Archive for March, 2009

I Wish I Lived In A World Where Spammers Never Lied

Svetlana Gladkova

Spam is usually considered to be totally evil and worth no second look when you check your spam folder to make sure there’s no legitimate email that got there by mistake. But I personally have extracted many useful emails from that very folder so I check it every day and pay at least a second [...]

Jango Offers Musician a Chance To Become Rock Stars With $30 Promotion Budget

Svetlana Gladkova

I just love it when web companies come up with new monetization ideas that don’t contain the word “advertising” at all, are clever and are also intended to be interesting to the target audience – interesting enough for people to actually pay for what they have to offer. Today I think that we have an [...]

FairShare Is Now Public and Available For Even Small Bloggers To Track Stolen Content

Svetlana Gladkova

Some of the loyal Profy readers may remember FairShare, a service by Attributor that we discussed when it was launched in private beta with a few bloggers participating. For those of you who is not aware, FairShare is a service developed and launched by Attributor with support of Creative Commons in order to enable everyone [...]

No More Outsourcing To India And China, US Is The New Destination

Svetlana Gladkova

When you live in Russia everything about IT outsourcing is something you can not ignore as many people around you earn their money off IT services rendered to customers from abroad. And of course it is even more so for people in India and even in China: looking to cut development costs many companies turn [...]