Octavian Mihai

First things first. Happy new year! Here is an unedited list of points that marked me in 2009. If you don’t get the references just google’em.  Twitter exploded with the Iran uprising and later with MJ’s death  MJ’s death was a great stress test for the internet. I wonder what would’ve happened if the news came around [...]

Lately I’ve been working quite a lot with Jonathan on the new Jaime Candy. In august you’ll see the results. Also organizing the new office (1200 Aldred Building). Other than that, rainy summer in Montreal.

The funny reading was because the text on the paper was not English but Romanian with English pronunciation. Very interesting and conflicting reading. You should try it Sorry about the bad sound, just play it louder, but not too loud [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63X0GHU5DM]

Due to popular demand, I’ve decided to publish the Strong like bull video. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljv0agCxEJE] This is a video Ive made as part of a contest when the Montrealer agency Diesel Marketing changed its name to Sid Lee. One of the reasons was to distinguish itself from the Diesel jeans, to open towards a more [...]

Ok, ok, here is a (complete) quote that everybody seems to use nowadays. “Web 2.0 is much more than just pasting a new user interface onto an old application. It’s a way of thinking, a new perspective on the entire business of software— from concept through delivery, from marketing through support.” Web 2.0 principles and [...]

I can’t stop but see red (sic) when I hear ignorants making the apology of communism. To settle this once and for all. Communism is a bankrupt ideology. Communism cannot but end in bankruptcy. As it already did once. Period. People are not equal. And they will never be. WTF!!!! And yes we are better [...]

http://boysproject.net/statistics.html What do you think? Scary, ain’t it? Here is what I think… I forsee a couple avenues: 1. This trend might underline a societal shift with a change of the gender power balance and some sacrified male generations. Utilitarian speaking if at the end of the shift we end up with a better society [...]

One of the arguments I use when discussing about the propagation of new products (like aids drugs, genetic tests, 3d printers, etc) is the what I call the Robin Hood business model (a combination of patent breaking and network effects business model… this is not a really a business model but draws the lines of [...]

The prophet.

Ok i did not really want to talk about it but i have a side comment concerning the fuck up at digg. A couple days ago, last time i checked, the article with the key from doom9 had about 24000 digs. This was in response to the previous removal of user accounts and articles by [...]