Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

If you have a blog that has at least a few dozens of subscribers, I am quite certain you have received various emails inviting you to install a widget or a button that is promised to improve just about everything on your blog and make people stay longer and read more posts at a time. [...]

Forbes is obviously a well-known international brand for all the business-related news, analytics, interviews, and just about everything a business person may need to stay up to date with the market. Unfortunately this very professionals-oriented brand has just demonstrated a huge lack of professionalism in one particular local market – in this case in Russia. [...]

Now it is not surprising that the entire blogosphere is abuzz over Microsoft’s Bing deal with Twitter and Facebook about adding real-time search in public Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates. Of course real-time search is supposed to be a hit these days and everyone somehow tends to think this is exactly what is supposed [...]

Those endless Digg killers from a few years ago made me yawn instantly because no matter how many niche clones of Digg web developers from around the world bothered to launch, the huge crowd was securely settled on Digg and had no visible desire to move elsewhere – even if those other places were as [...]

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 [...]

So yesterday we heard the big news about Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. We have quickly remembered certain hints that should have demonstrated us there was the possibility long ago but the deal was obviously a surprise for the tech crowd and the blogosphere and everyone has been discussing the deal from every possible perspective but of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a Russian living in Russia and doing business internationally, I am known for my strong belief in localization for internet products – both for startups and established web companies. Yet sometimes one realizes that even the best efforts can result in absolutely nothing because you can never predict everything about a country where you [...]