Following my post about cyberpunk-style satellite communications I’ve found, that we just bought a 4th satellite-technology device in our family – GPS Garmin nuvi 860T. The other 3 were – GPS-receiver for my old Nokia e61i, GPS in my car and satellite dish for Russian TV for my mother in law. many years I mostly [...]
Archive for July, 2009
new GPS Garmin nuvo 860T
July 29th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky
July 27th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Books | View Comments
As a normal male kid, I hated Russian literature lessons in the school. I just couldn’t understand why people do what do in the books. After the explanation from the teacher it was clearer and I could follow the story. Even then Dostoevsky was my favorite. May be because the book from the official program [...]
Cyberpunk in our lifes
July 27th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
One of the most distinguished features of cyberpunk is availability of new advanced technology to the poorest groups of people. In Bladerunner a medical lab could be found in the dirty slums, in Snowcrash an uneducated biker caries nuclear weapon and so on. Part of this could also be found in our lives. In Europe [...]
What does e-commerce mean
July 23rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | View Comments
Yesterday we had a visit from our European director of eCommerce. This is this the aproximate list of topics under discussion: Sales statistics and analyse agencies cooperation Reporting User interaction Other online shops Electronic distributors relationships Co-operations Illegal products Marketing After coming to the end of this list, I was wondering, what kind of job [...]
Selling Retail vs online
July 22nd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | View Comments
Lets talk about selling computer software for consumer market. Two major ways to do it are – retail and online (there are more, but lets take the big ones). Retail – in this case I mean just simply boxes in the stores. Online – obvious. The biggest difference is in the approach to your customer. [...]
URL redirection for partner links
July 21st, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | View Comments
URLs are the connections between different sites and businesses. If you plan an action with your online partner for promotion of a specified product via a specified landing page, you’ll come at the end to the URL. In the URL normally you can find all this information: what product is promoted who is the partner [...]
Long weekend near Basel
I just came back from the long weekend (4 days) near Basel. Just north of Basel lays Baden – the most known region for german white wine And this is Basel itself (they do understand what BIG cappuchino means) Soon more photo’s and not from telephone Share on Facebook
Fraud with credit cards again
July 20th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Electronic Payments | View Comments
We’ve got again a number of products, bought via our e-store with stolen credit cards. Sins we’re sending our products – activation codes electronically per email, customers can supply bogus delivery address an still receive their code via a temporary gmail account. At this moment we have the following limits on our e-store: no credit [...]
