Social networks & apps Category: Social networks & apps

Pinme.ru

Pinterest.com considers Russian-language version – as local copycat reaches 250,000 members

By Adrien Henni, East-West Digital News / May 07, 2012

Pinterest.com, the much-hyped social network that defines itself as “an online pinboard,” announced last week its first steps in translating its service into other languages, starting with French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Pinterest is also pondering other languages, including Russian – which is mentioned between Malay and Swedish on the site’s second priority list.

Whereas the US startup was starting its crowdsourcing experiment, Pinme.ru, a Russian copycat, has announced impressive results just five months after launch: a monthly audience of 4.5 million unique users and 250,000 registered users.

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Odnoklassniki

Odnoklassniki.ru continues expansion outside Russia

By East-West Digital News / Apr 25, 2012

By the end of this year, Odnoklassniki.ru, a leading Russian social networking site, will offer localized versions to its Uzbek, Armenian, Georgian and Moldavian audiences. The news was announced yesterday by Alexander Izryadnov, an executive at the Mail.Ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian Internet group that owns the website.

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Odnoklassniki

Odnoklassniki.ru leading social network among 18+ users

By East-West Digital News / Apr 20, 2012 / 3 Comments

According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) earlier this month, Odnoklassniki.ru has become Russia’s most popular social network among Russians who are 18 year-old and over – ahead of Vkontakte.ru, whose leadership is more affirmed among teenagers.

Odnoklassniki’s reach is now estimated to be no less than 61% – compared to 51% for Vkontakte, 28% for Moi Mir and just 12% for Facebook – of a total of 57.8 million adult Internet users in Russia, FOM reported.

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Path

Milner takes part in Path’s $30 million investment round

By East-West Digital News / Apr 18, 2012 / 1 Comment

Yuri Milner, co-founder of the prominent Russian Internet fund DST, is among the investors in Path, the much-hyped ‘mobile-centric social network’ launched in 2010. The investment round, which amounts to at least $30 million, was led by venture firm Redpoint Ventures, CNet reported on Monday, with entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Mark Pincus and Jerry Murdock, as well as investment funds Kleiner Perkins, Allen & Co. and Greylock Partners.

Milner has invested in a number of US startups. Among his recent targets over the past year were iPad medical publisher DrChrono, video chat service Airtime, and Flotype, a startup that offers realtime messaging technologies for cloud and mobile applications.

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fsb

FSB seeks to drive Western intelligence out of blogosphere

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Apr 03, 2012

In a new bid to put a lid on uncensored Internet exchanges, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the post-Soviet successor of the KGB, has called for a crackdown on the “detrimental activity” of Western intelligence services in cyberspace.

Speaking last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at an interregional anti-terrorist panel of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the FSB’s deputy director, General Sergey Smirnov, spoke of a need for “adequate measures” to deal with the “cyber-pressure” that the Russian security watchdog feels from foreign intelligence “seeking to inflict losses on us.”

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Facebook Hacker Cup

Russia’s Roman Andreev wins first place and $5,000 in Facebook’s Hackers Cup

By East-West Digital News / Mar 20, 2012

Facebook’s 2nd annual Hacker Cup competition, held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, witnessed 25 of the world’s best hackers gather for an intense competition. Roman Andreev of Russia took top prize by correctly completing a problem in 1 hour and 4 minutes, one minute ahead of the second place winner. Andreev received an unusually-designed and heavy trophy made of cement, along with a check for $5,000.

The contest is an annual algorithmic programming contest that Facebook makes open to engineers from anywhere in the world.

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Yandex

Yandex implements real-time bidding technology

A press release from Yandex / Mar 19, 2012

Moscow – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) today announced that it has released a new advertising model, Real-Time Bidding (RTB), for testing by the public. The RTB technology gives advertisers an opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of the bid-based model now implemented by Yandex in display advertising.

Real-Time Bidding is an auction-based system for selling and buying ad impressions. Instead of advertisers directly bidding for impressions, the bidders are advertising systems fighting for the right to serve ads from their advertisers.

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ResumUp

Social résumé startup Resumup enrolls global companies in innovative recruitment experiment

By East-West Digital News / Mar 02, 2012

ResumUp, the infographic résumé startup that emerged from two innovation contests last December, is launching a new product, currently in beta testing, bringing some fresh air to online recruiting.

While its first product focused on infographic résumés using data from social media profiles, the St. Petersburg startup now takes an extra step, matching visual résumés with visual job vacancies.

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Social networks

Russian banks attract half a million fans on social networks

By East-West Digital News / Feb 27, 2012

The popularity of banks on social networks – especially official corporate pages on Facebook or Vkontakte, and Twitter accounts – has increased more than 50-fold over the past year, says a report from Artenom Consulting.

“One third of the country’s 100 largest banks has either established an official presence on social networks or is using new communication channels such as ICQ or Skype,” the report reveals.

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Twitter + Yandex

Twitter posts now available to Yandex users

By East-West Digital News / Feb 22, 2012

In a new move to enhance social networking searches, yesterday Yandex announced it made a deal with Twitter to make available the full feed of all public tweets – a ‘firehose’ of data – to its users.

Twitter posts will be available to Yandex users almost instantly, covering users who tweet in Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian or Kazakh, as well as top feeds in any other language, according to Yandex.

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