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My Vision Of Social Networking: Burning Problems

Vladislav Chernyshov — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:18:11 +0000

This is a first post from my series about social networking. UPDATE: Yihong Ding created post about Genome. Yihong have the gift of making complex things really easy along with the ability to recognize trends. And that makes him a great thinker and evangelist. Don’t miss his post. Now I wanna talk to you about [...]

Me on “The Word Of Mouth Manual. Part II”

Vladislav Chernyshov — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:51:28 +0000

Chris, you’ve asked me about the book, and here is my opinion. First, I like the definition of pure word of mouth: It’s the kind of evangelist eruption and wildfire opinion–spreading that happens only once or twice per decade. Suddenly, a brand that yesterday was almost invisible is recognized by every con- sumer from Boston [...]

Travelling Is Good

Vladislav Chernyshov — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:54:21 +0000

Cool guy! http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

How to learn English: Russian students experience

Vladislav Chernyshov — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:37 +0000

Click on the picture to enlarge. Here is text version. Conference Panelists Get Entertained And Educated The room was crowded with attendees’ laptops. It’s a common occurrence for the CS students who gathered for “IT. Modern applications” conference last Tuesday at NSTU. 8 panelists were talking on various topics including Software as a Service (SaaS), [...]

Social networks cloning is good

Vladislav Chernyshov — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:55:19 +0000

Here’s two thumbs. One is Facebook and another is Vkontakte, one of Russian social networks. Which one is Facebook? )))) Did you notice the difference? Facebook Vkontakte Nice, right? A lot of people would say that making clones is bad, it’s illegal, it makes no sense, etc. Well, basically that’s bullshit. I will explain. Of [...]

Venture Capitalist Fashion =)

Vladislav Chernyshov — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:20:19 +0000

Found cools T-shirts))) My favourites: and this one ))))))) Visit http://www.vcwear.com/ for more. UPDATE: If you liked these T-shirts, take a look at this website too http://startupwear.com/ These guys rock))))

Nice presentations about problems and perspectives of social networking

Vladislav Chernyshov — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:41:42 +0000

I really love these: Also see post here. Also worth paying attention to:

Word Of Mouth: Undress Now!

Vladislav Chernyshov — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:59:41 +0000

Word of mouth. Holy Grail of all marketers these days. Is this just another buzz or it’s something really going on here? What’s word of mouth? It’s the oldest and the most natural way to share something people like. It’s in human’s nature to spread the word about things they like. For instance, if you [...]

Dave Balter’s “The Word Of Mouth Manual. Part II”

Vladislav Chernyshov — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:25:20 +0000

This is a great book by Dave Balter from word of mouth marketing agency BzzAgent. And it’s free (!) You can download it right now in PDF format. Really interesting book. Definitely worth reading.

Gmail Engineers Are Right

Vladislav Chernyshov — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:51:32 +0000

Google yesterday announced Gmail Labs, and I think they are damn right. Be fast, stupid. It’s all about experimenting and iterating. Nice. I love it.