Blog Profile / Profy
| URL : | http://profy.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 686 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.7 | |
| Archived Since: | August 15, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Mail.ru Removed Yandex Search but Google Is Not Getting the Market Share Anyway
Some of you may remember that late last year the blogosphere was engaged in an animated discussion over decision of Mail.ru, one of the leading online portals in Russia, to replace search technology by local Yandex with that of Google. Yandex (which is the leading search engine in Russia with a market share much higher than [...]
Evil Empire Is… Getting Government Support after a Hacker Attack
Today the news agencies, mainstream media and the blogosphere are all abuzz about Google’s decision officially announced earlier today regarding the company’s intention to stop censoring search results on Google.cn, the search giant’s destination site in China. Back in 2006 Google was heavily criticized for their decision to agree to implement censorship on the site [...]
How Many Innovations that Are Truly Useful Can You Name?
The New Year vacation is normally the time when I reevaluate the results of the previous year and consider plans for the upcoming year. This year these thoughts are more or less focused on various tech-related aspects for two reasons. The first reason includes me getting an iPod Touch as a gift and spending probably [...]
Russia Considers Banning Sex Online in the Daytime
Can you imagine going to YouTube following a link on Twitter to watch some video recommended by a friend as a funny one (though NSFW) and since you are not at work, you feel perfectly safe clicking the link to watch it as this is exactly the activity you want to be involved in right [...]
Sorting the Inbox on a Holiday Day. Do We Really Need All Those Impersonal Cards?
Due to some urgent work I had to finish over the week, I have left my email inbox unattended for a few days - which normally results in a huge overload and a few hours to sort everything out as a result. This time is no different other than it is Christmas day today on [...]
iPhone 3GS To Be Available in Russia in the First Quarter of 2010
The situation with Apple iPhone in Russia is a very peculiar one but Russian mobile carriers still seem to believe in the geeky gadget - believe in it enough to arrange for the new model, iPhone 3GS sales in Russia even despite of the disaster with the previous model, iPhone 3G. The very first iPhone model [...]
Blogging Is Dangerous So Be Careful Going Pro
I don’t think that fascination with making money blogging is such a popular trend that it used to be a few years ago when we only started Profy here - at the time everyone seemed to be determined it was dead-simple to start a blog and begin making money off the blog by sharing some [...]
Russian Web Search Powered by Google without ‘Powered by Google’
Earlier this month a leading Russian email provider and portal Mail.ru made huge international news due to rumors about the company abandoning Yandex search engine for Google. As of now, web search on the portal is powered by Yandex, the local Russian leader in online search. But rumors everywhere had it that the company would [...]
Every Startup Wants To Be The Next Google But…
I’ve been working in the startup and entrepreneurial online community long enough to notice one trend: almost every startup wants one of two things - either be acquired by Google or become the next Google themselves. Of course there are some realistic guys who know that any of these two things happens so rarely that [...]
10 Questions I Have to Spammers
When I sift through dozens of spam emails that land in my inbox daily or moderate numerous spam comments here on Profy, I can’t help but repeat the same questions again and again because some things in the behavior of spammers are totally beyond my understanding. So I thought that I’d publish the questions here [...]
International Tech Companies Fall for Fully Cyrillic Domains Fuss in Russia
Only last week registration of the domains in the first fully Cyrillic top-level domain zone began here in Russia - the zone is.?? and the attention it receives from international companies definitely deserves a post. To prevent cybersquatting, initially only the trademark holders and various government institutions are allowed to apply for their new domains. [...]
Does Your Online Life Need to Be an Extension of Your Real Life
I have to admit it: I’ve been living a life of lies for the last 3 years with my two identities rarely even meeting each other. My first identity is the online one - or basically me when my computer is turned on and I write, blog, comment or discuss something. In this life I [...]
What a Tiny Social Media World We Live In
I have a feeling that no matter how successful a person is, he or she will always admire someone who has already achieved even more and has more books published, more millions in the bank account or maybe more children who do better at school - and this is probably what ensure continuous progress - [...]
Microsoft Loses $1 Billion to Russian Pirates and Earns the Same off Legal Sales
Russian Microsoft division has published its report on the corporation’s losses in the country caused by use of pirated software by the Russian users. And the amount is definitely impressive: the company claims that they lose as much as $1 billion every year due to activities of pirates. And while experts claim that this estimation [...]
Women in Tech: Do We Need a Special Welcome?
The topic of women in tech is getting popular occasionally for no apparent reason but one blogger choosing to discuss it on a low-news day because he or she happens to care about the role of women in tech and how it is insufficient or not visible enough or whatever.
Last week we saw a new [...]
Podcaster Charlie from 2012: Does the Blogosphere Look This Crazy?
I have to admit it: I have a secret passion for disaster movies and this is the category of movies that will invariably get me to a movie theatre - even if everything else I can watch on DVD from the comfort of my sofa at home. So I’ve been looking forward to watching 2012 [...]
President Medvedev Plans Our Own Silicon Valley in Russia
Today the president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has appeared with his annual address to the Federal Assembly (the Parliament of the country). These addresses serve to voice out the intentions of the head of the country for Russia’s near future and are usually watched carefully by everyone who is interested in the direction [...]
The Next Best Twitter Account Promotion Method Invented
For quite a while I have been witnessing people experimenting with the very same methods of promoting their accounts on Twitter without actually inventing anything new. In fact, these methods have probably existed for almost as long as Twitter itself has been available to the general public and they probably look boring to everyone already. Both [...]
Facebook Works on International Growth. Rather Clumsily at That.
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. I [...]
Forbes Launches Online Version in Russia, Forgets Russian Users
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. The [...]