at the time or just realize that “hey! I’ve been needing that. So glad I got this. Lets put this in my wallet, along with my ID, so I don’t lose it.” That, my friends, is a lucky business card, because it’s found itself a lucky posesor, who will use it soon enough.


Get Your Business Cards On Facebook

If you haven’t done this yet, do it right away! I have tried ETHICAL facebook marketing for so long, and by ethical I mean following the exact rules settled by Facebook on how people should use the platform, but it stinks! Most of the reasons why it stinks ever since the 30th of March 2011, are written here.


Now, Facebook will tell you: Don’t create a profile for a Company. But what you should actually do if you care about yourself and your company is DO IT. Yup, go ahead and create a Facebook Profile for your company. You may have to come up with a bit of a strange name for the profile, since they don’t allow numbers, words like “pizza”, “restaurant”, etc anymore.


After you create the profile, bear in mind the following tips. They will help you get that awesome Social Media Business Card that will generate revenue or value to your company.


1. Look Smart.

Make your profile picture look right. Hire Professional Help if you must. It’s important that this is done right. Because this Profile for your Company will be your Business Card on Facebook.


And wait for it… (to be continued soon)



Blogging about consistency makes me wanna be WAY more consistent. And I should.

consistent

 

I currently find myself blogging about “How to Be Consistent?” on a customer’s blog @work and I was thinking: dude, these tips are awesome. I have to really start living by this and finally become consistent. I mean, all the projects that I did manage to work at until the end have been succesful.

 

No matter what they were: educational software, computer games, historical documentaries, literature projects, marketing stuff, etc.

 

This is my 135th article for my Cif2 blog. I started it on the 29th of July last year and it’s still on-going. Cool, I’ll have to keep this one up for years to come 😀

Keeping up with my Online Life – Glad I have a Cif2


If you’re working for customers online AND for your own startup and are very active, do research, etc. you will stop at one point and say: “What the F shell is going on?”

 

STOP. Yes, you will.

 

And will not understand anything for a while. Well if this happens, it’s clear:

 

1) You don’t have a Cif2

 

2) Maybe you have one, but just don’t use it right.

 

I’ve personally made a MyShack cif2, where I keep up with all the stuff I read, my Tea recipes (which are awesome, btw) and lately with my Web Places. I have accounts and stuff in so many parts all over the web, that it’s killing me because I never know what I have where. And I also can’t remember all those places.

 

So right now I’m storing them on My Shack. And it gives me peace of mind.

 

http://www.myshack.cif2.net

 

Do you have a My Shack ?

Let’s get Techy

 

Ok, so after attending How To Web Cluj and listening to all those presentations about mobiles and mobile apps, I’ve decided: Let’s have more MOBILE-ity in cif2.net.

 

So this morning along with Calin Vingan we worked on making cif2.net blogs to work awesome on mobile platforms. And it does. It loads fast, it doesn’t show the cif2.net bar and it doesn’t display the right bar.

 

Seriously, scan my QR Code. You’ll love it.