Black On Stuff

Last weekend I attended the 7th annual european conference for the independent software vendors. The conference was held in Köln (Cologne) Germany, in the Marriot Hotel. Each year there is another city where the conference takes place, like Strasbourg (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Cambridge (UK). Next year (2008) it will be done in Berlin [...]

Last weekend I’ve been to Moscow for the Autumn session of Isdef conference. It was my 4th time in Moscow for ISDEF, representing Avangate. We have sponsored this event, as we did it for the last two years. A three-day event with meetings, parties and networking.
The organizers continued to setup the conference outside Moscow, like [...]

“eCommerce times” writes an article about Google’s entry into the online payment market, while making a comparison with Paypal and adding some facts about Google Checkout.
The interesting thing is that our romanian branch is quoted in this article:
E-payment services are not new. ePayment Solutions, GECAD ePayment, Intellipay and Neteller carved out viable e-payment businesses. However, [...]

This year conference is not only one day as the ones last years. It’s for almost three days, from Friday evening to Sunday noon. It’s the third time we’re sponsoring the conference. Friday was just a networking party, a so called “barbeque party” although there was no barbeque but normal catering, but inside a big [...]

US goes further in e-commerce development by starting interesting projects targeting rural areas. Just found the National E-commerce Extension Initiative, which looks quite impresive beginning from the fact that it exists.
I quote from this project background:
This initiative, launched in 2003, is addressing various factors that will dictate the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce innovations [...]

The Avangate sister website www.epayment.ro has a new look since yesterday. The old layout was unchanged since spring 2005. With the new layout comes a new website structure, suitable for the current content. The information can now be more easily found even from the start page. There were pages that were quite hidden in the [...]

I just read an article published by Avangate, How to Build the Semantic Web with Dublin Core and then went out to search the web about Dublin Core.
I consider myself to have web development skills, but I never used this standard so far. And none of my friends too. Then, is it really a success [...]