“Runet today”, April 9, 2012. Experts of the issue: Alexey Belyaev, Evgeny Etin
In the studio “Finam FM” - Alexey Belyaev, Head of the Internet Research Department of the Analytical Center Video International and Yevgeny Etin, General Director of the Promo Interactive agency. Together with the moderator, Maxim Spiridonov, they talk about the refusal of Wikipedia to use Google maps, the new feature that appeared on the Odnoklassniki social network, the report describing the level of development of Internet technologies in the world, Facebook’s work on its own search engine, and new service from the company "Yandex".
1. The multilingual Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has refused to use the Google Maps map service in new versions of its applications on iOS and Android platforms.
- How will the change of cards affect the end user? - Why is Wikipedia following Apple and the Foursquare service also switching to OpenStreetMap? - What are the prospects for massive non-commercial projects? ')
2. The Odnoklassniki social network has the opportunity to upload videos.
- Will this Odnoklassniki move have a serious impact on the growth and development of the network? - How will Odnoklassniki deal with the load on the server?
3. The international non-governmental organization World Economic Forum published a report on the level of information technology development in the world.
- How true is this study reflects the real state of affairs? - What prevents the development of high technologies in Russia?
4. The social network Facebook creates its own search engine.
- Why does Facebook need its own search engine? - Will Facebook be able to compete with Google in the search area?
5. Yandex Corporation announced the launch of the Yandex.Disk cloud storage service.
- Due to what "Yandex.Disk" will be able to compete with similar services? - What will become with the product of Yandex Narod?