Archive for March, 2009

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

Mayor of a small town in Ukraine has forbidden his subordinates from spending time on one of the most popular social networks in the Russian-speaking segment of the internet, Odnoklassniki.ru. The mayor claimed that he had noticed facts of his subordinates spending time on the social network and exchanging private messages with their friends and [...]

I have just completed quite a lengthy presentation for a local event next week and have realized that even though the vast majority of the text I wrote for it was taken from the top of my head because my head already accumulates more information on the subject any single presentation could accommodate, I still [...]

We have talked already about how difficult the business is for spammers with such a terrible rate of return that they need to send out 12.5 million of spam emails to get just one purchase. But it now looks like spammers will soon be in an even worse condition as cybercrime is hit by the [...]

Yesterday the European internet conference Plugg saw new winners announced at its Start-ups Rally, a pitching competition for European startups. So I wanted to give some words to both of them – the one chosen by the jury and the one voted for by the audience – especially since it is interesting that the two [...]

We all know the famous trends of web 2.0 like user-generated content or content syndication and we have grown to accept the internet as it is – along with all the strengths and weaknesses of the system. And of course as any medium internet can have both good and bad sides – and quite logically [...]

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you totally need to contact an administrator of this or that website you happen to be on for some reason and could not find any contact information like a contact form or email address you could use to do just that? I personally can think of [...]

Usually when Google does something – whatever it is – it inevitably attracts tons of attention from public and media. But the problem is that we have not seen actually groundbreaking announcements from the internet giant recently as they usually come up with things like new features added to Gmail Labs. Yet it looks like [...]

Do you remember all the recent buzz surrounding Amazon launching the second version of Kindle, its reading device? Of course when some new device is launched to the market accompanied with buzz like this, it will inevitably get attention from potential consumers and even those of us who don’t plan any expenses on new gadgets [...]