Spam is usually considered to be totally evil and worth no second look when you check your spam folder to make sure there’s no legitimate email that got there by mistake. But I personally have extracted many useful emails from that very folder so I check it every day and pay at least a second ...

When you live in Russia everything about IT outsourcing is something you can not ignore as many people around you earn their money off IT services rendered to customers from abroad. And of course it is even more so for people in India and even in China: looking to cut development costs many companie...

Today I have received one of the funniest press releases I ever got with a person describing a new website he has just launched and clearly stating the reason for his new project: he has lost his job due to the economy and was looking for a way to stay afloat. Of course it is quite understandable th...

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...

Apple is known for their impressive press events where they invite all the journalists and bloggers who could be interested to make presentations of new products and get all the coverage they can get in both online resources and traditional media. Sometimes these events are also broadcast live onlin...

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 ...

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today - that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to...

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is known ...

We’ve been talking quite a lot lately about the future of advertising in the current recession and how we still hope that advertisers will restructure their budgets to pay for more online impressions instead of paying for expensive TV advertising that is also told to be more difficult to evalu...

Computer security is a complicated issue for me as I migrate from love to hate relationships with every antivirus software I use and from the state when I think that I have nothing to worry about even if my computer stays unprotected for a few days (for total incompatibility of the antivirus of the ...