Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

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 [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the paradoxes in how some companies approach going global and investing into such globalization. Usually every startup and even some established internet companies I talk to about why they don’t translate their applications to other languages quote the costs involved in translation as the main reason for why [...]

Facebook has been the social network of the year with its rapid growth everywhere. And while for Facebook (and for many other ad-supported web services) the US market is what rules the world in terms of where they make money, Europe now looks like it has been the place where Facebook enjoyed totally incredible growth [...]

You may have already read on the Wall Street Journal and in some other sources that Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer is leaving the rapidly-growing social network. Of course it is no wonder that everyone now wants to know how good Facebook is doing in terms of money. And while Facebook is claiming they are doing [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

It is often striking to me to watch the majority of internet companies (both startups and established market leaders) only focusing on the US users for all their business operations. It is more than disappointing to see this approach when you are an international user yourself - and a user who wants to be a [...]

Today comScore has shared results of a new survey with the world, this time about social networking trends in Europe with a particular focus on France. The figures from the survey are rather interesting as the web measurement company discovers that three quarters (74.6%) of all European internet users are exposed to social networks.
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Earlier this week I have already talked here about quite an interesting move from Facebook: offering scheduling gifts to be sent as many as 7 days in advance under wraps. And while this sounded romantic as the receiver was supposed to have two surprises instead of just one it was quite obvious that Facebook had [...]