Lucian Bitai’s summary of the year
Posted on December 23, 2009 by Marek
It looks that it last summary of the year before the Christmas and another one will appear after this time. OK, let’s Lucian Bitai to speak.You know what, 6 questions first:
1. What was 2009 for your company or your department?
2. What will the year 2010 for your company or your department?
3. What was the most important event in the Internet industry in 2009 in your opinion?
4. What you think the Internet will be the end of 2010?
5. What is – in your opinion – the most important website of 2009?
6. Who and why is the Man of the Year 2009 of the Internet industry in your opinion?
And of course six comprehensive answers:
1. 2009 was a very surprising year that started with lots of less than optimistic outlooks induced by the global economic crysis, but in the end turned out very well thanks to the great team here. Interestingly enough, chip.de is one of the success stories that emerged from this crysis, as the strategies put in place to limit the damage of the crysis led in the end to all time record results, that topped even the “normal” years! The appropriate motto would be “Why waste a good crysis?”
2. 2010 will mean for my department – Download.chip.eu and Download.chip.asia – a new phase of development. New strategies to cope with the various conditions in so many countries (12 so far), new approaches and a closer cooperation with our international partners. Also, it is the year for “Version 2.0″ of our portal, with new features that we hope will become success stories. It is also a very challenging year for me personally, as I will be coordinating a new international sales and cooperations structure, besides our Country Managers team.
3. The global crysis. A crysis is always a time of changes and I think that this one – although unfortunately very damaging for our Print colleagues – is only paving the way for online’s predominance in the future.
4. Not very different I presume from what it is now. Although hopefully things will have recovered enough after the crysis so that the word “survival” should be less used in the online world. New “wonderkids” like Facebook or Twitter might emerge (who could ever predict what the “next big thing” in Online will be?). I agree with Oliver that it will be bigger, better and faster and I would also add more democratic and more personal. Social networks will tend to be a more and more important source of information, accesible even for people who do not have a free media – see what happened earlier this year with Twitter and the events in Iran. If you ask me what Online will be in 10 years from now, that is a completely different story. Internet access might just become essential for life sustainability, just like air and food – and this means that working in the Online industry might just be a very, very good idea 
5. The same as in most of the previous years – Google. Too important, if you ask me, even though it is the “do no evil” company we are talking about. Let’s not forget what happens when too much power gets into very few hands.
6. I do not think there is a specific Man of the Year in the online world. Just as in every year, the Man of the Year is every Internet user who is shaping the way we communicate online and is defining what Online really is. (There would be no Google, Facebook or Twitter as we know them, without their users.) As I said above, this medium is too democratic, widespread and personal in the same time to allow the existence of a “Man of the Year”. Unless somebody reinvents it completely and makes it available to 100% of the world’s population – in which case this person would definitely be worthy of TIME magazine’s Man of the Century title.
Lucian Bitai is editor of Download.Chip.eu and Download CHIP.asia at Chip Xonio Online GmbH in Munich. In the past he was Country Manager for Chip.Download.eu in Romania. We workd together on this project from the very beggining. After hours Lucian is a German Authobans fanatic supporter (me too to be honest) and has a great memory and I am convincing myself about this every time I try to recall the name of one of great Munich restaurant Beside he is great manager always on time with his topics and I envy him a little bit of that.
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