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Pravda' of the RUNET ‘ russian Web 2.0 –

First; komsomolskaya Pravda” and “ sovetsky Sport” i even used to fight with my older brother over who will get “. There was nothing more pleasant than to chomp on a juicy apple and read all the latest news in one pack! Up to 10+ newspapers, all in all, ” sovetsky Sport, “ ” krasnaya Zvezda, “ ” komsomolskaya Pravda, “ ” trud, “ ” pravda, “ ” izvestiya, like “ would bring a freshly printed pack of Soviet newspapers, who worked at a large publishing house, when my mother, i waited with great anticipation for lunch time, since I was seven. I was a lucky kid.

where people could discuss anything and everything at small kitchen tables with the help of vodka and pickles… except discussing it with friends or relatives in their tiny kitchens, people still could not really speak up or relate their opinions to particular events, even then, I saw some unusually critical articles in the Soviet press, only after the genie of glasnost came out of Gorbachev's bottle. The opinions expressed were trimmed to the rules of the reigning Soviet propaganda machine, , komsomolskaya Pravda” to the more relaxed and youthful “ pravda” from the stiff and official “ despite the abundance of styles.

Creating a gigantic Russian salad of opinions and philosophies never tasted before, politicians and critics, journalists, and it quickly gained popularity from mass users, the Internet gave birth to the blogging universe, in the late 90's. Often it was hard to sift through this flow and find some real pearls of genuine truth and compelling critic. Scandals and soap operas, the newly minted democratic Russian media developed in a motley crew of yellow press, in the early Yeltsin era, alas.

In terms of new blogs and everyday notes, rULJ, yet the long-standing #2 blogging site LI is rapidly reaching its main rival. The RULJ proudly recorded 1 million registered users and blogs, 2007, on June 6. Showed that the two most popular services in the Russian Internet (RUNET) are LiveJournal's Russian language community (RULJ) and LiveInternet (LI), 1. The Russian search engine No, the latest research by Yandex. Today Russian blogging services are on their way up.

Analysts believe that by 2008 there will be at least 10 million blogs in the Russian part of the global blogosphere. However the total number of Russian blogs account for only 3% of worldwide blogs, yandex research indicates that the overall growth of the Russian blogging sphere is 74% (41% worldwide). LI's General Director German Klimenko said to CNews that the number of active blogs at LI will exceed LJ by the end of 2007. 000 visitors at RULJ, while there are 600, 000 daily visitors, the gap is still wide: LI has 170, however.

Both blog arenas cover well for their type of audiences, nevertheless. There is a great number of really interesting blogs and boards at RULJ. While the good ol' RULJ crowd is much more content with serious topics and informative content, where at LI bored teenagers spill out their fresh half-thoughts and desires, the big difference is in the quality of content and blogs. Kids are craving for company and socializing, after all. LI's audience is growing faster than that of RULJ, naturally. Is crafted for teenagers and young adults, boasting a kaleidoscope of services, lI. One thing becomes clear immediately: RULJ is definitely more mature and garners an older audience, once you check or register to both. Let's make a quick comparison between LI and RULJ.

Depressed Russians and Football Widows

These are the first three words: This user shared newly coined English language terms that hadn't yet come to Russia; presenteeism” under the topic “. Offered to discuss to the Russian blogging community, http://mi3ch.livejournal.com/1131649.html, here is what one RULJ user. Means just that; a Russian” little did I know that a new term “! That sounds funny to me; but actually associating Russians with depression –. The first Russians who you see are not smiling and look pretty gloomy, when you are entering the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, yes, well.

- people crazy about Apple Macintosh products mac nazi” “

- a woman who believes her husband is dead during football matches football widow” ”

- a person who is constantly in depression and sees the world in black a russian” ”

And there is much more of this new language in there.

160 blogs rated on the Yandex system, 189, there were 2, 2007, yandex regularly publishes its own rating of RUNET's blogs at: Blogs.yandex.ru/top. As of July 3. How about checking the most popular blogs in Russia, now?

Included: 2007, the top-4 blogs in the Russian Internet on July 4, for example,

Popular music show – star Factory” alexander Jdanov and pictures of the “ http://www.Ajdnevnik.ru – 1.

an illustrated magazine about everything in the world” “ drugoi.livejournal.ru – 2.

Russian writer http://lleo.aha.ru/dnevnik/whatis -- Blog of Leonid Kaganov, 3.

People and fashion animals, mainly various photos of glamour, aqua_snezhok.livejournal.com – 4.

2007 july 3, blogger Services Rating by Yandex,

823 records on July 3 liveInternet 51, •

439 liveJournal 48, •

609 Diary.ru 18, •

289 Blogs.Mail.Ru 12, •

935 planet 7, love ♥ •

875 Planeta.Rambler.ru 2, •

398 Beon.ru 2, •

129 jamango 2, •

2007 july 3, search in blogs by Yandex,

Steve Bloom •

Transformers the game •

Torent •

Timothy and Sobchak •

Harry Potter •

Me and my friends, me, humor, school, hockey, football, pHOTO, films, tests, creativity, tv, poems, links, sport, events, dreams, various, pondering, job, travel, psychology, nature, pranks, pOLITICS, positive, rest, about me, news about life, mood, thoughts aloud, thoughts, mUSIC, my life, my thoughts, people, love, h, lytdybr or ksnls, private, culture, books, cinema, pictures, history, internet, interesting, games, life, lJ, eurovision, friends, dIARY, children, questions, vIDEO, spring, cRAP, popular categories included (most popular are in caps letters): Anime, 2007, on July 3.

Copycats Lure Millions of Users

Social networks quickly went berserk; that secured a real million to its British owner did not spark with the skeptical Russian web-community, one Million Dollar Site” while the copycats of the “. VKontakte and Fakultet are oriented towards students. Mainly from their high schools, odnoklassniki are looking for lost contacts. MoiKrug focuses on professional community. MySpace; Privet.ru (Comby) – Dig.com; Habrahabr.ru – VKontakte.ru -- FaceBook; Fakultet.ru, Classmates.ru; Odnoklassniki.ru – here you are: MoiKrug.ru is a local version of LinkedIn. Ever wondered what the Russian copies of the famous Western blog sites have been? Luckily there is much more that you can find in the Russian blogosphere, however large RULJ and LI communities are.

000 people register on this site daily, some 12, according to VKontakte statistics. And remind you of your friends' birthdays, friends, the site also allows you to search by job contact. Allowing users to add videos to their pages, recently VKontakte announced video, for example. Users praise the site for easy-to-use design and many features similar to Facebook. Yandex and Rambler, right after such giants as Mail.ru, placed VKontakte as the Top-4 Russian site, a leading Web Statistic Portal, recently Alexa (www.alexa.com). The latest hit of the Russian Web 2.0 is VKontakte.ru.

In 2007 Habrahabr gained the Project of the Year 2007 and Best Internet Community Awards. Paste news and create personal audio and video programs, write articles, the project allows its users to add blogs. Analysts and various businesses interested in the Internet, journalists, programmers, web-designers, habrahabr's audience include people interested in the Web development and Internet economy. Became successful almost immediately, an analog of Dig.com, Habrahabr.ru, created in 2006.

There are a few interesting projects covering various social needs, apart from these sites that help to find friends and provide socializing platform.

Supplemented by catchy medical news and success stories, and its main promotion strategy will be using virus marketing via the satisfied pool of first users. The site hopes to get at least one million users, by the end of 2007. And many other things, a sick person can search among users with the same diagnosis and leave a reference about a particular doctor and hospital, among the services which differ from RULJ. Etc, recommending good clinics, finding better drugs and doctors, a social site for people with various illnesses interested in socializing with each other, ), a friend” launched DrugMe.ru (note that in Russian drug literally means “ recently E-Generator.ru supported by FINAM holding, according to Habrahabr, for example.

Letopisi.ru helped many Russian teachers involve their students in group projects. The Letopisi.ru project aimed at educating teachers in using Web 2.0 principles to create a platform for collective educational projects. In 2006 Intel and TransTelecom jointly launched a Web 2.0 project for Russian teachers, as an example. Education is another sphere that is destined to be Web-two-oed.

Cherchez La Femme' a la Russ show Me the Money: ‘

Russian men and women don't mind spending their hard earned rubles, for a chance to find your Cinderella/Jolie or a Super/Spiderman, yes. 52% of these audience are men with higher education and business owners, according to iKS-Consulting. In 2006 web-dating site owners harvested USD 34 million of profits, thus. And this market is growing 70% to 100% annually. Said that some 15 million people use internet dating sites, nikita Sherman, Mamba.ru President. Where is the money, so?

Are looking for sponsors and advertisement, like DrugMe and Eva.ru, other businesses, finally. The company owners are trying to both monetize their business and engage their customers in this business. This August the company will issue one million shares (1% of Charter Capital) and distribute among its users. Making their subscribers shareholders, fakultet literally offered each of its users their share in the project, according to CNews. Top managers of Fakultet.ru chose a different way to monetize their business, however. Selling their businesses to Yandex and Rambler respectively, that's what MoiKrug.ru and Damochka.ru did. The easiest way is selling your start-up business and merging with large Russian Web cash cows, popular and useful site, given that you created a unique. Light in the end of Web tunnel; green” yet Web 2.0 site owners also search for the “.

Are you feeling Russian now, so? Russian Web 2.0 is evolving into a very creative and living organism that brings people together and offers great business opportunities to bright entrepreneurs and programmers, one way or another.