Archive for August, 2009

Today the entire online world is supposed to celebrate the blog day – the holiday that is celebrated on August 31 every year. For the first time the day was celebrated in 2005 and it falls on the last day of summer because binary inscription of the word “blog” is exactly 3108 (at least according [...]

I don’t have exact figures right now but as far as I remember after reading it somewhere, Russia is one of the countries influenced by the world recession the most. In fact, I don’t think I know anyone among my friends or family who was not damaged in any way. Even those of Russian citizens [...]

The vast majority of web startups I have witnessed launch and grow over the years blogging here at Profy have huge plans for the future and road maps that seem to be so lengthy that no one ever knows if their plans for the future can ever be fully accomplished – including the startups themselves. [...]

If you are a web publisher or a blogger who uses ads for monetization, I am quite certain that you have heard some complaint at least once about your ads. Most frequently our visitors complain about the mere existence of such ads because the majority of web surfers simply hate them. But sometimes we also [...]

I’ve already mentioned here a few times the attention that Russian authorities pay to open-source software. In fact, here reliance on commercial software in all the fields of life is considered something of a national vulnerability where one non-local company can easily influence the future of the entire nation where everyone – from a school [...]

When it comes to technology products, there are often situations when people are very upset with the products they use or try to use. Reasons can vary from lack of experience or knowledge to overall lack of usability of the product. But no matter whose fault it actually is, users rarely want to admit that [...]

Guest post by Elliot Cohen, CEO of TripCart.com It is quite obvious that in the online world Google has become a true religion with so many worshippers that it is amazing. I am thinking of this from the side of the web business who wants to find favor in the eyes of God (the search [...]

Of course you will only get the chance of losing that kind of revenue if you actually make anything close to that. As for me, no redesign will help me lose that much money because Profy is far from there in terms of the overall revenue so I will hardly get a chance of losing [...]

I will not ask if you have Twitter account because my experience shows that there is hardly any person in the Profy audience who still manages to avoid the growing popularity of the microblogging tool. Also I will not ask how frequently you tweet because this question seems to be too personal to me. In [...]