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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 since I first ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 get ...
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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 ...
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Wikipedia Prepares for the Noisiest Fundraising Campaign of All
In the end of every year Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit institution behind the famous Wikipedia, launches the efforts of raising funds to run Wikipedia next year - to finance salaries of employees, numerous servers or whatever else it may be that is needed to run a huge website that ...
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Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS
The tech blogosphere tends to be very happy when we see new signs of how various governmental authorities go social and adopt various social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Of course it is obvious that we want every single government regulator to be on Twitter and for citizens to be able to get ...
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90% of Managers Want Social Networks to Be Banned or Restricted
I know that there are some lucky people that have managed to persuade their bosses that social networking can actually be beneficial for their work and can enhance the overall web presence of the company they work in. What’s more, there are some lucky people (me included) who can actually ...
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Am I Not Geek Enough if I’m Happy with Vista?
As everyone is obviously aware of by now, last week the world finally witnessed the public debut of the latest operating system from Microsoft, the glorious Windows 7. The newest OS has received tons of positive reviews and everyone seems to love it and people keep comparing it to Vista that is ...
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When Is a Web App Mature Enough to Leave Beta?
Today I’ve seen a rare piece of news in my feed reader: about one of the most popular online task management applications Remember The Milk graduating from beta 4 years after the team began its development. The example they quote is obvious: now that Gmail is finally out of beta (with so ...
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Nokia Closes Its Official Livejournal Presence Tired of Russian Bloggers
We keep talking about how important it is for corporations to build social media presence everywhere they can and what advantages they should expect virtually immediately. But the problem is that sometimes the field of social media is simply beyond the control of people in the corporations - ...
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TwiBack – New Twitter Application to Use Multiple Backgrounds and Profile Pictures and Rotate Them
What do you pay attention to when you visit a profile of some new Twitter follower? I am quite sure you do notice the Twitter background and this is what sends you a certain message in addition to that in the bio and the latest updates. I myself have a few observations regarding what a ...
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