‘Tis the season for Privacy

Holiday decorations

Privacy is important! Thanksgiving and the opening of the season of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and end-of-the-year holidays in almost any religion and region are near. It’s worth spending some bytes and processor cycles to encourage you to invest your money, vouchers, bonuses, and good thoughts in Privacy-related products.  The surveillance capitalist-supported industry … Read more

Voice navigation – bringing your app to the next level?

This morning I was surprised by Google Drive. They offered me to use voice for some basic commands, instead of selecting them or using a shortcut (in my case). A few months ago I created an experiment by combining the shiny SoHo Interface with a few good working opensource javascript implementations for voice and gesture … Read more

Why is Bulgaria Web Summit 2015 so different from any other event?

When I talk to sponsors and even to friends about the Summit, they always ask me what makes our event different. So here’s the secret: We started this event 11 years ago (under a different name) as an effort to create something amazing and affordable for IT guys in Bulgaria. At the same time we … Read more

Top 3 Useless Applications on Product Hunt – Batch One

I used to write more about the useful apps on Product Hunt or in my universe, but after talking to a couple of investors about the tendencies in the “modern” startup world, we all agreed that the percentage of useless apps is growing.

Another reason is that everybody is writing about and sharing all kinds of useful apps and I wanted to do something different. So behold, I give you this week’s useless app by Bogo index <- That’s copyrighted

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Three #Bulgarian tech #startups that are so amazing that you should try them still today

You don’t know where Bulgaria is? It doesn’t matter, because we live in a world where borders are not so important, especially in the startup world.

Equafy

Imagine you have a website and you want to test it in different browsers. What can you do? You can ask your QA teams to take this task or to use a SAAS like this one. Just add your testing plan into the system, choose your browsers and hit “execute” and in 10 minutes you will have it all done.

A screenshot

If you don’t have an idea what a “test plan is”, you can download a special addon to your Firefox browser.

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10 things every startuper must know about e-mail marketing and will not find anywhere else.

This mini-book has been staying for at least 2 months in my backlog waiting to be pushed online. It’s time has finally come. I know there are millions of mini-books like that, but this one is different, because it shows things that I’ve learned from my experience working in startups and with communities from 20 to 1.4M e-mail holders.

Let’s get started!

 Email marketing is not dead

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