Archive for July, 2009

Introducing CancelAds – the Road to a Fair Web

Svetlana Gladkova

Today I would like to introduce you to CancelAds, my very own startup that was developed based on my idea by my partner, a German internet entrepreneur Marcus Reimold. As the name suggests, CancelAds is a tool that is intended to help web surfers avoid advertising online – and I think many of you have [...]

Free Services Turn Into Paid Ones. How Fair Is That?

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday I received an interesting email from Plaxo providing me with an “important service alert regarding the Plaxo Toolbar for Outlook. I have used Plaxo toolbar in my Outlook for some time, mainly as a tool to back up my contacts online so I received the email as their user. The email introduced me to [...]

How Wise Is The Crowd (Even If It Is Social Media Crowd)?

Svetlana Gladkova

Earlier this week I published a post about ProProfs Polls, a new service for online polls that features some advantages over the traditional market leaders. When writing the post, I could not avoid asking myself why we already have so many web polling services already and why new ones are still launched to impress their [...]

I Belong to the Nation with the World’s Most Engaged Social Networking Audience. So How Does It Feel?

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday the web measuring company comScore decided to publish the results of their study of the social networking field in Russia. Their research shows that Russia has the most engaged social networking audience in the world and I could not resist the temptation to share some thoughts as someone who lives and blogs on the [...]

ProProfs Polls Launched as a Powerful Online Polling Tool

Svetlana Gladkova

Come to think of it, it is truly fascinating how quickly one can get a respond from a huge community online – no matter what the question is. So it is no wonder that there are so many tools out there that make it possible to arrange polls around the web and embed them as [...]