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Re: Facebook Offers a Better Way to Get Back Into Your Locked-Out Apps

Greg Solovyev — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:28:00 -0000

This is BS. Facebook disabled my account and has been telling me that it will take them 72 hours to verify my photo - it's been 6 days so far. Perhaps Facebook lives in a different time.

Re: When a virus at Christmas is a good thing: real-time giving video goes viral

Greg Solovyev — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:42:10 -0000

Wow! Must have been so awesome to be one of the WestJet employees delivering the gifts!

Re: [Hands-On] Citybot Smart Travel Guide Could Turn You Into The Friend Everyone Vacations With

Greg Solovyev — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:41:31 -0000

Ehm... don't you think I should be the first one to rate and rank it cause I do love it? I get your point though. Hopefully we'll get a ton of 5 star reviews from non founders :) Will take my review out

Re: Результаты президентских выборов - Москва - Гракон

Greg Solovyev — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:44:51 -0000

Я думаю, что это очень правильная идея. Мы можем быть полезны именно в подобных процессах.

Re: Гракон - гражданский контроль за президентскими выборами

Greg Solovyev — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:37:18 -0000

Это не важно. Важно, чтобы люди не сидели по углам думая: "все равно за нас уже все решили, и меня никто не спросит, и я уж как-нибудь свой век протяну тут в уголке".

Re: Гракон - гражданский контроль за президентскими выборами

Greg Solovyev — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:37:37 -0000

Важны не заявления кого-то там по телевидению, а мнение самих голосующих. Эта площадка даст избирателям возможность самим увидеть, что происходит на выборах, и составить свое мнение основываясь не только на тщательно отфильтрованных статьях в СМИ.

Re: TripAdvisor Makes Itself Available Offline to Help Travelers Avoid Roaming Charges

Greg Solovyev — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:12:45 -0000

There are a few apps like that, TripAdvisor is just another one in the pile and they are really only playing catch up with this up.

Re: Blogger: Sign in

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:36:51 -0000

another comment

Re: Blogger: Sign in

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:35:49 -0000

Great! I like DISQUS and I have been using it to comment on other blogs

Re: It%26%238217%3Bs+Time+For+An+Open+Database+Of%26nbsp%3BPlaces

Greg Solovyev — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:48:43 -0000

Have you built the app yet? What is it?

Re: Weekend Giveaway: An iPad 2

Greg Solovyev — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:29:19 -0000

Holograms in next 20 years, pretty please...

Re: 10 Must-Have Travel Apps for Summer - SecondAct.com

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:28:15 -0000

Please excuse my blatant promotion, CityBot app is coming in beta in a couple of weeks, and you can sign up to get an early invite at http://citybot.com/ou77x

Re: Essential Business Travel Apps

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:13:27 -0000

This app is going to be available for limited beta in two weeks. Get your beta invitations at http://citybot.com/ou77x

Re: For Companies Outside Silicon Valley: AzDisruptors and Gangplank

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:33:00 -0000

I am in Tucson as well. I'll usually telecommute from coffee shops near the university during the week.

Re: Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype

Greg Solovyev — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:46:52 -0000

Michael, this comment seems like "common place" without any specifics.

Re: One of the "Killer Apps for Android," Swype Opens Its Beta

Greg Solovyev — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:17:56 -0000

how come it was in beta when it is already pteinstalled on Droid 2 and Captivate?

Re: The Present and The Future (continued)

Greg Solovyev — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:39:48 -0000

Just yesterday my friend returned her Blackberry Storm 2 back to the Verizon store and got a new Droid 2. She loved the first Storm, but the second one turned out to be a disappointment - slow, glitchy, heavy, and not better in any way then Storm 1. Droid 2 on the other hand turned out to be a pure delight, totally worth the restocking fee. And she is not an early adopter, she is rather conservative about phones, it took me some time to convince her to try Droid after she had her Storm for 2 years, not to mention that two years ago, a Blackberry was her first smartphone.

Re: - This is going to be BIG! - I Recommend You Read This Post

Greg Solovyev — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:38:26 -0000

I haven't actually done a study to support this claim, but I think that an important predictor of how much a person likes a recommendation is how much that person likes (not trusts, but likes) the source of recommendation. Algorithmic sources of recommendation are neutral in that sense, we do not like or dislike them much, we do not want to be or look like them. In contrast, a human source of recommendation benefits (or suffers) from your attitude towards the person. So, even if my friend is not a restaurant expert, but I like them and want to hang out with them, I would be more likely to go to a place that that friend mentioned in the past. As an example, recently I was looking for a place for dinner, and instead of looking at Yelp, I opened Foursquare and looked at places where my friends were mayors. Only then, I checked with Yelp to make sure recent reviews are good.

Re: - This is going to be BIG! - Building a company that people want to work for

Greg Solovyev — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:25:08 -0000

Very true. I never had as much fun at work as I had working at Zimbra. An important part of keeping the spirit of the team up was our hiring process. Each new person had to fit in, not just be good at what he or she was doing. Another important part was that, the higher one was in the "org chart", the more humble that person would seem around subordinates.

Re: Email Bankruptcy

Greg Solovyev — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:18:25 -0000

Sounds like you need to switch to Zimbra for your email. GMail tags and filters are nice, but not nearly as useful as "saved searches" in Zimbra. You can save a search query in Zimbra and make it appear as a folder, you can edit it easier and faster then changing a filter in GMail . You can even make the UI show you results of a search query instead of just inbox when you open it. Plus, of course you can include tags and folders as part of search queries. Ask @satishd how he does not go email bankrupt ;)
I am using YMail, GMail and Zimbra and my Zimbra mailbox is always the cleanest one although it is also the busiest.

Re: - This is going to be BIG! - No wonder people hate developing for Blackberry

Greg Solovyev — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:43:52 -0000

Same experience trying to get my GF to use loopt or 4sq on her Blackberry Storm. And, yes it does run out of space fairly quickly.

Re: The Startup Visa (update)

Greg Solovyev — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:40:37 -0000

Few points:
1) If you are an immigrant entrepreneur and you do not have your "developing" country, then once you made it in the US it is your duty to help your country by, say, expanding your business to your country and creating jobs there.
2) The sense of patriotism is IMHO an atavism in the contemporary global world.
3) I doubt the answer is a simple as that "because of world bank, IMF, economic hitmen...". I come from a country that was once known as "developing" and the "brain drain" from this country to the US was widely discussed. If you wanted to start a hi-tech startup business in USSR 20+ years ago you'd be in jail before you start it. If you try to start it now in Russia or in Belarus, you'd be robbed by the government as soon as you are successful unless you are willing to bribe the right people, and that's a HUGE improvement from 20 years ago. And that has little to do with IMF, world bank, etc.
4) the US startup scene is so saturated that only the best make it here. There are surely thankful people who stayed in their countries and succeeded because of the reduced competition.

Re: From Scans To Listens

Greg Solovyev — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:07:51 -0000

I can't believe the music labels are still using scans!

Re: Action Oriented

Greg Solovyev — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:34:22 -0000

I would say that hiring should be VERY careful and not rushed, but firing should be quick. But I am of course only generalizing my own experience form few successful and not-so-successful startups where I worked.

Re: Vevo: First Thoughts

Greg Solovyev — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:11:29 -0000

ShanaC, I am not sure which of my points you are referring to. I agree with you about how hype machine works. However, when you build hype, you either limit access to an artificially created circle which then quickly expands, or time-constrain access to create windows of high demand. What I meant to point out in Vevo's case is that they obstruct access with ads, which is different from how hype machine limits access. On the contrary, it de-hypes because it distracts from the content.