Archive for January, 2009

Lately I’ve been feeling pretty depressed every time I had to drive around the city here in Novosibirsk for one simple reason: watching totally empty billboards everywhere constantly reminds me of recession wherever I go. No, I don’t want to say there are no outdoors ads here – it’s a pretty large city with almost [...]

There is no doubt that the recession we are living in now will change a lot of things for a lot of people. And with thousands upon thousands of people around the world losing their jobs there is a new issue – an issue of the overall growth of crime in the world. We have [...]

Of course the web is a great invention as it empowers us to do so many great things. But unfortunately same as any tool it can be used both for good and for bad things and it looks like we have a new horrible trend in the online world – and the recently invented name [...]

There is a very interesting article in the Washington Post today that basically sets Silicon Valley against Detroit, hi-tech against automobile industry, and poses a question of which industry actually deserves to be supported by the government during the current recession. The article quotes executives from HP, the largest hi-tech company in the world with [...]

There are always two sides to any conflict and any business process as well so the major reason for any misunderstanding is that people simply see one side of the process and fail to understand what the other thinks. But trying to understand what the other side has in mind could be just the right [...]

So we should be proud of ourselves as everyone reading this online (and you hardly have other options to read it, to tell you the truth) should be a little proud about being a part of something truly massive and large-scale as the internet measurement firm comScore reports that the internet audience has reached 1 [...]

When you mention the word “syndication” to the average person walking down the street, they immediately associate it with TV and think “Seinfeld” or “Friends”. But to a savvy web entrepreneur, it can be the life-line between failure and success. They know that syndication on the web can be much easier (via scalability) and much [...]

Now that we are deep into the recession it is quite understandable that we don’t see many startups launched, especially those that require huge investment and long time to bring in enough users to begin earning something off the service eventually. But of course there are still web enthusiasts who will always develop some nice [...]

There’s a great commotion today among users of the ICQ instant messaging protocol. While ICQ is certainly far from the market leaders in the US, it is still the most popular IM protocol in Russia and CIS countries with millions of people here using it for personal and business communications – hence everything that concerns [...]