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Re: WordPress.org Bloggers Getting The Word Out

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:07:20 -0000

Thanks for mentioning Profy article as the one deserving attention for future users.
And I can say that Sphere it widget has always been a great addition to our blog, thanks again for giving the widget to us in the first place.

Re: In Japan You Can Take Classes From Your Cell Phone

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:55:33 -0000

Awesome idea, really. You are absolutely right about Japan leading innovation in the mobile field and here is another proof. The only thing I personally think needs to be added is not a social network but something in terms of actual discussion - some conference calls maybe for the lecturer and students to discuss the subject. Anyway thanks for the great post.

Re: Profy’s Blogging Platform Goes ALPHA

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:38:15 -0000

Thanks for the detailed review Steve, I appreciate the time you spent on Profy. I like your honesty about our current disadvantages which we can easily admit.
As for the killer feature, it is not actually the feature - it is more of a concept. A concept of close integration of all the stages included in the process of blogging. Say, you find an interesting piece of news in your feed reader, you search for more information using blog search in the same place (you don't need to go anywhere else - we have Sphere-powered blog search), you subscribe to new interesting feeds right from within the search results with one click. Than you can blog about any news (Blog it!), publish and share with some people. And when you get a comment, you can start a private conversation with the commenter and see what other feeds he or she reads. This is it. It may sound a bit complicated but our goal at this stage is to provide a one-stop tool for bloggers. Later on when we add features (and we currently only have about 20% of the roadmap completed) it will be a more universal tool but the concept remains.

P.S. How comes you did not see the Template tab in the Blog section? We have a number of colorful themes in it. Not too many but we will be adding them as well, of course.

Re: Challenge: Web Culture Around The World

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:53:34 -0000

Steve, I have just sent my own points on the internet usage in Russia. Great idea, I will be looking forward to seeing what you will have to publish as a result.

Re: Technology Around The World: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:25:42 -0000

Steve, it is really nice to see my comment to be the first one published in this series. And thank you for taking the time to find a very Russian photo for the post :)
I will be looking forward to seeing more comments from your readers around the world, really - you can only get to know many things from inside - so the more people share the experience, the more interesting it will be for all of us.

Re: 5 Steps To Becoming More Productive This Afternoon

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:56:03 -0000

I agree with you 100% here Peter! I have all the electronic schedules, calendars and notifications configured to remind me of things that I have to do but I have found that the easiest way to actually complete tasks is to have them all written down on a piece of paper and striking them out when completed. I feel gorgeous when I have nothing left on the daily list in the evening :)

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:59 -0000

Pretty comprehensive list of arguments here, Andy. And I do not think I would want Twitter to implement any monetization strategy based on heavy users and the number of people they follow. The only trend I notice myself is that the majority of heavy users also rely on some desktop client to use Twitter more efficiently (of course, it is a nightmare to try using Twitter without it when you follow hundreds of people and actually want to engage in discussions with them) and a better idea would be to charge users for access to Twitter via API through some third-party application. Otherwise I would not want them to charge me based on the people I want to listen to. But I would not mind them charging me for extra comfort.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:59 -0000

Re: Diggers will find a way to get paid

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:04:50 -0000

But taking money for submitting and promoting links on Digg actually violates Digg TOS. And Kevin Rose is free to delete any account - even that of a top user (for no reason at all) - if there is a hint from someone that this user violates Digg TOS. So why does not he do it?

Re: Where does community end and “gaming” start?

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:47:03 -0000

Thank you for mentioning Profy interview in your 2nd update, Mathew.
The terrible thing is that the only result Digg is going to get is losing some of its brilliant members - together with high-quality content they contribute. But will that actually improve Digg - I strongly doubt that.

Re: Where does community end and “gaming” start?

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:04:31 -0000

Mathew, I will be more than happy to be wrong - but I really see why Chrisek predicts top diggers will leave Digg. I enjoy Digg as an absolutely ordinary member but it is interesting to follow some trends in the community and progress of certain users - usually those you see frequently and start to recognize by their avatars.

Re: My First $10,000 Paid Review- No Disclosure Required.

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:07:30 -0000

Vlad, that's an interesting post and rather an outrageous behavior of the advertiser, I think. Have you thought about reporting the advertiser to Sponsored Reviews? If they establish the rules, I think they should at least try to make everyone (bloggers and advertisers) follow them - otherwise the rules will be pointless soon. I believe that at this level disclosure is not such a big issue: we all know of conflicts of interests some prominent bloggers have when they write reviews of the companies they partially own (or consult, for example). In such cases absence of disclosure notice can really be a big issue and can hardly damage reputation of a blogger concerned. But the reasons to hide the fact that the post is paid for in such a case is something I can hardly understand. Don't they require you to write only a positive review? That would have been a logical conclusion for them :)

Re: My First $10,000 Paid Review- No Disclosure Required.

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:34:56 -0000

Vlad, I definitely agree that the disclosure is vital whatever the amount paid for the post is. I just meant that in some cases bloggers are not paid directly but they benefit in some other ways (by growth of the price of their stocks in the company they review positively, for instance) but such issues are often not disclosed (especially when the blogger is only affiliated with the reviewed company indirectly - via his wife or in some other way). And this can often be a bigger issue, that's what I meant.

Re: Owning my name in Google « My Thoughts On Social Media

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:55:19 -0000

Mike, very reasonable post, really a must-read for anyone just starting with personal branding. I remember in the early days of Profy I did not bother to register accounts named "profy" everywhere I could but now I am most certain to at least add some basic information to any new service launched and forget it if I don't see traction enough to justify my efforts to keep it active. And even if you don't really get any search traffic, it will at the very least provide an extra incoming link or two.

P.S. Thanks for the link, by the way :)

Re: What is Twitter worth to you?

Svetlana Gladkova — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:21:56 -0000

I have added my vote to the $5/month variant simply because I strongly believe in paying for services that I use for business - for example, this is why we have chosen to pay for Akismet on our blog even though no one insisted we should. But the problem with Twitter is that I don't think that with more money they will be able to make it reliable - after all, it is a relatively well funded startup and the problems don't seem to be due to lack of funding.

Re: Facebook to Start Letting Employees Sell Shares

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:43:22 -0000

I'm not sure about one thing: if I choose to buy some stocks at the internal $4 billion valuation and taking into account the official $15 billion valuation based on the latest investment from Microsoft, where exactly will the valuation be when I eventually decide to sell that stock? Will it stay at the $4 billion, grow closer to $15 billion or instead drop further?

Re: Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:27:11 -0000

Yes, this new addition definitely puts FriendFeed in direct competition with Facebook but what I think is good about this is the fact that Facebook actually has the power to bring lifestreaming to a mainstream level, while FriendFeed (no matter how much I love it) simply has no such power.

Re: Facebook Rolls Out Newsfeed Filters

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:14:56 -0000

I think filters will become even more useful when we are able to apply multiple filters simultaneously - like to see updates from FriendFeed for a certain friends list.

Re: SocialVibe’s Members Raised Over $100,000

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:58:31 -0000

This all sounds very good but I actually have a concern about the whole announcement. Don't you feel that 100 thousand of raised donations is a little too small compared to $4.2 million of VC they raised for the company itself?

Re: Skype Connector Added to Imo.im

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:14:29 -0000

Have you tried the functionality yourself? I have tried and it really failed on a number of calls so it's definitely an honest alpha. But I like their approach to combining all the major IM clients plus chats in social networks on one service.

Re: Small mini rant for Sunday

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:26:38 -0000

I guess this is a problem for many bloggers - as soon as you get some readers and pagerank they begin to chase popular posts to add a link (with some of them even trying to overcome the no-follow tag for their links). But I think the poor quality of comments is totally understandable - I've seen people offering to buy comments in batch for mere cents on forums for webmasters. I only wonder if there's some information on how many of such crappy comments get approved and how many are sorted out like spam as I guess many bloggers are less generous than you are.

Re: 2007/06/29/mashphone/

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:15:21 -0000

How about getting an iPhone absolutely for free first? Here you will find the conditions.

Re: 2008/05/19/lycos-webo/

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:31:56 -0000

It is definitely an interesting development, especially interesting to me as an owner of Profy, another new blogging platform that seems to do pretty much similar things for a novice blogger. But the trend is obvious - many of us notice that there is a need for a new type of blogging platform, something that makes blogging simpler for users with new mainstream users arriving.

The only problem that I see here is that the $9 per month seems to be too expensive for the target demographic.

Re: 2008/05/20/milblogging/

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:14:09 -0000

The irony of the move is that from what I've read they only want to allow blogging on the domains they control (I guess this is what .mil domain mean, right?). I can hardly believe that they will tolerate personnel blogging on free blogging platforms like Blogger.com, Wordpress.com or our very own recently launched Profy.com. And I myself don't really believe in free speech when the host is controlled. So it will be a pretty well controlled social media - losing its nature. But you are right, it will serve well to deliver the message they want to deliver - though hardly the message people want to get by reading blogs written by military personnel.

Re: 2008/05/26/google-death-2/

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:39:10 -0000

I tend to agree with the last paragraph of your post - after all, Google is a search engine, not a search judge. And if they ever have any intention of actually checking every indexed story for credibility and truthfulness, they will be absolutely buried in tons of work arriving every minute. I believe, they do the job of indexing the web and presenting us with the results quite well - and we should not expect more from them. Everyone is free to judge how credible every single story is and the company that promotes itself by publishing (and getting links to) a false story, it just should not (and I hope will not) work in terms of building a reputation for the company. While what do the companies look for when handling an online marketing campaign? Reputation, I think, and no reputation can be built with such tactics.

Re: 2008/06/01/is-the-bay-area-overrated/

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:36:59 -0000

Pete, congrats on your two months in the Valley. And you know, no matter how reasonable you tried to sound about the fact that your unique perspective (like Profy's Russian one) can be your great advantage, I think the majority of the startups will still make the decision to move as soon as they can because you have given just the right reasons for why you should love the Valley - for being able to talk about Web 2.0 right on the street and giving real faces to your email contacts. Encouraging post!

Re: 2008/06/04/renting-twitter-path-to-profitability/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:10:58 -0000

The problem I see with this approach of monetizing Twitter accounts (and yes, possibly monetizing Twitter if any power users will agree to participate in revenue sharing with Twitter) is that the property offered does not seem to provide any real value to the advertiser. The background image is large but why would I need to visit pages of people I follow after actually subscribing to them? I don't know, maybe if I need to find something important on their pages while I was offline, but that really happens rarely. Thumbnail images sound better to me - at least they are shown even when the followers read the tweets in a desktop client like Twhirl. But in addition to them being tiny and, thus, only suitable for icons, rarely logos, they don't really allow for the only option that could add value in terms of traffic to the advertiser's page - linking back to the page. So if I was thinking about advertising my company like this, I'd really need to think it twice as it only works to a certain extent for brand awareness, not traffic.

Re: Blogger Adds Slew of New Features

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:46:32 -0000

Interesting, finally something from Google related to Blogger. I actually thought they forgot they had the property at all. Interesting to see what the bloggers will think about it once it is rolled out for everyone.

Re: 2008/07/18/google-buys-russian-contextual-ad-service-begun/

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:33:54 -0000

Stan, Begun is actually the leading player in the Russian contextual advertising market (I'd say the only one but I suspect some other exist that no one is aware of) so it's definitely for the market share (I'd call it a monopoly even). Moreover, Begun is very excited that they will be able to use Google's technology for contextual ads serving. What Google is looking here for is definitely the ability to reach Russian audience at all as it is very complicated to use AdSense here in Russia. (More on it in my own post on the subject at http://www.profy.com/2008/07/18/google-buys-beg....)

Re: 2008/07/25/google-begun-financial-results/

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:08:08 -0000

I guess Google simply has a better nose for advertising market - otherwise it would not have been the leader.

Re: 2008/07/25/google-begun-financial-results/

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:47:38 -0000

Probably not many but if it is only available in Russian, should we avoid covering such news on English-language blogs?

Re: 2008/07/07/babbel/

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:59:26 -0000

It is interesting to see where the company chooses to take its development further now that it has raised its first round of funding today. As a person deeply concerned with all the things related to learning languages, I do think the better approach would be to try to lose the "playful" image and build a truly useful tool for everyone, including language professionals that could also generate some revenue for the site.

Re: 2008/07/31/facebook-news-feed-filters/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:04:25 -0000

I love the new tabs myself - the only thing that still seem to be missing is a tab to aggregate all the activities of my friends with various applications. This would have provided another source of interesting content (the way FriendFeed does) and it would probably familiarized a lot more people with lifestreaming.

Re: 2008/07/31/facebook-news-feed-filters/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:15:41 -0000

Yes, adding a way to filter what apps should get preference definitely makes sense as well. As of now the potential to aggregate all types of content on Facebook is huge and I think it will be only logical if they implement it.

Re: 2008/07/31/facebook-news-feed-filters/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:50:01 -0000

Yes, that one could also be a big advantage - though I guess I'd have to spend quite some time making my choice. Probably I'd choose the same status updates but in my case this is more to watch Twitter updates from my closer friends than the entire timeline.

Re: 2008/08/01/profy-editorial-staff-quits/

Svetlana Gladkova — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:18:01 -0000

Mark, I have published my version of the story at http://www.profy.com/2008/08/02/editorial-chang....

Re: 2008/08/06/mozilla-snowl/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:09:07 -0000

I don't really understand what all the fuss is about. No messaging for now with only possibility to add it some time in the future. And the same multi-tasking, only you don't have to switch between apps, you switch between tabs.

Re: 2008/08/11/russia-georgia-cyberattacks/

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:58:56 -0000

Steven, thank you for bringing the situation to the Mashable audience. It is an important issue that we see internet as a new theater of war these days but I personally don't think it is really all that important: all our online lives are worth way much less than a real life of one child actually killed in the conflict. Don't you think so?

Re: 2008/08/13/social-hacking/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:24:08 -0000

Steven, excellent post this one is. The only thing I wanted to mention is that social media is equally capable of manipulating the crowds both for bad and for GOOD. And for Russians the CNN poll was actually a good cause to help the world see what people really see about the conflict. If it were for a bad cause people would have been much harder to manipulate and no one would have been able to initiate such a viral campaign if people did not believe in the cause.

Re: 2008/08/20/socialmedian-twitter-fundraising/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:31:37 -0000

I think the problem here is that we think that web 2.0 business is something of a large playground and often forget to think about serious issues like legislation when we can simply achieve our goals on social media sites.

Re: 2008/09/02/social-media-behavior-101-soon-a-required-course/

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:44:08 -0000

Excellent points about this behavior caused simply by kids natural inclination to exuberance when in college. But hopefully kids will finally realize that in this era the evidence of such exuberance should better be kept private whenever possible.

Re: 2008/09/10/flickr-redesign/

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:46:18 -0000

I actually think that the added ability to customize exactly what blocks you get on the homepage is also an important one - finally I'll be able to hide my own photos.

Re: 2008/09/22/timespeople/

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:02:12 -0000

Good suggestion on a social network for a group of newspapers, could make better sense here. After all, I would not say that NYTimes overloads us with the number of articles that we could really need a recommendation engine. What's more, it could be better off as an application for Facebook or LinkedIn (better yet) instead of making us build yet another network of friends.

Re: LA Earthquake: Twitter Reports First - Again. Fake Video Caught.

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:53:02 -0000

Great summary: we have to stop praise Twitter for its ability to break news faster or to sympathize to AP because they can't be as fast. We do need both - Twitter for breaking news and mainstream media for in-depth coverage. They do different job and they both do it well. And we in the tech blogosphere often forget that there are lots of people on Earth who still get their news in a traditional way - from TV or newspapers and have no idea of what Twitter is at all.

Re: LA Earthquake: Twitter Reports First – Again. Fake Video Caught.

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:53:02 -0000

Re: Earthquakes, Google Juice and How Content Beats AdWords

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:43:03 -0000

That's a number of impressive examples. I often find unexpected search terms in the logs as well and can't help but feel pity for the readers who found something very tech-related instead of the information they were actually looking for. But are you hinting at a need for a new algorithm here?

Re: Earthquakes, Google Juice and How Content Beats AdWords

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:43:03 -0000

Re: SaaS is an Ancient Model

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:17:07 -0000

Zoli, I have the same situation on Profy with the same 38 years :) It looks like all the blogs hosted either on wordpress.com or blogspot have the same strange glitch.

Re: SaaS is an Ancient Model

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:17:07 -0000

Zoli, I have the same situation on Profy with the same 38 years :) It looks like all the blogs hosted either on wordpress.com or blogspot have the same strange glitch.

Re: Google Layoffs May Affect 30k Workers. Sort of…

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:24:54 -0000

Definitely a step too far (or maybe even a couple of steps) but that does not really mean the discussion is not needed, I think - at least now everyone knows Google has 10k contractors and will probably turn to them to cut costs now. But of course it does not mean all 10k people will be simply let go while to me these stories are simply a good indication of the fact that even Google needs to behave reasonably in a recession.

Re: Google Layoffs May Affect 30k Workers. Sort of…

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:24:54 -0000

Re: Musicians Play for Tips- The Importance of Comments

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:55:36 -0000

Chris, actually I'm not sure it's only the matter of time. I tend to think that I should only comment if I actually have something useful to add to conversation - simply typing "Great post, keep up the great work" does not seem like a good option and I don't think any blogger actually enjoys this type of comments. So I may well have time to leave a comment but I don't feel there's something actually useful to say - especially when I agree with the author (I think people almost invariably comment when they notice and error). But this is exactly when I choose to share the post on SU, FriendFeed, Facebook - it shows appreciation to the blogger and does not require thinking up something to say when you actually 100% agree.

Re: Musicians Play for Tips- The Importance of Comments

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:44:07 -0000

@Ulla: You yourself mention that you prefer to leave more detailed comments - even though I insist that you like simple patting on your back. So don't you think it's just logical that other readers prefer to only say something when they have something to say as well?

Good point about hesitating to comment as a not native English speaker. I am not one myself and this used to be one of my major concerns - until I realized that some bloggers actually prefer to receive a comment with a couple of linguistic defects than no comment at all.

Re: PitchEngine Launches- I Might Have a Plan

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:20:00 -0000

Thank you for mentioning PitchEngine, I have tested it myself for some time and it does look like having a good potential. I can see some additions that could be added to really improve the relations between PR and media.

Re: When Google Owns You

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:28:12 -0000

Good to see it has been resolved but I think that this incident should make us all rethink our complete reliance on Google services for many of our professional or personal tasks. I think some level of diversification should be used to make it all more reasonable.

Re: gOoops (Beta)

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:31:02 -0000

Pretty clear summary of the situation but still I can not agree with you 100% about the first part (the Android one, I mean). The developers may be frustrated about the recent events but there are plenty of things for them to complain about Apple's platform as well (we have had a comparison published by Cyndy, link under my name) so I would not have been so sure Apple is all good and Google is all evil, really.

But the situation with 23andMe is more disappointing. Even if not illegal, it still looks rather strange and even when the company was initially launched, I had my concerns about it since via the direct affiliation between the two companies Google will have genetic information about us and I am already uncomfortable about everything Google already knows about me.

Re: gOoops (Beta)

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:27:58 -0000

Definitely Google's behavior on this issue is pretty strange and I do believe the developers must be worried about this attitude. But I don't think this wrong move means that Android has no chances and all the developers will quickly move to iPhone simply because iPhone's platform is not perfect and has its own flaws as well.

Re: What if I sold ads here?

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:34:34 -0000

Me personally I don't understand your torments. Is it all about ethics? You do something brilliantly, people use it (and some of them even gain profit by quoting your posts and bringing traffic to their own blogs), you are a professional and a profession is supposed to bring you money. And who cares how you use it?
Anyway it happened that there are so many bloggers out there with the most interesting subjects being earning money by blogging and monetizing their blogs. Everyone launches blogs to earn money. Why hesitating when you already have a successful blog?

Re: Bloggers: you getting copied? Sentinel is your solutions

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:41:30 -0000

But knowing who steels my content is not everything - and definitely it is not enough to shut down the websites. Example: I know who is steeling our content, I went to the website with lots of Amazon ads and no contacts, I was looking for the owner everywhere and finally had to go to his provider. But that did not help, either. They still steel our posts - even interviews and such (very personal things, I mean).
So now that I know even earlier - will it actually help me?

Re: A new search engine appears: will you use it?

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:55:45 -0000

Very good point on the distribution, Robert. It is always interesting to see startups launch with an idea of offering something better (and we have already seen to many arguments to prove it is not better) and more scalable without thinking of distribution. Cuil talks about privacy issues without realizing that their approach is only appealing for a small crowd of early adopters. And the fact that this engine is different does not mean that it is better. So before distributing your product to the masses you have to make sure you are much better than the existing competition. And $33 million does not sound like enough both for the infrastructure and efficient distribution.

Re: Warning: Hackers Using Sexy Girls to Infect Twitter Users

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:10:09 -0000

Andy, I don't think that there's a chance of catching the virus by simply looking at the profile or following it - from what I've read on Kaspersky Lab's blog you need to click the link in the tweets from that account to start downloading the trojan. It's very similar to fishing emails and general spam - you are safe unless you click the links.

And the tweets have been deleted from the account already (though I don't see why the account itself still exists).

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Re: Google News: Old News

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:16:53 -0000

Excellent title for the post and I'm glad I'm not the only one this enthusiastic about the announcement. I guess the only people showing enthusiasm are those that studied university at college or university and spent way too much time with file folders of newspapers :)

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Re: Google Has Rogue Agents In Russia?

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:36:07 -0000

Well, the obvious suggestion is that Google is not that capable to work in Russia efficiently while another major company working in contextual advertising - Yandex (the search engine and portal that is pondering an IPO for some time next year) - obviously understands the realities here much better. But that is just a theory, no proof or evidence of this!

Re: SES San Jose: Keynote with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:00:26 -0000

I actually think Microsoft is quite correct in determining the existing problems and the tools to compete with current leaders. But what they seem to fail to notice is that while they are trying to catch up with the competitors as they are now, Google and Yahoo won't be stable and by the time Microsoft new search tools are ready, the company will have very different competitors already and will probably need to catch up again.

Re: Amazon Does the Obvious, Finally: Adds Video on IMDb

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:10:56 -0000

@Geo: Well, that's the advantage of at least being in the US and able to consume those videos for free :)

Re: Friendster Closes $20 Million Round; Focuses On Asia Now; New CEO

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:01:03 -0000

I do believe it's a great news for Friendster and it is also a pleasure looking at the web companies learning to adopt to new conditions - Friendster failed in the US market and instead of trying harder it simply moved to another place where it seems to be more welcomed.

Re: With No IPO On Horizon, Facebook And LinkedIn Let Employees Sell Some Shares Early: Report

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:24:17 -0000

What I still fail to understand is why LinkedIn is valuated this much lower than Facebook with a comparable revenue (and a more diverse range of revenue sources) and a more steady business model.

Re: Google's Russian Ad Buy Blocked On Technicality; Putin's Spanner In The Works?

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:32:29 -0000

Small correction: our Russian president is not Putin any more, it is Medvedev while Putin serves as a Prime Minister.

Re: Language Learning Community Babbel Funded For Growth

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:02:15 -0000

I have a problem with the "playful" image of the product and I do hope that the funding is significant enough for them to overcome it and become an ultimate language learning destination for everyone, including language professionals (that could also generate some profit for the company if it chooses to charge for premium services).

Re: Newspapers Cope With Ad Slowdown: Hold Back On Inventory And Ad Nets

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:27:06 -0000

I think we should not really link this particular fall to the economic meltdown only - another important reason is how newspapers handle advertising on their own sites, how they rely on CPM mostly (which will certainly be viewed by many advertisers as a potential loss). There are many things to that and of course the online advertising industry will need serious restructuring but that does not mean every type of publishers will be damaged equally.

Re: Facebook users from outside the U.S. are spammers!

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:59:02 -0000

Paul,

I'm not sure but I thought it was possible to verify your phone even if you are not in the US? At least here in Russia I got some message from FB to my cell with a verification number that worked quite fine. Maybe I verified something else (confused)?

As for discrimination, you would have felt it even more if based in Russia :) You know, we are unable to purchase from descent e-stores (and, honestly, I don't think we have descent Russian-language ones) as our credit cards are not accepted. And you know, we also have the send-only PayPal accounts to prevent us from getting the money from abroad easily and civilized as the rest of the world does :) I could have put much more items into this list though I don't think it is actually needed - suffice to say the part of the world that is not North America is severely discriminated online. Poor we :)

Re: Chrome beat Opera – IE is next!! No really, it’s true I tells ya!

Svetlana Gladkova — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:38:38 -0000

Kind of uncomfortable to be quoted here as a tech site with the highest share of Chrome users along with failing to notice Chrome is only used by early adopters now. In fact, I mentioned Chrome would be for the early adopters right in my first review of it and I was totally right. And I was joking with my market share of Chrome on Profy post since I know it is only used by early adopters now and the majority of them arrive to the posts about Chrome itself - tech blogs have published a dozen of posts about Chrome each and they get hundreds of visits to their Chrome-related posts.

Besides, I think all the tech blogs I've seen mentioning their Chrome share actually mentioned the appeal of Chrome to the early adopters.

Re: Chrome beat Opera – IE is next!! No really, it’s true I tells ya!

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:08:05 -0000

@Paul: Thanks a lot for the update, appreciate it. You know, I have started to receive comments on Profy from other bloggers claiming to have over half visitors to their blog from Chrome already. But a quick look shows that their sites are newly-launched blogs about Chrome - and when you write about Chrome, you get lots of Chrome visitors, just logical. I hope people will soon realize that and stop bragging about Chrome market share rapid growth - I'll believe it when I see mainstream users adopt it equally rapidly at the very least.

Re: You’re An Attention Whore And You Know It

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:09:13 -0000

LOL Paul, as usual I did not want to go and tell the entire truth (I am a blogger, after all, so I am not supposed to tell all the truth regarding this particular thing) but you have obviously done it for me here. I admit it: nothing feels better than a quote in NYT or Business Week :)