In last several years the difference between Russian internet (Ru-net) and Internet became minimal. There are all general kinds of Web 2.0 services: Mash-ups, AJAX Applications, web-services, "youtube-clones" and, of course, Social Networks. There are more then 10 well-known social networks with 100.000 users and more. And they double their network every month! Most of the users are students, graduated student and IT persons. Now, you can encounter with girl in cafe, that provides Wi-Fi services, which is sitting in one of this network.
Most global services has announced about its IPO. And about the half has been bought by Leaders of Ru-net. e.g. yandex bought moikrug few days ago.
here is a list of most popular:
vkontakte
moikrug
fakultet
etc.
Also, Social networks is the one of popular topic in russian blogs for several weeks.
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Interesting Web 2.0 Application
I have already written about different kinds of web 2.0 application.
Today, i found an other on: web 2.0 ... database. It has very nice an user-friendly interface. Also it provides a powerful interface to data (e.g. View). Import/Export to/from off-line formats is the Ad hoc useful feature.
It has about Access + Excel base functionality and provide a rich possibility to deploy and share database.
You are going to use web 2.0 database application or nor, anyway just i advice to take a look to it.
Today, i found an other on: web 2.0 ... database. It has very nice an user-friendly interface. Also it provides a powerful interface to data (e.g. View). Import/Export to/from off-line formats is the Ad hoc useful feature.
It has about Access + Excel base functionality and provide a rich possibility to deploy and share database.
You are going to use web 2.0 database application or nor, anyway just i advice to take a look to it.
Monday, March 5, 2007
WEB 2.0 Innovation Map
This is a map of "homes" of Web 2.0 innovation applications.
It was not a surprise for me that there is no any participant from Russia in this list. The nearest is from Ukraine - and this is a surprise. It looks that SW industry outside Russia is more fresh then inside. But for me, this is a benefit, because i am going to start up my first project in Russia, at least for the first time.
The second "not surprise" - position in US: there is no empty space (in default resolution of google map) on it.
But it's very strange that there are only few in the Australia, China and India.
It was not a surprise for me that there is no any participant from Russia in this list. The nearest is from Ukraine - and this is a surprise. It looks that SW industry outside Russia is more fresh then inside. But for me, this is a benefit, because i am going to start up my first project in Russia, at least for the first time.
The second "not surprise" - position in US: there is no empty space (in default resolution of google map) on it.
But it's very strange that there are only few in the Australia, China and India.
SW Development Industry in Russia and in other countries
I was very wondered that Chinese internet has more then 200 mln of your users, and about 400 mln of Chinese citizen know Enlish at lease on the basic level. For comparison: In Russia, there is about 20 mln of internet users, and english-speaking citizen about 25 mln (by my opinion). I always thought that China is a very big village, where peasants live. I am very worried about India and China, because i am not sure that a few of Russian brilliant-mind IT employers can engage in competition with cheap and educated employers from this countries.
And about the salaries in Russia and China:
University-graduated employer earn 1200$ and 350$ per month in this countries!
But 1200$ in Russia - it's not a very big salary (the common level is about 450$, but most part of salary is "tax free", so it should be about 800-900$).
In opposite, in China 350$ - it's a very high salary, that provides a good level of live.
So: IMHO software outsourcing is not a very perspective in Russia environment, and Russian companies has only one change to survive: build products and sold them to the end-customers all over the world, like their colleagues from West Europe, USA and Australia.
Also, i am sure that everyone must think about success not only today, but tomorrow too.
And about the salaries in Russia and China:
University-graduated employer earn 1200$ and 350$ per month in this countries!
But 1200$ in Russia - it's not a very big salary (the common level is about 450$, but most part of salary is "tax free", so it should be about 800-900$).
In opposite, in China 350$ - it's a very high salary, that provides a good level of live.
So: IMHO software outsourcing is not a very perspective in Russia environment, and Russian companies has only one change to survive: build products and sold them to the end-customers all over the world, like their colleagues from West Europe, USA and Australia.
Also, i am sure that everyone must think about success not only today, but tomorrow too.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
The Story of success
I found an interesting article about Sergey Brin (co-founder of google inc.)
Link
I think it's a very good article about Russian-born entrepreneur and his first steps.
Also, I was very impressed that Sergey's father wished to be an astronomer, because i am studying on this specialization right now.
Link
I think it's a very good article about Russian-born entrepreneur and his first steps.
Also, I was very impressed that Sergey's father wished to be an astronomer, because i am studying on this specialization right now.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Everyday voice meeting
I met with Skype about 1.5 year ago on my first project in OBS Group. It was a big project and i had an casual meetings with the customer about the progress and developers' questions.
Today, i am using skype for the meetings with my developer and i find it very helpful to realize all communications about the project via PC. I am sure the it works fine via Pocket PC and cell phone, connected via bluetooth. It's a great pleasure to be location-independent.
Also, i am sure that everyday meeting and discussing the status of the project with all team is very important for the project success. I am going to continue it on my projects.
All modern project management approaches contains everyday meetings in the team (Customer is the part of team too).
I absolutly agree with this practice.
Today, i am using skype for the meetings with my developer and i find it very helpful to realize all communications about the project via PC. I am sure the it works fine via Pocket PC and cell phone, connected via bluetooth. It's a great pleasure to be location-independent.
Also, i am sure that everyday meeting and discussing the status of the project with all team is very important for the project success. I am going to continue it on my projects.
All modern project management approaches contains everyday meetings in the team (Customer is the part of team too).
I absolutly agree with this practice.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Feed provider
I know 2 ways to provide feed to the users:
- via RSS/Atom
- via provider of media distribution (for example feedburner.com).
I saw that very popular blogs providers their feeds via it.
What are the benefits of this services?
1. Statistic count about the readers, guests and comments. That would helps with blogs search engines and attract the attention to your or site.
2. An other way to add advertisement and earn ad hoc moneys.
So today, i registered my blogs into feedburner
- via RSS/Atom
- via provider of media distribution (for example feedburner.com).
I saw that very popular blogs providers their feeds via it.
What are the benefits of this services?
1. Statistic count about the readers, guests and comments. That would helps with blogs search engines and attract the attention to your or site.
2. An other way to add advertisement and earn ad hoc moneys.
So today, i registered my blogs into feedburner
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
GooglePage Rank & SEO
Google page rank - "is a link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references"
Search Engine Optimization - "as a subset of search engine marketing seeks to improve the number and quality of visitors to a web site from "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. The quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase or requesting further information. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing first to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and secondly to human visitors"
What are the benefits of the high page rank?
1. Google & others search engines will respect you: that mean in the search result, the result from your site will be higher than from the others with lower page rank and it's very important to receive the new customers for your service.
2. Ad (Google Ad) on your site will be more expensive
Today i have found that corp site of my company (OBS Group) has google page rank "1". I think that it's a progress for it and for me, because it was my first SEO experience. Now, I am going to continue training on it. I am sure that expert knowledges in SEO area are very important for everyone success start-up.
Search Engine Optimization - "as a subset of search engine marketing seeks to improve the number and quality of visitors to a web site from "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. The quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase or requesting further information. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing first to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and secondly to human visitors"
What are the benefits of the high page rank?
1. Google & others search engines will respect you: that mean in the search result, the result from your site will be higher than from the others with lower page rank and it's very important to receive the new customers for your service.
2. Ad (Google Ad) on your site will be more expensive
Today i have found that corp site of my company (OBS Group) has google page rank "1". I think that it's a progress for it and for me, because it was my first SEO experience. Now, I am going to continue training on it. I am sure that expert knowledges in SEO area are very important for everyone success start-up.
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