Web company in the heart of Europe: Prague.

Java Weekly Bytes: New edition is out. News about Java, Scala, Ceylon, Gosu, Grails and Clojure.

Bogo — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:21:37 +0000

Java Weekly Bytes: New edition is out.

Fresh news about

Java
Scala
Ceylon
Gosu
Grails
and Clojure.

You can read it from here: http://www.scoop.it/t/java-weekly-bytes

5 days FOSDEM in Prague this October.

Bogo — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:55:56 +0000

What is FOSDEM? It’s a name of a conference held in Brussels, but it also stand for “Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting”.

This autumn in Prague we will have something like this – A conference of OpenSUSE Project, SUSE Labs, Gentoo and Linux Days at the same time: October 22-23 and right after that 4 days of PostgreSQL Conference

A whole of F(L)OSS activities, hacking parties and talks. Save the dates

Wrong marketing approach from Comodo and ActiveState.

Bogo — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:25:33 +0000

I have downloaded a free version of Comodo IDE, called Comodo Edit. It’s fucking good IDE for HTML5, PHP, JS and [put your own language here].

So far so good. I gave my email address to them, because I like the product and the team. After 12 seconds I receive this “help material”.

They don’t want to provide me help how to get started, but to sell me the pro-edition:

I understand that approach, but please first give me what I need – links and materials to help me to understand “Comodo EDIT” better and 1 month after that send me an offer for the better IDE.

What’s new in the Java and the JVM World last week?

Bogo — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:49:08 +0000

The new issue of JavaWeeklyBytes is online. What’s in it?

Read the entire issue here: JavaWeeklyBytes

Got a Kindle – subscribe to our updates and get them directly to your device. More info on our website – http://javaweeklybytes.com

May 4th: the Day against DRM

Bogo — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:54:53 +0000

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inbound.org block my account because of my educational campaign.

Bogo — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:44:17 +0000

I am really happy that there are some websites that really understands how the web works and blocks everything that is “dangerous” for the monkeys.

inbound.org blocks my account because of this educational campaign. (Click on the button, don’t worry)

Bravo!

What do you think?

“Make me run”. A Twitter campaign

Bogo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:21:55 +0000

Hello,

My name is Bogomil “Bogo” Shopov.

I just started my own business in the heart of Europe – Prague. I love social media, communities, web technologies and the open web.

I have an idea how to help me to promote my small company and to make something good for yourself.

It’s easy:

For every re-tweet I receive on a certain tweet:

I will run 1 meter during Prague GrandPrix. (I never ran more than 500 meters in my life. It’s a huge challenge.)
I will put your twitter username on a t-shirt and I will run with it. (I may use more than one)
I will donate $0.05 to one of the these foundations*:

How to participate?

To be a valid participant to this fun action and to make my fat ass run 10 000 meters, please take just 2 actions:

Retweet this message. (<- click here)
and add as comment here at this blog your twitter username.

That’s it!

*If I get more that 5000 participants, all of you will be able to choose the foundation/charity by voting.

Using adf.ly as a lead generation source

Bogo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:19:03 +0000

Couple of people warned me about the quality of traffic that comes from adf.ly, but I’ve decided to give it a try.

JWB Campaign

Landing page

I have created a very simple landing page.

Target audience

As you can see it’s not a “we will offer you free ipad if you click here” campaign. I was looking for people who are interested in IT and in JAVA programming language in particular. It’s not an easy audience.

Campaign

I have bought VERY TARGETED traffic from countries I need and I’ve added some junk traffic as well:

The result was: 107 leads for 40$ = 0.38 USD per lead.

I had a great meeting with a very cool Java guy last friday. Learn a lot from @steveonjava

Bogo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:21:10 +0000

I had a great meeting with a very cool Java guy last friday. Learn a lot from @steveonjava about community, food, beer and technologies.

Pentagram – Lions in a Cage

Bogo — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:28:20 +0000

Community Engagement: Add Twitter news at your Facebook profile.

Bogo — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:18:11 +0000

if you want to increase your community engagement you can connect you Twitter and Facebook profile by providing special application to show latest news from your Twitter profile.

I know there is a way to publish tweets directly in your timeline, but this is not available for company pages and it’s boring to read 50 tweets a day via Facebook timeline, so why don’t you help your fans to get what they need.

Add the application to your page’s menu:

show the info like this

Oh yes, it’s good idea to check if the current user likes your page or not and to show a different header like this:

How to disable new ugly Facebok Timeline profile?

Bogo — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:01:33 +0000

If you want to disable your Facebook Timeline forever – here is a nice way to do it.

Yes Forever!