Archive for September, 2009

For quite a while I’ve been thinking about China as a sandbox where various procedures and measures of controlling everything that is online are practiced and polished – to see if they work or not at all. For now I think it is quite obvious that the measures don’t really work – no matter how [...]

I honestly could not believe my eyes when I’ve read the headline that mentioned that Vkontakte, the Russian social networking giant is planning an international expansion. I know that many Russian internet tools and services are mere clones of the US products. I know that many of them were initially launched here because the owners [...]

Of course there’s nothing 100% stable and reliable in the online world as so many services tend to experience downtimes that prevent their users from doing what they want or need to. This is particularly true for smaller and newer services, especially those wearing the “beta” tag near their logos. But in this world that’s [...]

We all use the World Wide Web in a different manner depending on our interests but there are some tools that depend on our age, occupation and location. Since today all the schoolchildren and students in Russia go back to school, all the news reports are more or less focused on children. Yesterday a company [...]