tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259107288525098572024-03-05T03:27:56.471-08:00ReviewSoftProSoft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-88590243602648411272012-09-19T06:35:00.001-07:002012-09-19T06:35:19.473-07:00iPhone 5. Major Win vs. Huge Disappointment <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To tell the
truth, it isn’t a surprise now that Apple Inc. remains in the public focus all
the time, and any news or rumours, regarding the company’s products, are spread
in a glimpse of an eye and further widely-discussed among users and IT experts.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Logically,
the announced presentation of iPhone 5 on September, 12 has been a
long-expected event for analysts and numerous admirers in different parts of
the world. In fact, the promising release was somewhat a potentially miraculous
device for everybody, no matter if a person is already acquainted with iPhones
or not. And there you go, or better to say, there you have it, but what are the
impressions?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Truth be
told, I hoped for more. Back in the times when we just got the 4S version,
iPhone 5 was like a future unattainable treasure for the majority of people,
yet what they have eventually received appears to be nothing but an updated
variation, but not the treasure, after all. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
brand-new iPhone 5 has become a bit thinner, a bit narrower and a bit
prolonged. It also features upgraded camera and screen peculiarities and has a
lot to offer in terms of other functional aspects. Yet, is it a really
revolutionary smartphone? It’s seemingly doubtful.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, Apple has always been one step ahead both in exceeding our expectations
and the opposing products. Nonetheless, the situation has, unfortunately,
altered after Tim Cook had become in charge in the company. It’s not that he is
a bad manager, it’s not even about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>iPhone 5 being a bad device, but having witnessed so many inconceivable
devices from the brand in the past, nothing but another miracle is suitable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yes, we
are, perhaps, too fastidious, too picky, too demanding, but that’s, probably,
the only logical evolution of consumer community, which can’t but happen with
time. We all crave for the high-quality services, devices and products, so it
won’t be a problem to move from iOS to Android in the same way like many of us
have already moved from Dropbox to a more beneficial app 4Sync, for instance. Yes,
we are picky, but what is even more crucial is that we deserve to have our
opinion valued and appreciated.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andyc</span></div>
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Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-51276087263662737042012-09-10T09:09:00.000-07:002012-09-10T09:09:32.677-07:00Hackathon Reveals Numerous Talents. Meet MemStash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Without any
doubt, TechCrunch Disrupt event can be named one of the most essential
tech-related events of the year. Launched in San Francisco this time, the conference has
gathered numerous IT specialists, including the more experienced experts and
real newbies as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Along with
the exhibition part, comprising creative presentations of young businesses,
like the cloud ice cream treats from 4Sync, a great deal of fascinating things
have also happened at Hackathon. The competition has unveiled multiple startup
talents, among which MemStash Project plays one of the most prominent parts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The essence
of MemStash is as simple as one can only imagine, as the app is designed to
help people memorize stuff. At the same time, the innovative part is related to
the ways, in which you are supposed to learn. In particular, the core principle
of the service is developed on the basis of repetitive approach, so when you
bookmark a certain part of text that you need to memorize, it’ll send you this
piece via sms and e-mail, until you finally learn it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certainly,
MemStash may be considered quite bothersome or even irritating by some people,
but the main reason to try the app is that it’s really effective, no matter
what the skeptics might claim. Like it or not, but you can’t help memorizing
the foreign words, poems, telephone numbers or people’s faces, if you see them
for multiple times and on the regular basis.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As MemStash
authors state, the current app mode is only the beginning, and they’re planning
to further upgrade it in the nearest future. As long as they remain as
persistent as they are now, the chances to succeed are very high. </span></div>
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Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-39977737522761014022012-09-06T06:21:00.000-07:002012-09-06T06:22:45.805-07:00Startups’ Future Gets Brighter with AngelList Docs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s hard
to argue with the fact that the introduction of crowdfunding and seed funding
has opened a brand-new page in the IT world, where it’s far easier and quicker
to start and develop your young business.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In fact,
it’s really due to seed and crowdfunding, which has made it possible to realize
creative ideas and further develop them, as long as you’ve got a convincing
business plan for potential investors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same
time, it hasn’t been till now, that the actual results of successful deals
(read: large money transactions) could be also conducted online within a
resource, having brought investors and startup authors together. Well, the
situation is likely to change for better, now that one of the major players in
the niche AngelList introduces its Docs. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaufx1hA-EEjEE6lI1ZTaMiAOaVPIGFkLQmOYM0oFsd-YWo3T2yN83hzyqXI2_wepy5tynAwZLgK5LWqA0L6ZwxzhByGLJsszzAHn4CWQWzJcT97-UNWJ_BXtjmpY3Zk58Z_aa0TwpLjYm/s1600/angellist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaufx1hA-EEjEE6lI1ZTaMiAOaVPIGFkLQmOYM0oFsd-YWo3T2yN83hzyqXI2_wepy5tynAwZLgK5LWqA0L6ZwxzhByGLJsszzAHn4CWQWzJcT97-UNWJ_BXtjmpY3Zk58Z_aa0TwpLjYm/s1600/angellist.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The essence
of the project is absolutely simple: as long as the startup appears to have
gathered sufficient amount of investors’ money, the deal can be so to say
closed in the online mode. As soon as all required details (e.g. list of
investors, total sum of money, etc.) are provided, AngelList Docs will create
the term sheets and other agreement documents 100% automatically.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not only
the fresh project allows to spare time and efforts with the preparation of the
mentioned papers, but as AngelList representatives claim, it will also enable
to curtail formerly obligatory legal fees that are sometimes way too high to
handle.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a whole,
with a great deal of rivals, including KickStarter and Y Combinator, for
instance, that are today rapidly upgrading both the range and the quality of
their services, Docs is what can really bring AngelList to the top of
popularity among investors and, surely, startup creators as well. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Therefore,
if you’re just thinking of founding your own business, it’d be helpful at least
to check what Docs make possible for you to do, but only after you attend
TechCrunch Disrupt 2012, SF. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That’s so
as such a large-scale conference will open up a great deal of opportunities for
startup authors, regarding their communication with other young, yet already
successful IT companies and influential investors. As for “learning about
others’ success part”, I’ve read that 4Sync will even be serving their special
cloud ice-cream at the event, for example, so you will also have a chance to
satisfy your physical, not just intellectual hunger. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Don’t miss
your chance to take a step forward!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Oh, and stay
cool)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
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Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-55190495136219187712012-08-28T05:44:00.000-07:002012-08-28T05:44:39.491-07:00ÜberGreat Taxis Got to “Uber” Service <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you’re
still ordering taxis by phone being a US citizen, then you’re either fond
of classics or a truly conservative person. Otherwise, you’d perhaps be for
long get accustomed to getting a cab via the fresh convenient “Uber” service. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On to the Semantics</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For those,
who aren’t keen on German, the word Uber is recognized to be either a prefix or
a preposition meaning “over/above”. In this respect, it’s absolutely logical,
that the company founders have selected such a name for their enterprise. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pros vs. Cons</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Believe it
or not, but in some ways Uber is truly exceptional, even though I wouldn’t be
sure it’s the very first rival in the relative niche. The taxi-ordering service
also enables you to pay for the ride online, and the car is mostly provided
exactly on time, so you don’t need to worry of being late for an important
meeting or a flight, for instance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same
time, as there’s virtually nothing utterly perfect in the world, Uber has also
got a few flaws of its own, like the price aspect, for example, or the
necessity to take care of your payment account on a regular basis. Yet, are
those real drawbacks?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, no matter how much some people can argue, what we all crave for as
consumers is comfort, and consequently, the simplicity of usage. Much because
of that, Uber is a catch in the taxi-ordering sector, likewise as 4shared is a
catch as the file storage, or Gmail is a catch as an e-mail service. It’s just
the objective perspective. </span></div>
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Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-30456549239658092232012-08-07T07:08:00.001-07:002012-08-07T07:08:31.370-07:00Is it an E-Mail War? Microsoft Introduces Outlook.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How it Was and Is</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, Microsoft belongs to one of the largest and the most powerful IT
companies in the world, having millions of fans and admirers around the globe.
Yet, the enterprise has somehow started losing its user ratings lately, much
due to the growing demands for convenience and simplicity of its services. In
particular, Microsoft’s old-known Outlook Express has already become quite an
old-fashioned one among the range of e-mail options and is rarely used these
days.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the
contrary, Google is generally considered a highly innovative company that
invests much in making its products as user-friendly as possible, including
perhaps the most popular e-mail service in the world Gmail.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How can it be?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Apparently,
Microsoft has got sick and tired of its reputation to be an old-school IT
competitor in the e-mail niche, as it’s recently presented its Outlook.com. As
it’s stated, the fresh mailing rival is absolutely beneficial to try and can
even overpower Gmail in its features. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhcwqeTykZ3Ych9c2Vr4lpPUIFQVYa1iav-KCFA3_CYRw8O7W-V9Ik1v8NCHHogoJovRKeQxxlPfYePTlWAaK_w7ajt-Z9d2Ze2GJIx4GXvGxcYJCl0JtdsA4yjMudbDcnLPdR7Whj9JE/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhcwqeTykZ3Ych9c2Vr4lpPUIFQVYa1iav-KCFA3_CYRw8O7W-V9Ik1v8NCHHogoJovRKeQxxlPfYePTlWAaK_w7ajt-Z9d2Ze2GJIx4GXvGxcYJCl0JtdsA4yjMudbDcnLPdR7Whj9JE/s1600/11.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the
authors of Outlook.com pinpoint, the most obvious advantages of the service are
related to seemingly unlimited amount of space for letters, its integration
with famous social networks and the possibility to create e-mail aliases for
users’ convenience, not to mention the available WYSIWYG editor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sounds
awesome, right?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How will it be?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Surely, it
goes without saying that Microsoft has put incredible efforts into the
development of Outlook.com, and the service can’t simply be a huge
disappointment. At the same time, it’s seemingly doubtful that a lot of Gmail
fans will move onto using the fresh rival. Why not? Well, it’s crystal clear:
as long as you’re absolutely satisfied with what you have, you won’t bother to
change your preferences. Likewise as with Gmail, you wouldn’t bother to move
from the beloved Internet browser, music player or even file storage, like
4shared, for example. What for? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Therefore,
even though Outlook.com has good chances to find its devoted admirers, all
talks about its future conquer of the e-mail world can be considered a good
joke. At least, that’s how I see it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-1467467639096861722012-07-30T07:46:00.002-07:002012-07-30T07:46:48.484-07:00Innovative Search Options: BitLy Takes a Step<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has
become pretty common lately to shorten long links and make them simpler to
share with others. I wouldn’t even exaggerate to state that the majority of us
are quite accustomed to using services, like BitLy for the described so to say
“shortening” purpose.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is how
it was in the past. The thing is that from now on, BitLy isn’t only specialized
in one specific niche, but is likely to expand its fame to a considerable
extent, having introduced its search engine for trendy links in social media. Someone
would, perhaps, say that this sector is totally occupied by Google for good,
but they might happen to be wrong.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reason
is that what RealTine by BitLy offers is not really the search engine we’re
more acquainted with: it enables users to define a number of search parameters,
which help specify and acquire the most relative results. Similarly to what
4shared.com, for instance, offers to define to find the needed file, the new
service provides the options to narrow the results to particular social media
(e.g. Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr), geographical location, language and sphere
in addition to the entered keyword. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Being now
available in its closed beta version only, RealTime is accessible to BitLy
registered users, and you need to have your sign-up application approved. Fortunately,
the approval usually takes little time (at least mine was checked within a few
minutes), so you don’t have to wait to start surfing for the trendy links. At
the same time, be prepared to find out that the received results aren’t always
satisfactory either in the quantity of links or their actual relativity. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, BitLy has always had something innovative from the moment the service
entered the market, and the creation of RealTime works as the perfect proof of
such statement. Who cares that it won’t, obviously, become the next Google for
trendy links, if it still provides us with something highly significant: the
choice of which app or service to opt for. </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-22754513136888322262012-07-16T07:56:00.001-07:002012-07-16T07:56:27.765-07:00Facebook Ads: Targeting Digs into Mobile Apps<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It became
clear quite a while ago that one of the weakest aspects in the profitability of
Facebook was related to the monetization of mobile audience, that is, getting
more revenue from users, who access FB on their smartphones and tablets.
Therefore, as soon as the owners of the service were done with the IPO fuss,
they got down to business. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for now,
it’s already possible to browse the first steps in the company’s new mobile ad
strategy: FB has integrated specific mobile app targeting options, which enable
track, which apps are installed on their gadgets and thus display only related
ads in the mobile version of the site. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Such app
targeting innovations are, undoubtedly, essential for Facebook and can increase
the company’s profits to a considerable extent. The definition of what mobile
applications people are using, will, actually, enable to figure out what users
wish to have, what they are willing to pay and give them the ad they will
respond to. Not bad, ha? </span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgtx_j0PqVYFrowWDmBaGnDVP4JFN6eemy8fyGUX8R6zGfnlP_udG-sAbQLjJAOdf2eNEj5ySfi_Q49G-XXWIhnRqMLlGJhqVxmxCnQJ_tF5FTtf-3rWRc7A92zoGWd4GH-qNM5UJp_Kd/s1600/Untitled-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgtx_j0PqVYFrowWDmBaGnDVP4JFN6eemy8fyGUX8R6zGfnlP_udG-sAbQLjJAOdf2eNEj5ySfi_Q49G-XXWIhnRqMLlGJhqVxmxCnQJ_tF5FTtf-3rWRc7A92zoGWd4GH-qNM5UJp_Kd/s1600/Untitled-1.png" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Certainly,
the introduced differentiated mobile app ads appear to be much better, than
just the usage of provided basic users’ info, like personal interests or place
of birth, for instance. Moreover, it hides so much potential that can, in fact,
make Facebook owners much wealthier, than they hope. Yet, is it just?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the
time on, our personal data becomes more and more accessible to versatile
services, leaving no space for what we used to know as “private”. It sometimes
seems that we are always watched or tracked by someone, who can use the
information, which isn’t supposed to become public, when it’s necessary.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Obviously,
the reasons why Facebook mobile ads dive more into our lives through
newly-added targeting options are related to money, but there should surely be
predefined the line of privacy, which the companies should be forbidden to go
beyond.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I often
miss the times, when the information you provide only included the chosen name,
e-mail address and password, like it is still required at 4shared, nothing
more, so that I can keep what I like, who I know and apps I use to myself. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-21389328849485684592012-07-03T06:23:00.002-07:002012-07-03T06:23:11.227-07:00Design Gets into Limelight at Gojee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Naturally,
the changes in the IT world are mostly continuous and totally inevitable. Some
of these are relatively minor and mostly concern the shift of audience’s life
interests (the shift of popularity between music and photo applications, for
instance), whereas others are much more important, including the priority level
of services’ design and functionality.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Essentially
speaking, it’s been for long now that the functionality of a device or a
service has been taken as the prior notion. Even though Apple has brought back
the image-focused gadgets with their iPhones and iPads, no one would dare say
those are inferior in functionality in any way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for the
apps and services, the functionality remains at the top, leaving the design
peculiarities behind. It would be basically enough to create a high-quality
logo, select the colourscheme and the fonts, other that that, it’s vital to
care about the features, in the first place.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same
time, there can be distinguished a few exceptions of a rule, as a number of
services have opted for making the service’s design its most efficient part.
Among these, one of the recipe-sharing sites Gojee can be easily called the
embodiment of great design solutions and exquisite style.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The overall
delighted impression about Gojee is, perhaps, influenced by the initial purpose
of its creation – sharing of recipes. In this respect, the full-screen
background picture of dishes and drinks is what every visitor craves for,
whereas the fast sliding bar enables to check the available variety of cooking
instructions. At the same time, what Gojee lacks is, obviously, the powerful
functional basis, as there’s neither a convenient search option nor the mere
division of recipes into categories, for example.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, the notion of balance appears to be the most valuable thing in the IT
industry anyway. No matter if it is a gadget, an app or a service, it has good
chances to become globally popular, as the grandees, e.g. Facebook, Google or
4shared, in case both the functional and the design aspects are taken care of.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-69606879233451506102012-06-26T08:01:00.001-07:002012-06-26T08:01:39.176-07:00ThisLife: Do We Really Need More Photo-Sharing Options?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reasons
why we desperately need photo-hosting and sharing services can’t ever be disputed,
that’s for sure. It’s not even about our natural desire to boast about our
photographer talents all around the Web among people we know and those, who
aren’t that lucky yet. Just picture the day when you’re phone suddenly deletes
all photos or videos, which you’ve taken on it. It’s scary, isn’t it? Well,
this is what photo-sharing services are about – to make your life simpler and
calmer, at least as far as the safety of your digital masterpieces is
concerned. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Logically,
there have been introduced a lot of photo-hosting and sharing resources, like
Tumblr or Flickr, not to mention Instagram (now owned by FB), which already
have millions of users and devoted fans all over the world. Yet strangely, the
new players on the market are continuously introduced to the public even now,
though the current selection is more, than sufficient.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhol3Vo3YonlPnjtgIqDc_ALiZkSxtU5qUcaTU7MKfiQB56ivOMVuRXRAVjily_JUPAZf_JW5RrAKoUMIdPKKEa8OfVdBvOQXiRtJTdye25-LdimqnZmhp9A6O7sE-QKO0l3dmO1iWSx_QT/s1600/26.06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhol3Vo3YonlPnjtgIqDc_ALiZkSxtU5qUcaTU7MKfiQB56ivOMVuRXRAVjily_JUPAZf_JW5RrAKoUMIdPKKEa8OfVdBvOQXiRtJTdye25-LdimqnZmhp9A6O7sE-QKO0l3dmO1iWSx_QT/s1600/26.06.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the
mentioned services, for instance, is known to be called ThisLife and is
specifically aimed at sharing photos and videos among the family members. In
this respect, whereas it’s totally understandable, why the authors have
launched it (to take the barely occupied market niche and earn some money),
it’s still pretty hard to grasp, why ThisLife would attract the attention of
millions.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’d be,
certainly, inappropriate to say that the service is 100% useless, as it
features well-designed photo-album layout and the overall UI is rather
convenient in usage. Yet, is it special? That’s the question. Likewise as its
ancestors, ThisLife enables group sharing of photos, different view modes and
the opportunity to upload versatile family videos as well. At the same time,
the storage space for loads of supposedly funny stuff is limited, so you will
have to pay to share more, than 1000 photos (that is use more than 5GB of
space).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover,
there can also be a sort of hidden disadvantage both in ThisLife and the
similar small or mid-sized photo-sharing services – data security. Even if you
can believe in the fact that your password is never uncovered (as it happened
with Dropbox users), who can guarantee that your photos won’t disappear, when
the service becomes clearly unprofitable and is shut down?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
we all decide for ourselves, which photo-hosting to use, and which not to. As
for me, I belong to people, who prefer keeping all files at one hand, not remember
numerous passwords. For those, like me, separate photo-sharing sites aren’t
needed, especially if they use 4shared or any other file storage for saving and
sharing data. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-71849089515928170292012-06-19T08:25:00.000-07:002012-06-19T08:25:05.432-07:00Ubokia & Its Reverse Sales – Possible Advantages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s been a tradition both in real-time and
online retail industries to use the well-known working scheme in the business:
a potential buyer checks the diversity of supply and selects the desirable
goods. As for now, either because of the changed consumers’ preferences, or the
growing competition on the market, there have already been presented fresh
services with the so to say “reversed focus”. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aiming to
satisfy customers’ tastes and wishes to the fullest, an array of brand-new
online retail services are offering their clients to post info about the goods
they need and let the sellers contact them themselves. In this respect, one of
the major rivals is recognized to be Ubokia, offering to simplify the search for
a desirable product.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The essence
of Ubokia is crystal clear: as a user, you get an opportunity to inform the
sellers of what you wish to purchase by posting your WANTS, yet this is far not
the only option to select from. It’s also possible to browse what other
people’s wish to buy, or even sell something.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxPq1jdw_-_sBW1qBkdfqFQVrigAR2dAVKAUyoc9oJ7SV4DV9ZDMt6v3JnXlMsPoWXjhiNMWEk37WqF34eWKsvdouuIYjnpQRyYSOX265emS40hg-BqisKIZRCYVrty_KIRKSBF32Phsa/s1600/19.06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxPq1jdw_-_sBW1qBkdfqFQVrigAR2dAVKAUyoc9oJ7SV4DV9ZDMt6v3JnXlMsPoWXjhiNMWEk37WqF34eWKsvdouuIYjnpQRyYSOX265emS40hg-BqisKIZRCYVrty_KIRKSBF32Phsa/s1600/19.06.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover,
the essential advantages of Ubokia lie in users’ ability to define versatile
details, like the group of goods or the needed location, while browsing others’
WANTS, which makes the purchasing process even simpler. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, Ubokia is seemingly a beneficial service for people, who are willing to
purchase online, but aren’t willing to surf for the best offer for a long time.
At the same time, it’s rather questionable, whether the site will become a
global passion, as many of us don’t have enough time to wait, until the sellers
send their offers. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for the
general outlook at the ideas, which Ubokia uses, these are, undoubtedly,
advantageous both for buyers and sellers. No wonder that the similar ones have
already been implemented in a large number of services, like social media
sites, for instance. In particular, Facebook usually sends friend or article
suggestions, whereas Twitter allows users to browse through trending topics at the
site. Likewise, 4shared file storage enables you to check the top searches in
various categories, so that you can find what you need easier. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thus, all
we can say now is: good luck, Ubokia, and thanks for your broad vision.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-9349913918901996852012-06-12T08:04:00.000-07:002012-06-12T08:04:46.327-07:00United Online Buys SchoolFeed – Social Networks Prove Alive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ok, if to be completely honest, I consider
myself as one of the skeptics, who can’t wait for the moment of social
networking sites’ decay. Yet, the current deals on the IT market somehow prove
the pessimistic forecasts wrong.</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has
already become clear that the populatity of SM monsters, like Facebook, for
instance, won’t deteriorate at least in the nearest five years. Both the
company’s purchases of Instagram & Glancee and the development of segmented
FB apps for photos, videos, and so on, have sustained its top-position in the
eyes of potential partners and users. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Moreover,
it has recently become crystal clear that smaller social networks, which are
likely to focus on specific audience, have also got their more or less
prosperous future. In particular, the popular service SchoolFeed, offering
users to browse through numerous uploaded yearbooks and find former school
friends, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been just bought by a large
IT enterprise United Online (the parent company of Classmates and other
services). </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-04JTCjaWEdPj2s5tB-buin5y2Z_1PF-QUvomQXBJrjsCGnU6bl4R7dWnEJcnDuJwdCWEuEuiNXqKZOf_n7qVSazmjQbeqFBsjbXTCmhyL0ZamoXSCWXukj7oX1Bqspk49ubHE3RgYg6f/s1600/unity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-04JTCjaWEdPj2s5tB-buin5y2Z_1PF-QUvomQXBJrjsCGnU6bl4R7dWnEJcnDuJwdCWEuEuiNXqKZOf_n7qVSazmjQbeqFBsjbXTCmhyL0ZamoXSCWXukj7oX1Bqspk49ubHE3RgYg6f/s1600/unity.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why this
deal is rather significant in terms of the social media perspectives is that
United Online has apparently got plans for uniting the mentioned SchoolFeed
with their own service Classmates to create one powerful social network out of
two. Its functionality will certainly expand from simple browsing through
versatile yearbooks or school alumni and will, perhaps, enable to back up the
found friends’ photos somewhere else in the cloud, not just within users’
profiles.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
it’s hard to predict, whether such function will really be implemented, but if
it is, my personal preferences would go to 4shared. First of all, I’ve already
got my account there and, secondly, because the amount of provided space and a
wide range of disposible features are totally striking. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, we’ll
see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-6601718566509957372012-06-08T08:07:00.000-07:002012-06-08T08:07:03.801-07:00Will HR Industry Get Smarter with Smarterer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since hiring the best personnel is recognized
to be one of the most important factors, if you wish to succeed in your
business, no matter what industry you’re working in, various HR-focused
services have also become highly popular on the market. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most of
these, like Jobvite, which simplifies the hiring process using referrals,
social networks and even e-mails to invite a desirable talented candidate to a
job interview, are oriented on finding the very best employees for the company,
so that one would invest all his/her talent, creativity and efforts to make the
enterprise prosper.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Other
services, on the contrary, help acknowledge all possible pros and cons of the
company that is going to offer you a job, or has already done that. Considering
your future employer’s intentions to use all your creativity and efforts, as
it’s been mentioned above, it would be great to find out, what you will gain
instead (e.g. social bonuses, vacation, flexible working schedule or else). The
most famous one among these is, undoubtedly, GlassDoor that helps you find out
all about the “real company face”. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover,
there has recently been introduced one more HR-focused service, which would be
potentially advantageous both to employers and employees, as far as its authors
are sure of, - Smarterer.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1s5_3LkS0T14G0fjT5wLRJ_x0I104emmYKbVvz73XXc1mNpaHzrd9xzHykycP0PAuP1F684N9JWd0_vFxA0iT6vFI91RfljTZK5TuHAubNTzZhXZJbpMMWCqoGc0OIZF6bqCNcjoFlIey/s1600/7676.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1s5_3LkS0T14G0fjT5wLRJ_x0I104emmYKbVvz73XXc1mNpaHzrd9xzHykycP0PAuP1F684N9JWd0_vFxA0iT6vFI91RfljTZK5TuHAubNTzZhXZJbpMMWCqoGc0OIZF6bqCNcjoFlIey/s400/7676.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what is
worth, Smarterer is really unique to a considerable extent, much because it
uses a somewhat different approach, moving away from resumes, social media
profiles and referrals to the professional skill tests as one of the most
essential aspects in hiring a person.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One the one
hand, such an innovative vision might be useful for HR managers, who are
constantly looking for the fastest and the simplest ways to hunt the best of
the best. Nonetheless, there are also quite a lot of drawbacks in Smarterer
service. To start with, the skill quizzes presuppose timing for each question,
so if you need do some thinking over the right answer, your chances to fail are
rather high. Besides, the quizzes contain a limited number of questions, so
even if you don’t know the answers to all of them, it can’t really prove the
fact that you’re not a pro in the subject. Likewise, you can always guess them,
so the quiz doesn’t fully show any of your skills.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anyhow, it
would be wrong to say that Smarterer is totally useless. You can check your
skills at least just for yourself. At least, I’ve even saved several of
screens with my results at my account at 4shared already to boast about how
good I am, perhaps, in future. Fortunately, there’s still much space from 15
free 15GB left. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-76644913299549313992012-05-30T08:13:00.000-07:002012-05-30T08:13:04.173-07:00Image is Everything. Piccsy Causes Stir with its Pitchdeck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For what it
takes, the current versatility of photo-oriented sites is absolutely stunning. Of
course, there are the old-known rivals, like Flickr or Tumblr, offering users
the possibility to create their own photo-blogs, browse others’ works, store
and share their masterpieces with others. At the same time, an array of newbies,
like Pinterest, or Imgur, for instance, is somewhat innovative, but their aim
is pretty similar, being the global sharing of beautiful, funny or simply
unusual photos. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nonetheless,
despite a wide range of useful and convenient features, available for users,
most photo-hosting and photo-sharing apps and services don’t pay likewise as
much attention to their own image, at least as far as their pitchdecks for
investors are concerned. It is even better to put it this way: either they pay insufficient
attention to those or just don’t show them publicly to users, so it’s hard to
evaluate, how creative such pitchdecks, actually, are.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhjnBYWI6zuEEGmFYOE6rmEsq2ZZj8-JnaIQ2bkmSmM_UwQIR6qohJJzUcZbRcv6xGbbzTcZru8LAPkbmV4OmiuL1HtexwvQg_NkmuLTPu8adP6DeqrtE6P4ChCopB-V7bjlstRoOEmGc/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhjnBYWI6zuEEGmFYOE6rmEsq2ZZj8-JnaIQ2bkmSmM_UwQIR6qohJJzUcZbRcv6xGbbzTcZru8LAPkbmV4OmiuL1HtexwvQg_NkmuLTPu8adP6DeqrtE6P4ChCopB-V7bjlstRoOEmGc/s1600/2.jpg" /></a></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anyway,
there are freshmen on the photo-sharing market, like Piccsy, who have opted for
public description of their benefits at the official site in the bright,
colourful and, what is important, comprehensive pitchdeck, which overplays many
of the popular pitchdeck templates.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is not
that there appears the instant desire to name Piccsy the top app among the
others (I still can’t handle any service, except for 4shared, for storing and
sharing all my files, including photos), but if I were a wealthy man, I would
certainly think about investing in it. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for
average users, they will certainly appreciate the service that finds it
essential to maintain its trustworthy and positive image.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All things
considered,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there can be formulated some
helpful advice for photo-oriented startups, or even any startups in general: as
long as your business is still at the stage of its early development, don’t
forget that your image is vitally important, so make sure that it’s the way you
wish it to be. In this respect, your pitchdeck IS your image to a considerable
extent, thus do everything to make it intelligible, creative and bright.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Oh…and stay
cool)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-12270362354585613092012-05-21T05:34:00.002-07:002012-05-21T05:34:44.220-07:00Successful Facebook IPO –What's Now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It would be too less to say that the whole
world has been expecting FB IPO for quite a long time. This has become one of
the most media-covered and discussed events in the global IT world with
incredible amount of gossip regarding its possible results and consequences.
Now that the IPO day has passed, the only thing left is to analyze. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To start
with, although many skeptics had been questioning the high stock price before
Facebook IPO started, the results of the offering have exceeded their expectations.
With initially established stock price of $28-35, the eventual price of each
stock on May, 18 reached $38, 37 at the closing point, whereas the very first
part of them was sold for $42 each. In a whole, the overall capitalization of
Facebook is now estimated at almost $104 billion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What is
essential, such successful results could even be better, perhaps, if to
consider the technical hurdles during the day, which NASDAQ has already
apologized for.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoe5SB0DzzRM-LS844WL3TEsf3poSSUd-aqrdHecZRKOTVMkIxOOV_dYUFMzyKYV2uQ4vNQO0aaahIA18Uef4_Btm524w1J5Bi5sDAYWzR_NVWokQMwtOSz39dGYW3TVq82woPzPFqFz-/s1600/FBIPO1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoe5SB0DzzRM-LS844WL3TEsf3poSSUd-aqrdHecZRKOTVMkIxOOV_dYUFMzyKYV2uQ4vNQO0aaahIA18Uef4_Btm524w1J5Bi5sDAYWzR_NVWokQMwtOSz39dGYW3TVq82woPzPFqFz-/s1600/FBIPO1.jpg" /></a></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Guess what’s now?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now that
Mr. Zuckerberg has become a much wealthier man, it seems that Facebook has
proven its reputation of the globally popular service, along with Google, and
Twitter, and 4shared, and will certainly have a cloudless future, at least as
far as the upcoming years are concerned. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for the
received money, the company has already claimed the focus-dimensions of further
development, which the funds will be invested to. In particular, FB is planning
to sustain and improve its positions in the mobile sector, not to mention the
general technological innovations, expected to be added soon. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Undoubtedly,
such plans for investments in this niche are 100% justified, as Facebook truly
needs to develop its mobile sector to a considerable extent. The essential
difficulty, in this respect, is related to the importance of monetizing the
company’s audience via mobile ads, which aren’t now sufficiently profitable. Thus,
the further strategy should definitely include the wider involvement of the
audience, which would help maximize the effectiveness of mobile ad campaigns.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-29181785635915923282012-05-07T07:49:00.000-07:002012-05-07T07:49:37.321-07:00Google Drive – Expectations vs. Reality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has
finally happened; Google has officially launched its syncing service, Google Drive, which
had been announced almost half a year earlier. Shortly after the release of
GDrive, as it’s frequently called now, its features have been already described
in details by a great deal of online tech portals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With such a
wide PR campaign in the media, GDrive should be not less, than a masterpiece,
as one may think, right? At least, it should include incredible advantages in
comparison with other services on the market. Yet...well, it’s doesn’t.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiHhm-ek5veWAQvUCYfJvIm5mLyi5ZSlIKo6HnSOxLcNEwyTKRlEtyi3h4ts-8rjmdN0KuPnzvzj30uB2uYAXHw_ZJMtVwsiZSYmQz35l5IhufCP6HttOeIwA-5R9QphPKESPFMz0fWiTY/s1600/07.05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiHhm-ek5veWAQvUCYfJvIm5mLyi5ZSlIKo6HnSOxLcNEwyTKRlEtyi3h4ts-8rjmdN0KuPnzvzj30uB2uYAXHw_ZJMtVwsiZSYmQz35l5IhufCP6HttOeIwA-5R9QphPKESPFMz0fWiTY/s1600/07.05.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It would be
inappropriate, or I even dare say wrong to state that Google Drive is full of drawbacks or is
inferior to what the users have been offered by other IT companies before. The
quality of the service is absolutely sufficient for usage, whereas the syncing
speed can satisfy the preferences of an average user.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover,
what is also beneficial about GDrive is the total security of your data,
supposedly guaranteed by the fact that Google is such a reputable corporation,
that it just can’t possibly fail in keeping your files safe. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same
time, there isn’t anything state-of-the art in the service, as many experts
admit. It’s good, but it doesn’t have anything special to overcome the rivals. You
only get 5GB for free, whereas the users of 4Sync still receive the whole 15GB
of free space. It enables you to upgrade for a 25GB or a 100GB or even a 1TB
package for a relatively small sum of money (only a $2,49 monthly fee for 15GB,
for instance), but yet you have got to pay to expand your storage space.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is surely
crystal clear that you can’t but face the necessity to purchase a certain
product, especially if it’s an exquisite one, but would you pay for a product,
which can be got for free?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That is the
question. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Andy </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-68417437981525980152012-05-04T04:11:00.001-07:002012-05-04T04:11:45.826-07:00Can CitizenMade Satisfy our Hunger for Uniqueness?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It goes
without saying that we all strive to be unique in our entity, tastes and
preferences, even though we may show our conformist views openly. In this
respect, the goods we purchase can also be taken as the reflection of our
unique personality. Much because of this, customized products are recognized to
be one of the most profitable niches on the retail market, including e-commerce
field as well.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nonetheless,
online purchases of customized goods turn out to be a bit more complicated
matter, much because users’ orders require the definition of numerous essential
parameters beforehand. At least, this is how the things used to be like in the
past until the brand-new service Citizen Made claimed to offer the most
convenient solution, aimed at simplifying online purchases of customized goods.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjblh4xfe1sQGiOtRhabFXu5rlw-X7G0Y_LTolVH4e5Pruer7Sy7hfSwqBIx_D7xxmtKHtLqhJRu5dUep1oCQ-cf3bI3c1gfpbLo73qNv3Kw36f3lsvHmrncP59DjcOHx55lKQW6Rfjqgh/s1600/04.051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjblh4xfe1sQGiOtRhabFXu5rlw-X7G0Y_LTolVH4e5Pruer7Sy7hfSwqBIx_D7xxmtKHtLqhJRu5dUep1oCQ-cf3bI3c1gfpbLo73qNv3Kw36f3lsvHmrncP59DjcOHx55lKQW6Rfjqgh/s1600/04.051.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What
Citizen Made provides retailers with is the special software, which allows
opting for certain characteristic features of goods, so that those will fit
users’ tastes to the fullest.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Possible Underwater Stones</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
solution, offered by Citizen Made, is, undoubtedly, beneficial for the majority
of small and mid-sized e-commerce companies, which is, by the way, free for
everyone’s usage. Supposedly, it should become a total must-have for online
retailers, right? Now wait a minute…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite the
fact, that the authors of Citizen Made state their service is free, they also
mention that you are to pay them 2% of your earnings from every purchase made.
Of course, it doesn’t look like a lot of money, yet if the goods you’re selling
are pretty much expensive, you’ll have to count the actual sum you’ll have to
give away.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover,
in spite of Citizen Made being rather helpful in making online purchases effortless,
the first and the foremost thing is attracting more clients and users, who care
more about their money security, than the convenience of e-commerce site UI.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In this
respect, if you wish to maximize your profits, you should pay attention to
placing one of the trustmarks to the site, like the one, provided by ITM
Secure, for instance, and then try Citizen Made…or not. That is your own
choice, actually.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-35865947160852825902012-04-24T05:16:00.000-07:002012-04-24T05:16:46.252-07:00Monolith Takes Further Steps to Augumented Reality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is now
definite, that augumented reality segment goes into limelight of IT world as
one of the most promising ones. Despite the fact, that the sector of the
industry is relatively young, it has, undoubtedly, beome the new passion for a
great number of reputable companies, engaged in IT.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Along with
ambitious and well-promoted Google Project Glass, which has been recently
officially presented to the open public, there has already been introduced
another player, involved in augumented reality projects. In particular, I’m
talking about a Croatian startup Monolith offering 3 serapate applications for
advertisers, namely Monolith Wardrobe, Monolith Games and Monolith Objects.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In this
respect, there can be distinguished several essential peculiarities of
products, offered by Monolith, the first and the foremost among which is
certainly, the uniqueness of the ide</span>а<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in the essence of the engine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m sure
that the majority of average users haven’t actually thought of using Kinect
elsewhere, other than in their xBox, well, Monolith developers went further. Having
built their applications on the basis of Kinect hardware, they have also added
their exclusive software solution, enabling to create a movie-like advertising
experience, achieving impressive results.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here, the
focus on advertising is, perhaps, another essential feature of Monolith
products. Obviously, it’s rather about online and mobile ads being the most popular,
effective and profitable ones at the moment, that the live ones. Relatively,
innovative online ad platforms, like Epom, for instance, are now getting trendier
and trendier today. Yet, the current tendencies doesn’t prove the death of live
advertising, so the authors of Monolith have made the right decision to
reanimate this niche of the market with their fresh and creative solutions. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition
to that, what is also special about Monolith<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>augumented reality advertising engine is that it has been founded not
in the USA, which is
frequently considered the epicenter of IT development, but in Croatia, that hasn’t yet got such
reputation.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Does the
apperance of Monolith mean that the vector of rapid IT development is moving
from the US to Europe,
considering that the already-mentioned platform Epom has been also started in
Europe as well, namely Poland?
In fact, it does more likely mean that the there will soon appear numerous
regional IT centers all around the world, all being somewhat unique in their
entity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, we’ll
see)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-17958011963613812112012-04-20T09:23:00.000-07:002012-04-20T09:23:49.680-07:00CloudFlare Widens Horizons for Sites' Improvement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do you
happen to own a site? Even if you don’t at the moment, you will, perhaps, get
one, as long as you run the business of your own or are more or less interested
in blogging, for instance.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The thing is
that the boost in development of Internet technologies and the colossal growth
of popularity of online resources force the businesses in almost every niche to
maintain their presence on the Web.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, there
you go. In case you have a business, you must have a site.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet, the
maintenance of a site, especially if you wish to make it rich and bright in the
interface and multifunctional,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a far
more complicated matter, than just the creation of one. In this respect, one of
the fresh services on the market CloudFlare happens to offer convenient tool to
protect and improve your site’s work.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the
essential aspects, which CloudFlare enables you to upgrade, is the loading time
of your site. It often happens so, that the large sites with complex graphics and
sufficient amount of ad content load rather slowly, which irritates visitors
and can even make them refuse to ever try the service again.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, as
the creators of CloudFlare state, their featured optimizer can help your site
load really fast, which is incredibly encouraging.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another
essential feature, offered by CloudFlare, is related to the site’s security. It
is, actually, one of the most painful aspects of every site’s work, which can
either benefit your reputation, or totally destroy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much because of that, the majority of
trustworthy companies pay much attention to proving their reliability and
safety to clients. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As an
example, I’ve recently found the news that 4shared established partnership with
McAfee security company to double-check all files in their database. Not bad,
or I’d say even grrrreat!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Back to
what CloudFlare can provide you with in terms of security, the service enables
you to detect hacker attacks, create block lists and trust lists for your
visitors, etc. within convenient UI. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The last but not the least…</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CloudFlare
is also recognized to provide you with traffic analytics for your site, which
is one of the most important aspects in terms of sites’ promotion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
you can stick to using Google Analytics, it won’t be a problem.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All things
considered, CloudFlare is, undoubtedly, worth trying, especially if you need to
make your site more reputable and popular among users.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-83917575120865747252012-04-09T07:33:00.000-07:002012-04-09T07:33:18.674-07:00Codecademy Opens One More Door to Coding Secrets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Have you
ever dreamt of becoming a programmer? I have never thought about such a
perspective as a child, but having grown up I realized how interesting and
profitable! it can be to be engaged in this niche. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, now
that I have already become a developer myself I have never questioned the
rightness of my former decision, but what about people, who have realized their
pure desire to learn programming already being adults? Of course, it’s never
late to learn.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet, what
if you didn’t have a chance to go study in the university at the moment?
The reasons may differ, in this respect, either you don’t have enough money to
pay for studying, or you don’t have sufficient time to attend classes because
of your full-time job. Are there any ways out to have the most convenient
learning conditions? Yes, now there are.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">People’s
opportunity to acquire knowledge of programming or share the already possessed
skills is actually the essence of a rather new service Codecademy, enabling to
learn and practice Java programming without any payment. What is essential, the
choice of language in Codecademy is absolutely justified, as it is now the most
widely-used one in the creation of high-quality sites with the best graphics
and the most intuitive UI (e.g. TechCrunch, Facebook, 4shared sites are created
with the usage of Java). </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for the
specifics of the learning courses, here’s where the benefits for users
continue. To start with, each and every exercise is provided with precise
instructions, so that you don’t spend hours perusing the same passage for 1,
000 of times. Moreover, you can practice the newly-got knowledge right at the
page, where the exercise is being explained with an ability to check FAQ’s, if
you happen to be stuck at some point. In this respect, even if you can’t find
the answer to your question, you’re free to post it in the section, so that it
can be answered a bit later. To be honest, there’re a lot of questions, which
haven’t yet been answered, but minor flaws are inevitable, I suppose.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition
to that, every section of the course is finished with a particular number of
points you receive and a sort of the award you also get. Of course, it’s not an
actual prize, but works well as motivation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And it
isn’t the end… Codecademy also enables the users to apply for becoming a beta
tester in versatile courses, no matter how much knowledge you already have.
This might be really beneficial in terms of practicing acquired skills.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a whole,
of course, Codecademy isn’t enough for you to become a superprofessional in
programming, but it is seemingly the perfect first step into the world of
coding. Not bad, ha?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay cool)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Andy</span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-15277723183037524002012-04-06T07:15:00.001-07:002012-04-06T07:15:36.387-07:00OwnCloud – Peculiarities and Perspectives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
the present-day diversity of cloud storage opportunities and the current number
of versatile syncing services have already reached truly outrageous heights. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, apparently,
the vast range of choice hasn’t scared fresh players in the field, as we have
already been introduced the new cloud storage and syncing service ownCloud,
which is, similarly aimed at making our life more convenient and enables to get
quicker access to our data and synchronize the most essential stuff between our
devices.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pros</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
benefits of ownCloud, in particular, are crystal clear. To start with, the
solution is available for all platforms in customized formats; therefore you
can select the most convenient one for you. Moreover, it is really
multifunctional and enables you to upload, download, sync and share any of your
files in a few clicks. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition
to that, the interface is rather plain in design, which proves the point that
usability is prior. The commercial solutions acquire the brighter UI
pecualities, which have been, perhaps, added to make them more attractive to
buyers. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Undoubtedly,
ownCloud isn’t perfect at all, much because it possesses one essential flaw.
The thing is that you won’t be able to use it, unless you’re a pro user: to
start working with ownCloud you should at first download .tar.bz2 package and
be aware of how to use it further. The whole range of opened possibilities can
hardly be understood by people, who aren’t used to programming, working with
mySQL databases, PHP, etc., for instance. Therefore, the community of devoted
fans of the service won’t probably include such a vast number of people, like
the famous 4Sync has got, for example. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Besides,
the free ownCloud enables you to get only 7GB of storage space, so the whole free
15GB from 4Sync are yet unbeatable. I heard the news about Dropbox offering
simpler ways to get more free space, but as it turns out, these likewise
presuppose sending invites to others. It’s really irritating, to be honest.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a whole,
what is unique about ownCloud is that it might be one more useful option at
programmers’ disposal, yet, not the best variant for common usage, of course.</span></div>
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</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-62207454907609156812012-03-29T07:41:00.000-07:002012-03-29T07:41:07.260-07:00Yoke – One More On-the-Spot Matchmaker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">It goes
without saying that people are all about socializing, and the speeding up
popularity of social networks only proves this point. Here, in addition to
online communication with our friends, colleagues or family members in Gmail,
Skype, 4shared (don’t forget about the service’s option to send PM’s to your
friends) and Facebook or Twitter, of course, most SM users tend to search for
new friends on the Web as well. In fact, some of us, who are either too shy in
real life, or don’t have enough time for meeting new people in person somewhere
at the excibition, in a gym or even in a pub, get frequently prone to signing
up for versatile matchmaking services as well. These are specifically designed
to bring the new couples, usually from all over the world, together, and often require
nothing, but your provided bio, photos and, certainly, time. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At one
point the the dating sites have evolved to the integration into social media,
like the famous and yet terribly annoying Badoo on Facebook, which is, besides,
really hard to unsubscribe from, even though you didn’t even subscribe to it at
all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As for now,
it’s about time the online matchmaking market was introduced with another
player, the more upgraded application Yoke, recently presented for FB users. Having
moved beyond the limits of an average dating service, the application does all
work for you by collecting and comparing the info about your hobbies and
interests with the facts that other users mention about themselves and makes a
suggestion, that your match and you should start communicating. Not bad, ha? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, for
those, who are interested in finding a couple online, Yoke can be considered an
exciting option to try, but in general, it is still very similar to other,
formerly-known matchmaking sites, just for lazier users, who don’t even want to
type in the requirements for a possible soulmate into a search bar. Its
significant peculiarity, at the same time, is related to the match being based
on one’s interests, rather than a person’s appearance, hair cut, or else.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What is
disappointing is that Yoke founders haven’t found it necessary to organize at
least the minimum separate site for it, except for the FB page, offering you to
start using the actual app and find out about its features during the
alpha-test. In this respect, the service gets fewer chances to become
noticeable and recognizable for users, especially if to consider its name. The
thing is that, I have already encountered separate services, called YokeApp,
Yoke Messenger, etc. which aren’t aimed at matchmaking at all. Undoubtedly, all
of the mentioned factors can’t but take a toll on the app popularity, from my
point of view.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Generally
speaking, Yoke is seemingly one more toy for people, who get bored, or may be,
wish to try something new in terms of online communication. Apparently, it can
also become promising for lonely Web surfers, who can’t (or can’t stand)))) getting
acquainted with people in person. Well, everyone deserves to be happy. </span></div>
</div>Soft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-8205810767478866702012-03-21T09:59:00.000-07:002012-03-21T09:59:52.860-07:00Google Takes Action in a File-Sharing Scandal: Reasons & CausesWith SOPA haste seeming to be now over, the file-sharing scandal, involving MegaUpload, has taken an interesting twist with Google saying its defending word in court. In fact, the IT giant has also officially claimed its position in the case with accusations of HotFile, recently made by MPAA (the abbreviation corresponds to The Motion Picture Association of America).<br />
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In particular, Google representatives claim, that any complaints towards HotFile, and even MegaUpload accordingly, are rather groundless, as both services are recognized to follow DMCA (The Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which makes their work legal, except for the links to files at MegaUpload, protected by copyright, which should, undoubtedly, be removed immediately.<br />
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What makes such a position of Google so peculiar is that the company has nothing to do with either HotFile or MegaUpload, regarding the shareholding aspect, for instance; yet, it has decided to stand out and say its word in, perhaps, the most media covered scandal recently. Nonetheless, if to take a closer look at the whole situation, Google’s actions turn out to be absolutely justified.<br />
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The most essential reason, in this respect, is the fact that the company’s own services, like YouTube, also happen to follow the mentioned DMCA, and they are generally considered 100% legal. At the same time, if HotFile is being accused of violating the law, what can prevent such companies, as MPAA, from accusing Google itself in future? That is the question.<br />
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Here, what can Google’s actions in the case with MegaUpload and Hotfile cases change? There’re, actually, several ways, in which the situation can develop. On the one hand, since Google is commonly known as one of the most influential IT companies ever, its official opinion is, obviously, highly valued. Moreover, the enterprise has a point when emphasizing the necessity of following the general laws, and DMCA is what the most reputable file hosting services, like 4shared.com, are pursuant to.<br />
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On the other hand, if the above-mentioned cases finish with guilty verdicts, can it lead to implementation of changes in DMCA itself? Hopefully, not. <br />
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But, we’ll see.<br />
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Stay cool)<br />
AndySoft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-21873703542274189302012-03-17T06:48:00.000-07:002012-03-17T06:48:38.521-07:00Twixtor: Peculiar Video Software at Users’ DisposalTo be honest, I’ve never been a YouTube fan, in terms of creating thousands of funny or interesting videos of mine on a permanent basis and submitting them for other users’ review. At the same time, I frequently find it exciting to create a sort of video-greeting for my friends abroad, who I can share it with at 4shared (TG I am provided with enough space at my 4shared account).<br />
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Much because of that, I’m really interested in versatile video camera peculiarities as much as in specifically designed video software, which enables to make my digital masterpiece truly unique.<br />
Having been for long accustomed to Sony Vegas Pro with its relatively convenient interface and a wide array of available functions, I’ve lately encountered one more service Twixtor that happens to be much more advantageous in creating slow-motion videos.<br />
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With provided motion control and management functionality, not to mention possibilities to modify motion sensitivity and frame interpolation, Twixtor appears to be a wonderful tool for everyone, who wishes to create various high-quality videos, especially with customized slow-motion and quick-motion parts.<br />
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As for Twixtor interface, it won’t be really hard to grasp, but much because of such numerous features, it’d be better to figure out their inns and outs in advance not to get confused. Fortunately, there are plenty of tutorials on the Web, explaining how this or that peculiarity of the service can be implemented to modify the already created video in the way you need to.<br />
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In a whole, I could tell you further, how useful and advantageous Twixtor surely is, but I won’t. It’s so, because, you should open it up yourself and start creating your own best videos, which would strike everyone.<br />
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Take it as a call to action;))<br />
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Stay cool<br />
AndySoft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-61685788957481604182012-03-13T09:34:00.000-07:002012-03-13T09:34:10.947-07:00Visual.ly Goes Beyond LimitsI have already written about Visual.ly in one of my previous posts, yet I find it highly essential to dedicate one more piece to the service, much because the recently introduced updates have caused large media coverage and attracted a great amount of attention from the side of users as well.<br />
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What I am actually talking about is the new available function, which enables to create your own inforgraphic, using an array of provided templates, not just upload your own pieces to the site’s database. Moreover, it’s likewise simple to either enter your own creadentials (for instance, in a Twitter-related infographic), but check the popular masterpieces, created on the basis of the same template as well.<br />
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One of the most essential advantages of the newly-offered feature is its being free for registered users, as virtually anyone interested can try his/her hand at building an certain inforgraphic. The only thing needed is to enter the required details and wait till the system generates it.<br />
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Moreover, what I really admire is the wide coverage of the great news in the media. Much due to this, even yesterday Visual.ly Twitter account was already full of users’ wishes for the best, versatile congrats and positive feedback.<br />
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At the same time, as with absolutely anything in our world, I have also encountered a few drawbacks in the feature. In particular, it took me quite a while to get the first infographic done, and the process is very vulnerable to short-term Internet coonection abrupts, at least this is what I have experienced during my alpha-test. Nonetheless, the site itself is loading in a normal way, despite the fact that a great number of users are presumably trying to open it simultaneously.<br />
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In a whole, I would also like to join the happy user community and wish Visual.ly all the best, as the company has really done a great job and put much time and efforts into developing more useful features and tools for its clients.<br />
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As for me personally, I will perhaps stay in the group of not-so-permanent users, even though I have already saved 2 of my infographics at my 4shared account. Who knows, may be I’ll find where to use those some day.<br />
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Stay cool)<br />
AndySoft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325910728852509857.post-57030726069270442072012-03-05T07:40:00.000-08:002012-03-05T07:40:01.938-08:00Highlight App in the LimelightIt goes without saying that the variety of newly-appearing apps for different mobile OS’s is so striking today, that it can amaze even the most fastidious and picky users, including the helful and beneficial tools as well as fun entertainment options. <br />
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As for the latter case with apps for entertainment, the fresh newbie, created for iPhones and iPads, Highlight is seemingly a wonderful way to get acquainted with people around. At least, that’s how the authors of the application present their masterpiece to the public.<br />
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The essence of Highlight is crystal clear: you’ll get a notification with an automatically opened user profile, in case anyone standing/sitting near by is also registered in the app database. This profile will inform you, whether you have got anything in common, so that you can figure out some interesting topics for discussion with this very person. These, in particular, might include the common file storage, like 4shared, for instance, or the similar hobbies of yours. The suggestions might also comprise your common acquaintances or friends, if those are also registered users of Highlight.<br />
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Undoubtedly, Highlight is fun to try, and you’ll be shocked how really small the city or town you live in is. At the same time, it’s a bit weird to check the strangers’ profiles, just because you happen to use the same bus with them, for example. Moreover, I highly doubt that adequate people, having a normal life (and please, don’t ask me to define “normal”))) with sufficient number of friends will be ready to open all of their interests to public access of others on the street, in the transport, in the night club, or anywhere else.<br />
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Yet, Highlight is supposingly a good way to communicate with others, in case a person is too shy or unconfident in real life, as the application might appear to be a useful way to eliminate some of the social boundaries, in this respect.<br />
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In a whole, I’m absolutely sure of the fact that Highlight will be a huge success in the nearest future, as there’re a great number of people even just on the US territory, especially adolescents, who feel lonely or just love to gossip about some of their friends with others.<br />
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On the other hand, I don’t really think there’s a good reason for more or less mature adults to start using Highlight on a permanent basis (of course, we’re all curious to take a shot and try it for once just to check how it actually works). That’s, in fact, so as there’s always a chance to talk to someone you are acquainted with in person, via phone, SMS, Skype, Facebook or 4shared messaging (I’m not sure if other file storages provide this option to their users) without any additional apps. And may strangers remain just strangers, until you meet them for real.<br />
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Stay cool)<br />
AndySoft.Prohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01509170661345843336noreply@blogger.com0