a blog of Taras Filatov

A friend of mine has launched a website similar to ‘one million dollar home page‘.

His project is called “The richest banner“.

Well, let’s see how far does it go. I have once studied an effect of social promotion of such projects with my own project. According to my observations, it is really important to give it a very powerful boost in the beginning otherwise the effect of avalanche will not last long. Promotion is very important and its timing is important too.

This web service is very useful when you are about to organise an IT startup and the only thing you lack is imagination to create a name for it:

 http://www.iq0.com/startup.html 

Is there WP plugin allowing you to post to other blogs you have access to? I mean not MU platform when blogs are located at the same server but actually different blogs?

Would be gr8 if that’s possible. Otherwise we have to create that plugin

my company has a 1st place in Google in “web programming Ukraine” (browser language set to Russian)

I have logged into facebook which I havent’ checked for a long time and have received a storm of various inviations

as famous Russian “vkontakte.ru” is nothing but Facebook, soon the same will start happening in Russian-speaking internet

social networks will eat 70% time of those who can’t stop themselves from using useless applications

as with any other thing, there are good and bad sides about social networks and it depends on how you use them

those guys will earn a lot who create these timewasting applications such as plugin allowing you to drop snowballs into your friends or application picking random phrases about Chuck Norris

the future is bright

let’s use the social networks, maintain our contacts, have fun, but do it considerably

thanks bro :))

P.S. I might start developing applications for social networks, it seems a good business. Will try to make useful ones though.

Our company DesignForWeb is happy to announce the internet promotion and SEO pack created for businesses who are keen to get a targeted flow of buying visitors from search engines.

Meanwhile I congratulate all webmasters with another Google PR update. For me this means an increase in monthly income so this is good news.

There are people who register domain names similar in some way to existent domains or well known brand in order to get traffic from users who type the URL with a mistake

I’m happy to announce one of my websites had become well known as such a traffic interceptor has been created for it

People here http://www.idnforums.com/forums/552-looking-for-russian-idn-with-traffic.html discuss that услуги.net brings a lot of hits every day and it’s probably because of typos of the people targeting www.uslugi.net which is my Ukrainian business directory (uslugi means “services” in Russian). Indeed some people try to type the URL in Russian which results in taking them to some crazy URL (xn--c1akhxjc.net in my case). Some witty dudes take advantage of it. I think the same thing applies in every country with non-Latin alphabet. I’m personally not fond of cybersquatting despite this can bring some real money.

BTW I plan to issue an English version for this business directory so that people from other countries can find info about companies in Ukrainian market. Hope to be able to add automated translation into English for all ads however this promises to be non-trivial task as Google haven’t issued any official API for its translator service yet.

I have arrived to Ukraine yesterday and to my home town Kharkov today to find it was a right decision to go to Ukraine The food is fantastically tasty and cheap; a lot of beautiful girls on the streets; the political life is exciting - the video of our idiotic city mayor had reached top10 in the world yesterday on youTube. There are elections tomorrow (oops, today) by the way and I’m going to go and vote in the morning. Moreover, my mother makes home-made absinthe with marijuana. Nice.

Don’t feel much like drinking or partying, will probably start working from Monday. It’s great to be free anyway.

BTW I’m looking for e-commerce, web design, programming and SEO projects preferably of medium/big size, we can deal with anything, please give me a shout if you know someone.

I have just installed the Wordpress for my own blog however did it many times previously for our clients *.

Here I would try to write mostly in English however Russian posts would also be present. I’ve installed the Langswitcher plugin in order to allow my visitors to view the posts written in their preferred language. We’ll see how it works.

I have also installed:

• ald-transpose-email
• all-in-one-seo-pack
• google-sitemap-generator
• gregarious
• page2cat
• postratings
• sphere-related-content
• stats
• subscribe-to-comments
• wp-cache

Now I’m going to import some records from my Livejournal blog.

Stay in touch!

* We set up self-aggregated blogs for customers who buy websites as it’s very good for SEO - you get unique content without any effort, you just have to set up the sources where to aggregate the info from.