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Bureaucrats Now Have a Social Network of Their Own in Russia
	It is quite obvious that the social networking boom of the recent years has resulted in abundance of social networks that probably cover all the niches of society. It is quite obvious that in some countries (like Russia where I live) this process is taking longer than it did in the US because all the [...] ...»

So Which One Is Stronger: Traditional Media or Social Media?
	If you have chosen internet as the place where you do business (no matter what business it is), you probably realize that some of the things that matter to you are hardly important for the rest of the world. You dream about things like getting to the front page of Digg or listening in person [...] ...»

Russian Professional Photography Booming Thanks To Social Networks
	For quite a while I’ve been watching social networking booming in Russia and it has been a spectacular process here in the country with practically everyone now having a profile on at least one of the two major social networks – Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. One economic effect of this boom has been obvious for quite [...] ...»

Russian Users See Political Reasons behind Suspension of a Russian Politicianâ€™s Twitter Account
	Today quite a number of my Russian friends on Twitter are discussing terrible news: a Twitter account of a Russian politician (in fact, working right here in the city of Novosibirsk where I happen to live myself) has been suspended for what seems to be political reasons. The account @sapelkin belongs to Vitaly Sapelkin, a [...] ...»

Posterous Offers LiveJournal Migration to All Those Users Still Sticking to the Dinosaur
	As some of you may have heard already, Posterous is currently having a switching campaign offering one new tool to migrate from other platforms and services a day for 15 days starting on the 21st of June. Posterous, which positions itself as ‘the simplest publishing platform on the planet’, is aggressively adding a ton of [...] ...»

Android vs iPhone in One Family: Is It a Road to Divorce?
	I can hardly describe myself as an Apple fan: every time I buy a computer, I consider switching to a MacBook but invariably end with something Windows-based finding quite a number of excuses for why I would not do that right now. I have frequently criticized Google here for many things in their politics toward [...] ...»

Moscow Schools Follow Google and Promote Usage of Apple
	A short while ago the blogosphere and even traditional media were abuzz the decision of Google that from now on the employees of the internet giant may use operating systems from any developer but one – the exception being Microsoft. The reason is quite obvious: security concerns everyone seems to share about Microsoft. Of course [...] ...»

Every Russian Citizen to Get an Official Email Account and Learn To Use @ in a New Way
	As some of you may be aware, the huge trend for various countries that don’t use Latin alphabet in their official languages is introducing their own alphabets into online communications – and not only in the form of support for specific fonts where needed to send an email or create a blog post (which has [...] ...»

Migrating to Google Chrome â€“ My Rare Praise to Google
	If you’ve been reading Profy for a while, you probably know that Google is hardly my favorite company because of its dubious practices in user privacy as well as its ambitions of ruling the world one day (which I am fairly certain is exactly the intention for the internet giant). I guess this introduction shows [...] ...»

Twitter Day Today: Are You Celebrating? #twitterday
	As the vast majority of people hardly realize, today is the 140th day of the year which is supposed to be a good reason to celebrate the day of Twitter – the immensely popular web service that is trying to teach the world the arts of brevity, clarity, and precision by making us express everything [...] ...»

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