Svetlana Gladkova
About: I do all things related to business development and community building at Profy (http://www.profy.com) - the new "social" blogging platform. The most important thing for me is to help our developers make Profy the ultimate destination for all things blogging for any blogger.
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Google Chrome Soon to Beat Internet Explorer. Really?
--Yes, you’ve read that right - if the current trend continues, Google Chrome browser will soon have a market share equal or higher than tha...
Interesting Discovery: PPLjuice Asks if You Are Worth Writing About
--I have just noticed an unfamiliar domain in the referral traffic stats for Profy and since I know this is how bloggers often discover new startu...
Quintura Search Engine Draws the Next Round of a Few Million Funding
--A semantic search engine Quintura has announced today that they have drawn “several million dollars” of funding from Mangrove Capita...
10 Myths about Google Chrome Browser
--Since everyone seems to be determined to cover Google’s newly-launched Chrome browser on every side, I have decided to join in after IR...
MySpace Is Doing Better Than Expected in Russia
--When MySpace launched a localized version in Russia, tons of people were very skeptic about its future with some of the Russian experts predicti...
Docstoc Grows Into a Service to Keep All Your Docs Online and Updated
--Today Docstoc, a nice service that I normally use when I need to embed a document into a blog post, has a major announcement today that is suppo...
Obama Outperforms McCain in Online Campaign
--ComScore has just released some interesting statistics on online campaigns performance of Barack Obama and John McCain. The report addresses the...
Students Advised by Professors not to Use Wikipedia
--I have just bumped into an interesting post on Powerset blog about a small survey they have carried out to see students’ attitude towards ...
Online Video Advertising: Small but Growing
--It is always good to see companies willing to share results of their internal market researches with the public to help other industry players (...
Will Google Finally Make Us Read ToS and EULA?
--It really looks now that Google’s shiny Chrome browser was not actually 100% ready for public debut yesterday and the comic book describin...
Funniest Web Contest of the Month: Find the Best Toilets in San Francisco
--This week sees the launch of a funny and somewhat peculiar contest for San Francisco residents to vote on the best (and the worst) public toilet...
Asian Gamers Heavily Affected by Online Bullying
--Global market intelligence group IDC has released today results of a study of online gaming trends in Asia and they are interesting enough to ta...
Bad News: Google Chrome Crashes Completely. Separate Processes?
--So I’ve been playing with Google Chrome for a while now and I have to admit it: it took only these few hours to crash it. Yes, completely ...
Twittertise – Another Tool for Brand Management on Twitter
--Only yesterday we reported on TwittAd - a new marketplace to connect Twitter account owners with potential advertisers to sell some graphic ads ...
Playing with Google Chrome – Too Simplistic or Perfectly Minimalist?
--As I believe everyone has heard already, Google has introduced a browser of its own - named Chrome. Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz about th...
SocialCast Launches Enterprise Micro-Blogging Tool Today
--SocialCast positions itself as a provider of corporate networking and collaboration platform to help businesses leverage the power of networking...
Another Company Builds a Business Model around Twitter – Marketplace for Twitter Ads
--I wonder when Twitter will finally notice how many people come up with creative ways to use Twitter for business while Twitter keeps earning not...
US Athletes Will Be Taught Proper Online Behavior
--Usage of internet, including social networking websites, is becoming a serious issue for athletic departments across the US. Recently two Nebras...
MySpace Launches Promotional Campaign for “High School Musical 3” Today
--Today MySpace is launching what is said to be its biggest film promotion campaign to date. The campaign is intended to prepare for successful op...
Russia Comes for Money: Yandex Schedules IPO for 2009
--Last week we published a post about Yandex, one of the most successful Russian internet businesses. The post was based on an interview with Yand...
Welcome to a Busy Technology September
--Today we are having the first day of fall and no matter how sad it may be for some of us to welcome this rainy season, September will sure be a ...
Do We Really All Work for Google Here?
--No doubt, Google is the largest internet giant that determines exactly how the market operates and how other players behave online. What’s...
Web 2.0 Industry As a Perfect Example of Crowd Thinking
--Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd ...
Twitter Has Been Officially Fighting Spam for a Week. Results?
--Last Thursday Twitter officially announced its war on spam on the microblogging service and provided some details on what measures would be impl...
Ukrainian School Teachers against Computer Science
--Today we have a very peculiar piece of news from Ukraine - both funny and at the same time very sad. Same as the rest of the world Ukraine is ge...
Microsoft Outbids Quadrangle Private Investment Fund by $60 Million for Greenfield
--Microsoft has just announced that the software giant is buying Greenfield Online, owner of European network of price comparison, shopping and co...
Yahoo Mash Closes. Some Things I Don’t Understand About Yahoo Handling Its Properties.
--Now we hear the news that Yahoo Mash will be closed some time today. It has been announced by Yahoo! in an email all the users of the social net...
BackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments
--We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comme...
Forget Your Small FriendFeed Wishes, We are Having Dream Coming True
--Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started...
It Should Have Happened: Professional Branding Comes to Twitter
--I am sure that every Twitter user has already seen this or that example of marketing or promotion on Twitter. We have also seen ideas that popul...
European Internet Population Rockets to 240 Million with Russia Accounting for 17 Million
--There is internet outside of the Silicon Valley - and here is another proof. comScore issued another press release about European internet audie...
TripAdvisor Helps You Discover Cool Places around the Corner
--Have you ever noticed that while you know tons of facts that you discover when traveling abroad or in some cool places in your home country but ...
Declare Yourself an A-List Blogger
--You thought for people to call you an A-lister you will have to work hard and build your blog into a noticeable name? Honestly, I used to share ...
LinkedIn To Take the Next Step to Making Groups Useful
--It looks like the business social network LinkedIn has chosen a step-by-step approach to developing LinkedIn Groups. When the functionality was ...
ComScore Stats: Yahoo Still Reaches the Majority of Web Population with Display Ads
--Today comScore released a press release detailing its statistics on online display advertising in June - both largest publishers and largest adv...
XIHA Life to Compete for Music Bands with MySpace
--Today the multilingual social network XIHA Life (”xiha” means “fun” and “happy” in Mandarin and also “...
FriendFeed Copying Facebook and Offering Abuse Opportunities
--We used to talk about Facebook trying to copy FriendFeed with the addition of filters to consume the content from news feeds in the social netwo...
Google Suggest Denies Support of Non-English Languages But Already Offers It
--This week Google will be rolling out to all users its “Google Suggest” functionality that has only been available to opted-in users ...
Firefox 2 Users Will Be Prompted to Upgrade
--A few hours ago (at 6.10 p.m. PST) all the online users of the latest version of Firefox 2 started to receive prompts to upgrade to Firefox 3 fi...
Amazon Acquires Shelfari and Places It in an Awkward Competition
--Today news comes to us that Amazon has finally acquired the social network for bibliophiles Shelfari. Amazon has been a long-time supporter of t...
Barack Obama Uses the Power of Social Media Noticed by Mainstream Media
--There’s an interesting article on Business Week today written by CEO of online reputation management company Rapleaf detailing the history...
Yandex Proves We Don’t Have Bears on the Streets in Russia
--It is invariably funny to watch people’s reaction when I mention that in addition to having a Russian name I actually happen to work from ...
Why Do People Google “Internet”?
--Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (...
ExpatFinder: Niche Search Engine for Expatriates
--ExpatFinder is a new search engine for all the information expatriates around the globe may be interested in finding. The site is launched today...
Ma.gnolia Chooses the Open-Source Route: Will It Help Win Over Delicious?
--Today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle creators of one of the most popular social bookmarking services Ma.gnolia (but definitely far behind...
The Best Firefox Extensions: How Useful Are They?
--Firefox team has announced the winners in the Extend Firefox 3 contest for Firefox extensions and add-ons. Let’s take a look at the winner...
Twitter Refines the War on Spam
--Today Twitter blog discusses the new measures the team is taking to fight spam on Twitter. Many of us have noticed that spam on Twitter is growi...
WhozAround Offers a Simpler Way to Plan Events with Friends
--Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Bou...
Embargo Breakers: Who Exactly Do You Write For?
--It seems that recently the problem with embargoes and breaking them has grown acute again. I for one have seen at least 3 embargoes broken this ...
New Look of Google News: Better?
--I can’t help but envy people who are lucky enough to get some new unannounced features from Google when browsing this or that service from...
SocialMedian Discovers a Totally New Way to Use Twitter for Business
--We have already seen tons of things people do on Twitter to help their business - marketing people selling staff, community managers engaging in...
Toluu Stats Provide Blog Readership Insights
--Toluu, the RSS sharing and suggestion service, has found some interesting trends when exploring their subscription data. Caleb Elston, Toluu&...
Thousands of Students Have Their Private Information Exposed after Passing a Test Online
--Approximately 34 thousand of students in the southwest Florida school district have been affected by a security hole and had their private infor...
Sosauce Hints at Amazing Future of Travel Websites
--Today we have an interesting piece of news from Sosauce, a travel startup we reviewed on Profy first when it launched back in May. At the time w...
Microsoft Found the Tool to Compete With Google – Semantic Search
--It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engin...
How Brave Should One Be To Name a Startup Goofy?
--What’s more, it is not simply Goofy, it’s actually squared Goofy! Honestly, I think even simply “Goofy” is bad enough bu...
NewsCred Debuts Today To Offer the Most Credible News to Everyone
--Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the new...
Muxtape Quietly Shut by RIAA
--Bad news for multiple fans of the music mixtape startup Muxtape - RIAA has shut the service and no one even seems to have any details. What prob...
Yahoo Buzz – a Huge Carrot to All Publishers
--Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they sta...
Google To Hire a Lobbyist in Russia
--Google seems to need an extra power in Russia to increase and protect its market share. In Russia this power is not in money or quality of produ...
A “Librarian” for Pedophilic Website Sent to Jail for 45 Months
--Today in the UK a pedophile was pleaded guilty of online sexual abuse of children. The crime of the unemployed Philip Thompson was in running a ...
Google Crowdsourcing the Future of Internet
--Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused ai...
Grooveshark Helps You Consume Tons of New Music without Searching For It
--Today Grooveshark, an innovative music discovery and monetization platform, is unveiling its new Autoplay feature today that will make music con...
Google Sued for Patents Infringement… Again
--I actually hoped there was nothing to sue Google for any more because everyone who wanted to must have already filed their lawsuits but today...
This Year Blog Action Day Highlights Poverty
--Every year Blog Action Day unites bloggers around one topic to bring public attention and raise awareness of some of the most acute problems. La...
Startup Dilemma: To Pitch or Not To Pitch (Yourself)
--Last weekend I published a post about the mistakes that startups make when pitching bloggers. That post attracted quite a number of comments fro...
So the 2% of Twitter Users Do Not Deserve the Service?
--Obviously the guys over at Twitter must have been unhappy about all the buzz surrounding cancellation of SMS notifications to all the countries ...
Experience Project Raises Funds for Non-Profits When You Play Trivia Games
--If there is one case when a pitch I receive will invariably result in a blog post on Profy, it is when I see words “green”, “e...
Twitter Hurts the Entire Industry by Cancelling International SMS, Not Only Users
--I think we have already discussed the issue of Twitter cancelling SMS notifications to all but three countries - US, Canada, India - virtually f...
Brightkite Introduces International Text Messages Right After Twitter Cancels Them
--Is not it funny to see some coincidences in development of various online services? Only yesterday we spoke about Twitter cancelling SMS notific...
Google Ordered To Reveal the Name of an Anonymous Indian Blogger
--Google has been ordered to reveal real identity of a blogger using the company’s Blogger service in a lawsuit filed against the internet g...
Why Does AOL Need Two Lifestreaming Services, SocialThing and Buddyupdates?
--Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the backgrou...
So We Cost Twitter $1,000 Per Year? Why Do They Still Refuse to Charge Us?
--There are two things I want to say about Twitter today: one good and one bad. The good one is that they have finally started to think in terms o...
Forget Discrimination, It Is Better to Be a Woman Online
--I feel that we talk too much about gender online. I also feel that we talk way too much about women and how we are discriminated online. I belie...
Social Online Storage Service Wuala Opens To the Public Today
--Wuala is a social online storage service that is making its public debut today. We covered Wuala back when it was in invite-only alpha testing s...
Olympic Games Shape the Way People Use New Technology
--Associated Press reports today about how the Olympic Games influence the way people use new technology heavier than ever before. What’s mo...
Get Your 20% Discount on BlogWorld and New Media Expo with Profy
--This is a quick post to let all our readers that are planning to attend BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas that you are eligible for a ...
Zoho Enhances Sheet with Visual Basic Macros Recording
--One of the most comprehensive web-based office suites Zoho is having an interesting new feature introduced today to its Zoho Sheet spreadsheet p...
Further Changes on Facebook: Not Only the Circled Number of Messages in the Inbox
--This morning when I logged in to Facebook I realized that I saw something new - and that very little something was a circled number of new messa...
LiveRail Announces Funding and A New Monetization Platform for Video Websites
--LiveRail, the startup claiming to revolutionize video advertising, has two things to announce. First of all, good news for the startup itself is...
comScore Will Measure The Revenue Potential of Ad Networks
--Mere hours after comScore announced the latest statistics for social networks and their usage, the company already has a new announcement. This ...
ProProfs Introduces New Quiz School as a YouTube for Quizzes
--ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a ...
Russian Bloggers Are As Powerful As Russian Hackers
--Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presuma...
Shapeways – 3D Modeling Startup for Us to Customize Products We Buy
--Today a do it yourself 3D-design and production startup Shapeways is launched out of Philips Lifestyle incubator. Shapeways Creator Engine allow...
Tools To Life Teaches Everyone the Basics of Green Living
--Tools To Life is a startup (launched in January 2007 and currently in beta 2.0 stage) that is intended to provide its users with tools for self-...
I Don’t Believe in Organized Cyberattack against Georgian Sites, I Do Believe in Russian Hackers
--I’ve been thinking for a while if anyone will manage to bring the conflict between Russia and Georgia into technology field and I actually...
What Will You Choose for Your Child: Some Porn or a Video Game?
--Until this very moment I was absolutely sure that the majority of parents will choose video games for their children over porn or alcohol. But t...
MeriTalk Will Make the Next President Hear Your Opinion
--It is always easy to criticize, especially when it comes to politics. Unfortunately too many people prefer to criticize instead of actually doin...
Open Salon Is Now Open and Poses a Lot of Questions (First Look)
--This morning a new initiative from Salon magazine debuts - it is called Open Salon and is based on a very peculiar idea to reward users that has...
What Should Bloggers Use Instead of Alexa to Discuss Rates with Advertisers?
--There’s a very interesting post on CenterNetworks today full of righteous indignation against Alexa and the way it has recently lowered ra...
Bloggers Are Hard to Please and Hard to Pitch: Some Mistakes in Pitches from Startups
--I am sure that every blogger has a rather extensive list of his or her preferences about how they want to be pitched by startups looking for the...
EcoFlip – Green Craigslist Live for One Month
--EcoFlip functions very similar to Craigslist in that it is also intended for free classifieds but with one clear distinction: the classifieds he...
Finally Bloglines Realizes It Needs to Make Money
--Today there’s a story on ReadWriteWeb about a new look and feel of the Bloglines beta site introduced by the company along with finally ma...
Yahoo! Enhances Privacy Policy with Complete Opt Out of Customized Advertising
--Yahoo! has just informed subscribers to corporate newsletter of the newly available “privacy choice for consumers”. This basically m...
Let The Games Begin! Websites Dress Up for the Olympics
--It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some...
SecondBrain Aggregates More Services Pursuing Its Plans of Building the Next Millennium Library
--Today SecondBrain announces a number of new services added to its lifestream aggregator and expected funding. For those of you uninitiated, the ...
Schmap Enables Any Website for iPhone Starting Today
--Today a new service from Schmap is out of private beta to help webmasters optimize any of their websites for iPhone almost without efforts and c...
Prepare Your Feed Reader for The Olympic Games – Places To Track Results Online via RSS
--Now that Beijing is almost ready for the opening ceremony, I guess for all the sports fans (or those of us who only turn into sports fans for th...
Gmail Is a Perfect Place for Phishers and Here Is the Proof
--Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: W...
So This Is What DoubleClick Was For: Google Introduces Standard Functionality
--I just love the days when Google makes some important announcement (or not important -it rarely matters), especially when such an announcement i...
Social Media is a Battlefield
--Time and participation are the fuel that feeds social media, in the war for your attention there are a few weapons that are proven to attract th...
Mozilla Determined To Make Internet Future Completely Firefox-Centered
--It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular,...
Follow the Olympics Right from Beijing on Your Cell Phone with Fring
--We have already covered Fring on Profy before but for those of you who are not familiar with this interesting and very promising mobile service,...
FriendFeed Status Blog Anyone? FriendFeed Is Down and It Is Very Disappointing.
--Hello. I'm Svetlana and I'm a FriendFeed addict. I have a habit of checking FriendFeed every time that I strike out every single completed t...
imo.im Multi-Protocol IM Client Now With Skype
--imo.im seems to be one of the startups launched by ex-Googlers that gets less attention than an average ex-Googlers' project and even less t...
Twitter Gets More Malicious Ways to Hurt You – Watch Out for Rabbits
--It should have happened, obviously. We have already seen spammers invading Twitter with their one or two updates linking to the same webpage...
Weighing Business Against Friendship: Exactly Why Is Facebook Valuated That Much Higher Than LinkedIn?
--Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% o...
TripSay Now Open to All Inviting You To Have Your Say on the World
--Today the travel community TripSay is opening its doors to absolutely everyone by switching from private to public beta. TripSay is a social net...
Profy is Redesigned and Does Not Lose Comments to FriendFeed Anymore
--You may have noticed that we rolled out a redesign to the Profy blog (if you are not viewing Profy in a feed reader). We feel that the new design ...
Google Helps SEO Gurus Further – Launches “Insights for Search”
--Google has introduced an addition to both Google Trends and AdWords called "Insights for Search" that is intended to help you "see what the ...
Mozilla Crowdsources Future of the Internet
--The blogosphere is abuzz around the latest initiative named concept series by Mozilla to find out what internet users actually want the inter...
So This Is What a Monopoly Means: What Will You Do if Google Does Not Let You In?
--Today Chris Brogan shares a story of his colleague at CrossTech Media Nick Saber losing access to his Google account completely. The only thi...
So I Still Don’t Have a Friendster Account. Is It Time To Get One?
--Big news today is that Friendster got a new CEO and a substantial investment. You thought Friendster was dead already? Think again, it actually...