Vladimir's Blog

Meaningful Gamification

Jan 22nd, 2012

Gamification has been one of the hot Internet trends lately. If you are not familiar with the term - Gamification is a process of taking game mechanics and bringing it to businesses that are otherwise boring. There is a lot of talk about Gamification and it seems that every new service nowadays has some form of it implemented. This Ted Talk suggests that 50% of all innovation and 70% of top global 2000 apps will be gamified by 2015.The guy is all excited about it, but I cringe in horror. Why?

Debate

40 million minutes

Jan 18th, 2012

This is, more or less, how much every one of us is expected to live. More than a few times I can remember minutes lasting like an eternity. For example when holding my breath. Or when I was watching my daughter being born. So looking at the number from that perspective, it really seems a lot, with plenty of spare time to be bored even. Yet when I remember that I lived almost 19 million of those minutes already, it does not seem that much.

Leisure

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Things are good. Actually, great.

Jan 17th, 2012

In case you are wondering why it took one month for this blog post, it's because things were doing really good. Great, actually. Two days ago I became a dad to a beautiful baby girl, Petra. As my friend says, I am no longer the son, now I am the father. I have witnessed the birth and it's the kind of experience I would recommend to all future dads. We started preparing for this about a month ago, buying all the things for the baby's room.

Leisure

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What should we write about next – WordPress plugin

Dec 16th, 2011

After a long time here is another plugin from our brewery. This one is really handy. "What should we write about next" allows your users to quickly leave feedback at the end of your posts. The idea behind this plugin is very simple - allow your visitors to leave a quick feedback about what would they want to read next on your site.This improves interaction, gives you topic ideas and makes your visitors feel useful. It's a win-win plugin.

WordPress

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We have liftoff! ManageWP pre-order launched!

Dec 6th, 2011

I am happy to announce the launch of ManageWP pre-order. Go ahead and secure your 30% discount during the pre-order by signing up now. In the back It was almost 30 hours of non-stop work to get the things done in time for the launch date (oh, that sweet start-up launch crunch time). And it also took 18 months and a crew of more or less 10 people around the whole world, to offer this service I am so proud of at this moment.

Startups

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