a blog of Taras Filatov

Some people become curious what is Riviera project page in my blog.

I should explain this.

This is just my dream for a good vacation - to rent a car and hit the Spanish-French riviera coast with a good company some time. So if you’re interested let me know and we will gather some time and do it, all we need is:

• good company
• time
• money

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 

- nice Jersey, man!

- oy? 

Ukrainian working class celebrating St Patrick’s

photo by Minras, more in his blog:

http://minras.com/blog/ 

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.

couldn’t stop laughing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo

http://xkcd.com/342/

these comics are too funny

sent by Roman220

very timely, a funny video about the new Web 2.0 bubble:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o

Taras: - The birds shit all over my car here in Wales.
Johan: - It is a sign. You’ll get a lot of money.
Taras: - Yeah, it is a good sign. Maybe I should keep this shit.

We’ve been fishing last Saturday with my friend Roman. It’s third time we went fishing with the spinning and first time outside the city. I was lucky enough to catch a small pike!

This is my proud spinning rod, “Ugly stick”:

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.