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Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Paul — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:12 -0000

With a population of 140 Millions, Russians have about 155 Millions cell phones :O)

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

David McCulloch — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:42:32 -0000

For those interested, the application demonstrated by Yuri Ammosov of the Russian Venture Company was developed by SPB Software House of St. Petersburg.
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Dmitry Chestnykh — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:24:17 -0000

Sergey: I'm driving a Lada! :)

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Robert Scoble — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:31:26 -0000

Sergey: I think you need to read my post again. Don't stop at the headline.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Sergey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:27:22 -0000

Man
you know nothing about modern Russia
Many young fellows in Moscow have iPhones
Russians drive "Toyota" and "Nissan" instead of "Lada" and Volga, use Google instead of Yandex, go to Italy for vacations instead of Sochi and "na derevnyu"
Russians like technology and activly use it

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Robert Scoble — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:14:19 -0000

Nikita: when I get the longer interview up I think you'll be pleased. I was a bit sensationalistic in the headline here but there's a lot of great things happening in Russia. My point here was that Russian technologists just might be cooler than we are here in the San Francisco area.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Nikita Polyakov — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:11:23 -0000

Woooooow! As a Russian, but a technologist here in US. This post and the video are some what uncomfortable to me, as it might portray the country in bad light.

Russian Internet is moving/evolving a lot faster then US, except they don't care so much for a share of the US online traffic, culturally the sites and communities there would make no sense or be any valuable to average US geek so naturally you would not hear about them.

Basically, you are missing out, and you might not even know on what. But it will come out eventually.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Dmitry Chestnykh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:36:24 -0000

jeremy: Yeah, vkontakte.ru is a Facebook knock off :(

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Dmitry Chestnykh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:33:05 -0000

Robert: Hey, it was a joke! :) Maybe a stupid one... (Aren't we, Russians, famous for drinking? :))

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Jake Ludington — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:27:02 -0000

Robert: Re your post @ 23 at Dmitry, instead of blasting him, put him on camera. He's in Moscow and a Russian native making software, which might be exactly what you're looking for.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Robert Scoble — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:59:17 -0000

Dmitry: he wasn't drunk. I really hate it when people say shit like that. You try to get on a camera when someone's asking you stupid questions in a language that you didn't grow up with.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Robert Scoble — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:46:06 -0000

I laugh because I enjoy life and cool tech makes me happy. If you don't get that you might not enjoy my show.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

jeremy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:21:21 -0000

Russians have their own social networking sites, like vkontakte.ru and the mamba system, and use them with much more frequency than google

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Yakov — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:45:42 -0000

Rob, I suggest to read my posts on Blognation Russia at http://ru.blognation.com
to get a feeling what is going on in Russia in Internet and mobile markets.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Dmitry Chestnykh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:38:48 -0000

Alan Jones: Nah, he was not confused, he was drunk ;)

BTW, some people have unlocked iPhones here. You can buy one for ~$1300, fully unlocked and with Russian virtual keyboard.

Facebook? Yes, people who speak English use it. For others, there are like 3 or 4 social networks from major portals here.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Russian technologist — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:46:44 -0000

Actually, there is no OFFICIAL iPhone in Russia. Only unlocked ;) So, huyushki, my Apple fanboys

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

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Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

krsnakhandelwal — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:44:24 -0000

May be due to the fear of unknown that afflicted many an early generations of Russians because the whole scene was never avaialable for them to see.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Timothy Post — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:36:25 -0000

Robert:

As an American living in Krasnodar, Russia I can tell you that the iPhone is the must have tech toy amongst young Russians today. I am going to the States next week and already 6 of my Russian friends have asked me to buy an iPhone for them.

Regarding Facebook, it's catching on. I had a guy living in Moscow contact me through Facebook yesterday asking questions about Krasnodar.

The "thing" to remember about Russian technology can be captured by the US Representative's comments last week about his visit to the Russian radar station in Azerbijian.

He noted that while the hardware in the station may have still been vacuum tubes the end results were still very impressive.

Bottom-line, the hardware and software in Russian is still a little bit behind the West (perhaps not for much longer considering the oil revenues with oil at $100 per barrel) but the "wetware" (i.e. brainpower) of the Russians is unmatched.

There's a saying which goes something like, "If you have a tough software problem. Give it to the Americans. If you have really difficult software problem, give it to the Indians. But if you have an impossible software problem, give it to the Russians."

TGP

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Alan Jones — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:33:03 -0000

I don't understand why you're always guffawing in your interviews. There's rarely anything funny happening. the guy being interviewed looks confused as well.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Alex — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:03:04 -0000

(1)He isn’t using an iPhone.
(2) He isn’t using Facebook.
(2.5) He isn't on Woozyfly.
(3) He’s reading blogs.
(4) He’s running Russian RSS-reading software.
(5) He reads Engadget, B5 Media, and TechCrunch.
(6) He’s running Windows Mobile.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

jeremy wright — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:31:35 -0000

Unsubscribe ;-)

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Kyle — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:43:58 -0000

Doesn't a lot of "internet" crime originate from Russia or former Soviet block countries? I ask because, if there is a skew there, it would be very interesting to know if the economic conditions of those countries impacted a brain drain on development of any of the aformentioned web media in favor of development towards black market products/profits? Maybe their best engineers are too busy developing phishing programs, etc.?

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Robert Scoble — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:42:14 -0000

Michael: they still are leading technologists. I cover that in my interview which will be up in a couple of weeks.

Re: Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

Scope — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:32:24 -0000

Nay... Russian tech is one of its kind...
Actually... I might be going to Moscow in a year's time.
Maybe not.
Russians never commercialise their tech the way IPOD does. Their techs are mainly for political use.

Scope.