Archive for May, 2009

Google Further Improves Search, Does The Competition Have Any Chances?

Svetlana Gladkova

We can think everything we want about Google and we can be paranoid all we want about how it collects all the information about every single user it has, but there’s no denying to at least one fact: Google Search is still their best product. True, in the recent years Google has offered us numerous [...]

Always Dissatisfied With Results of Your Work Week? Worktrek Is Here To Help You

Svetlana Gladkova

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where by Friday night you feel that you don’t really deserve a good Friday party or even a movie in a theatre or don’t even have the right to spend the entire weekend having fun and rest after the long and productive week? I mean, have you [...]

Google Wants To Know How It Has Changed Your Life. Now Has It?

Svetlana Gladkova

Honestly, I can’t imagine my life without Google. I use Gmail for all my personal emails and I use that account for Google Talk where I have more contacts than in ICQ even though I’ve been using ICQ for 8 years and GTalk – for less than 3 years now. After many failed attempts to [...]

A Good Product Will Sell Itself: True or False?

Svetlana Gladkova

As a marketing person myself, I have participated in quite a number of animated discussions about how a worthy product is supposed to sell itself and you should not really waste money on stupid things like advertising or brand promotion because if people need the product you have, they will find you and buy your [...]

Secret To Success In Blogging? Begin When You Are A President

Svetlana Gladkova

During my years in blogging I have learned some secrets of blogging same as everyone who commits at least to a certain extent to this fascinating activity. In the vast majority of cases successful bloggers prefer to keep their secrets to themselves (only sharing some small parts that will demonstrate the general direction but will [...]

Russian Authorities Embrace Skype And Video Calls

Svetlana Gladkova

If you happened to think that Russia was kind of left behind in terms of internet development (same as I did myself – I have to admit), you will probably have to think again as today I have bumped into a pretty interesting example of how advanced our Russian authorities can be. The news today [...]

Virtual Life Can Be A Solution To Stay Healthy In Your Real Life

Svetlana Gladkova

Earlier this week I received an email from a web conferencing startup Mikogo – I have reviewed them on Profy and found their approach to enabling us have virtual meetings right on Skype to be quite a fresh one (as I am a big fan of Skype). In the email they suggested that now that [...]