Archive for March, 2009

My inbox gets tons of all types of promotional messages from all kind of startups that want to get some coverage everywhere they can think of. But some messages are very different even though they arrive from startup owners as well - like today’s message I had to extract from my spam folder from Streamzy [...]

I sometimes feel that we use way too many words that don’t really fit the objects and substances they are intended to describe. Like the word “computer” - have you thought about how inappropriate it already is? Really, when was the last time when you actually did some computing on your computer?
Personally I can hardly [...]

Despite of the fact that we keep talking about how Skype is not profitable enough for eBay to keep it instead of trying to sell it, Skype now proves to be growing at impressive rates as a provider of international calls.
According to a report published by TeleGeography, Skype has increased the number of minutes in [...]

I have already written here about the fact that online applications somehow seem to push even more desktop applications into use than we used to have instead of eliminating use of various desktop applications they substitute. While we initially began with talking about moving totally online where we would never need a desktop application again [...]

Lately I’ve been noticing that the vast majority of newly-launched startups looked very much like something we have already seen before - but with great modifications that make the copy much better and usable than the original was. But unfortunately that does not really mean that the clone will ever be able to grab users [...]

A few days ago I made a terrible confession in one of the posts here: I admitted that I have never installed an application on my cell phone and that I don’t even want to as I feel myself online enough spending most of my waking hours in front of my computer screen buried deep [...]

Yesterday the Russian government discussed the amendments to the budget for the next year along with the antirecession program intended to help the country survive the crisis without heavy damages.
Of course there is nothing surprising about this fact as every government in the world is now engaged in some very similar activity. The surprising part [...]

Today CampaignMonitor has published results of their latest initiative - survey of email clients usage. To make it possible they simply tracked all the emails generated by their users and how recipients opened such emails. The results are rather interesting: while I knew that Outlook was supposed to have the largest share, I never expected [...]

In this hyper-connected world that we now live in news and everything related to news gets tons of attention from just about everywhere: we still have not found any perfect way to consume news from dozens and hundreds or even thousands (for some) sources of information even despite of the fact that there are various [...]