Archive for July, 2009

When it comes to web startups, it often happens that after the first buzz in the blogosphere is over after about a week from the launch day, people forget about the startups entirely and never visit again - unless bombarded by numerous newsletters and reminders from the team. The main reason for this problem is [...]

I am sometimes asked by my friends about how the situation with the famous Apple iPhone is in Russia - how popular it is, how many phones have been sold, etc. Unfortunately I have never had any really good things to share with them as while some people here want to have an iPhone (and [...]

Ok, I think I could not avoid the buzz around Yahoo partnership with Microsoft that is finally officially announced - after all, it would be strange to ignore the event when it is the only thing everyone speaks about today, even the small TV stations here in Russia in their news sections.
But to tell you [...]

Have you ever thought about how dependent you personally are on all the software vendors whose products you use? We normally don’t pay much attention to such concerns, but just imagine that one day Microsoft goes out of business for whatever reason it may be and many of your personal files will need to be [...]

As Twitter is growing more and more popular as time passes and new people arrive to the microblogging platform looking for a new expression tool and some of them learning to use Twitter for self-promotion or brand promotion as well, it is no wonder that there are other people that create their numerous applications using [...]

Surprise, Hulu owners have finally realized content is not really destined to be free and there could be people online willing to pay for quality and convenience. So they suggested that at some point in the future Hulu could turn into a paid service to add to the current ad-supported only model.
Disney’s Chief Executive Bob [...]

Today I have seen a very interesting report published by a participant of a meeting of the major providers of communication services in Russia where the challenges posed by VoIP services were discussed. After reading the report, it now seems to me that telephony operators in Russia are in a state that can already be [...]

At some point in time a thing like an “online meeting” sounded like something beyond understanding for many humans who could not understand how it could be possible to be separated by thousands of miles yet chat in video chats and talk just like they would on the phone - but all via internet protocol [...]

I sometimes can’t help but wonder how carelessly some of the largest companies in the online world tend to treat their international users, looking like they don’t care about these users at all and like these users don’t generate any advertising or other revenue for them - and don’t deserve attention because of this.
As someone [...]