Here is another reason to pay attention to the Russian Internet space. Gazprom Media (part of the Gazprom) has acquired the Russian copy of YouTube – the video sharing site Rutube.ru. The site was started right after the older brother was bought by Google. The Russian site has not received the same amount of money, [...]
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No Comments » While MySpace are still looking for their staff, another network – Hi5 – are welcoming the Russian audience with the newly introduced interface in Russian. But even these guys have been late, the Russian extention Hi5.ru being already booked by cybersquatters. The company quotes the E-marketer’s article expecting Russia to be the 2nd biggest Internet [...]
Zalim Posted in Innovations, Internet Tags: hi5, Internet, myspace, social network, web 2.0 2 Comments » Movie Poster Addict have posted a very interesting collection of posters: all the winners over 79 years (and, of course, updated now to 80 after the 80th Oscar ceremony). If you are into posters – have a look at the way they made it in the old times, and what we have now, and if [...]
I am afraid I was too fast hailing guys from GoDaddy. It appears they are making troubles to some of the Russian hosters – banning the domains registered at GoDaddy and hosted at some Russian providers. I read a post here (in Russian) – in June 2006 GoDaddy blocked 1399 domains hosted at one of [...]
There is a post by Erich Joachimsthaler at Harvard Business Conversation Starter, which is not very new, but I have just been thinking over the same idea lately – where do you lose as a big company with as big a competition, and how do you win as a small company fighting to get into [...]
Zalim Posted in Business, Innovations, Marketing Tags: airline, business-class service, Marketing, start-up No Comments » 
