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Dec 25

Sorting the Inbox on a Holiday Day. Do We Really Need All Those Impersonal Cards?

Due to some urgent work I had to finish over the week, I have left my email inbox unattended for a few days - which normally results in a huge overload and a few hours to sort everything out as a…

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Dec 22

iPhone 3GS To Be Available in Russia in the First Quarter of 2010

The situation with Apple iPhone in Russia is a very peculiar one but Russian mobile carriers still seem to believe in the geeky gadget - believe in it enough to arrange for the new model, iPhone 3GS…

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Dec 19

Blogging Is Dangerous So Be Careful Going Pro

I don’t think that fascination with making money blogging is such a popular trend that it used to be a few years ago when we only started Profy here - at the time everyone seemed to be determined it…

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Dec 15

Russian Web Search Powered by Google without ‘Powered by Google’

Earlier this month a leading Russian email provider and portal Mail.ru made huge international news due to rumors about the company abandoning Yandex search engine for Google. As of now, web search…

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Dec 11

Every Startup Wants To Be The Next Google But…

I’ve been working in the startup and entrepreneurial online community long enough to notice one trend: almost every startup wants one of two things - either be acquired by Google or become the next…

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Dec 09

10 Questions I Have to Spammers

When I sift through dozens of spam emails that land in my inbox daily or moderate numerous spam comments here on Profy, I can’t help but repeat the same questions again and again because some things…

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Dec 03

International Tech Companies Fall for Fully Cyrillic Domains Fuss in Russia

Only last week registration of the domains in the first fully Cyrillic top-level domain zone began here in Russia - the zone is .рф and the attention it receives from international companies…

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Dec 01

Does Your Online Life Need to Be an Extension of Your Real Life

I have to admit it: I’ve been living a life of lies for the last 3 years with my two identities rarely even meeting each other. My first identity is the online one - or basically me when my computer…

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Nov 06

Wikipedia Prepares for the Noisiest Fundraising Campaign of All

wikipedia globeIn the end of every year Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit institution behind the famous Wikipedia, launches the efforts of raising funds to run Wikipedia next year - to finance salaries…

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Nov 03

Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS

odnoklassniki-ru-logoThe tech blogosphere tends to be very happy when we see new signs of how various governmental authorities go social and adopt various social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Of course it is…

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