Archive for August, 2008

It is invariably funny to watch people’s reaction when I mention that in addition to having a Russian name I actually happen to work from Russia. People seem to actually want to ask if we actually have any broadband connection here. I believe this is the same for many people outside of the US working [...]

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word – “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same [...]

ExpatFinder is a new search engine for all the information expatriates around the globe may be interested in finding. The site is launched today by the Singapore-based family startup Interexpat. The freshly launched ExpatFinder is intended both for expatriates and those that are only planning to leave their motherland for business or personal reasons. Here [...]

Today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle creators of one of the most popular social bookmarking services Ma.gnolia (but definitely far behind Delicious) have announced that they have decided to make the code behind the service open-source and rely on the developers community for further updates and growth of Ma.gnolia. What’s more, being open-sources for [...]

Firefox team has announced the winners in the Extend Firefox 3 contest for Firefox extensions and add-ons. Let’s take a look at the winners and see what the experts recruited think are the tools we are supposed to benefit the most of using with our dearest Firefox browsers. Over 100 various extensions have been submitted [...]

Today Twitter blog discusses the new measures the team is taking to fight spam on Twitter. Many of us have noticed that spam on Twitter is growing into a more and more acute problem. We have also recently seen cases of very malicious ways to use Twitter when you can actually have your PC infected [...]

Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Boulder. It is already possible to try out the Facebook application for WhozAround! (in alpha currently, beta promised to arrive soon) to see what this nice little tool is about. And since Susan has shared the [...]

It seems that recently the problem with embargoes and breaking them has grown acute again. I for one have seen at least 3 embargoes broken this week only and I can imagine there are others where I am simply unaware of the embargo time. One of the latest examples made me particularly angry when I [...]

I can’t help but envy people who are lucky enough to get some new unannounced features from Google when browsing this or that service from the internet giant. Today the lucky one is Harry McCracken from Technologizer who has been served a totally new Google News and blogged about it to describe what we probably [...]