Forget Milk

Today saw the launch of Captivating Romania.

CaptivatingRomania.com is the first place you should have in mind when you’re thinking of travelling to Romania, or simply when you need some inspiration for things to do while you’re there. CaptivatingRomania inspires, captivates, informs. Find out from your friends where they’ve been and what places they recommend. Share your experiences with them.

News quickly spread through the Twittosphere about how its now competing with the likes of Unseen Romania, Turismatic (launching next week) and other online portals out there covering Romania.

I have a big fucking bone to pick here.

We as a country can’t even re-brand (ok, brand) ourselves with a budget in excess of €4m. So how are the likes of these 3 players mentioned above actually competing?

What are they competing for?

Don’t get me wrong here, I am friends with the creators of each of the three projects and I admire their individual efforts in this space and I wish them each much much success. What they are collectively doing is giving Romania a face. A face that €4m and thousands of wasted hours on consultants can’t even achieve.

I had a conversation based around this subject last week last week.

It went along the lines of:

“We should create a collective network of talented people and work on this Romania branding exercise.”

“The Romanian Government is hiring muppet’s who have zero experience in Branding/Re-Branding a single country, and we are working with people (our company advisors) who have successfully re-branded two of the largest nations in the WORLD!”

I beg you all to stop this retarded shit about competition on everything that is launched. Imagine the greater benefits of 3 different views on Romania. That is not competition, that is greatness and innovation from the people behind the projects.

Move on, there is nothing else to see here, unless you want to talk serious € and actually do something about branding this nation.

p.s. don’t be afraid to comment!

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We were kindly invited to attend the MotoGP in Valencia last weekend by the guys over at Team Suzuki

What I can say is that it was a most enjoyable weekend, and opened the door to many many opportunities in the future.

Being there in the Paddock and experiencing more than just the race is something that is hard to describe, I hope the pictures tell a little bit of the story.

Clicking the link above will take you directly to the pictures
 

I was using Twitter Tools, a WP plugin, to post my Twitter stream through this blog as posts. I soon found out it was a pain in the ass for most.

Apologies, I have disabled the plugin.

• up and at em #
• @ramayana_cafe joins twitters, adds me. 9 RON an expresso long? in reply to ramayana_cafe #
• keep on rolling: http://vimeo.com/2024427 #
• @jasoncalacanis when the dog is still sleeping! in reply to JasonCalacanis #
• need a printer who can do a 2 meter banner by tomorrow in Bucharest. Anyone? #
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• treating the car to a clean! It’ll rain next weekend so I am good #
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• @Zoso what does it say? in reply to zoso #
• @Zoso funny I owe money? It refers to me? in reply to zoso #
• how can any journalist write an article without knowing the truth. are they journalists? #
• exporting. and the result: http://is.gd/4mx1 #
• Romania’s top 8 richest people are worth €13.64 Billion #
• those new apple products look really nice! #
• @Kathy_Johnson @dominic_johnson hope all is ok in reply to Kathy_Johnson #
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• back in the saddle. working on @ceevee specs #
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• domain name acquisitions are fun. the process teaches you a lot #
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• done editing photo’s #
• @larshinrichs mac has right-click too! With apple mouse or any normal mouse in reply to LarsHinrichs #
• Vimeo Plus baby yeah! http://vimeo.com/plus #
• if any gives a shit about me driving for 24hrs in a round-trip to Debrecen - some movie of night roads here: http://vimeo.com/1992759 2:45am #
• @zoso same car, no changes this end. we need to make money before we get new ones! in reply to zoso #
• ah crap, a backlog of email. must fix this #
• Monty snoring clip - http://vimeo.com/1994038 #

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• waking up with a big headache. #
• please welcome Monty (Montgomery) to the family: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilkinslee/2945939165/ #
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• twitter elite tells me i am Number 1 in Bucharest - 96.2 - must add ” ,romania” for it to work though #
• @MihaiDragan problems with some detail pages. alignment issues. in reply to MihaiDragan #
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