Google Answers Returns, But Only in Russia. After closing Google Answers last year, Google launched a new version of the service, this time only in Russian (here's the English translation, powered by Google Translate). Unlike the original Google Answers, there are no hired experts and people don't have to pay to ask questions. Instead, you use your points to "pay" for a question and you earn points by posting answers or rating other people's answers. If your answer gets bad ratings, you lose points. When you start to type a question, Google shows related questions in a sidebar to prevent the problem of duplication.
You can set the number of points you are willing to offer for the right answer and the number of days the question remains active. To find a question to answer, you can perform a search, browse the most recent questions or subscribe to the labels that match your interests. The service has a pretty smart system for rewarding good answers.
If successful, Google Q&A could expand globally. . { via Google Blogoscoped } Russian Family Bistro - San Bruno. Six Apart Sells LiveJournal to Russia's SUP. Hewlett-Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the (temporarily) revived TouchPad tablet. "It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping," read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. 7 posting on the Precentral.net blog. "You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped.
"That would place the new TouchPads in consumers' hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced-price devices are not returnable, according to the email. HP originally acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system onto a variety of devices, including tablets, smartphones, desktops and laptops. Google Launches "Question and Answers" In Russia. Официальный блог - Google Россия. Anatoly Vorobey's journal. Google Russian Translator. Google Translate added a new language: Russian. Now you can translate text from English to Russian or from Russian to English.
Google uses its statistical machine translation system that won many prizes. Google News Russia has also been launched. The site aggregates 400 news sources. In a presentation earlier this year, Google recognized that Russia is fast-growing internet market and it intends to launch more products in Russian. Related:Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Gary Colet- The State of Knowledge Ma. My trip was in order to spend a fascinating 2 days in Moscow with fellow speakers Jerry Ash, Chris Collison and Richard Cross at the very first Knowledge Management conference in Russia. Attendees were all private sector organizations (now I think about it, where were the public sector?) , about half of whom also presented on their knowledge management activities.
The question I know you want answered is “what is happening in knowledge management in Russia?” Based on what I heard, the answer is “a lot”. But before you get excited, here’s the rub. Well, history tells us that the ‘90s experience in the West of software vendors rebranding their database products as ‘KM Solutions’, and not delivering the promised collaborative nirvana, did many of us a disservice. Now the good bit. I think Richard Cross is familiar with SeverStal from his Xerox Russia days and will probably write more knowledgeably about them elsewhere.
Please visit my Moscow photo collection on Flickr to share my travels. Valeriy Siutkin - Daleko. Tatu - Not gonna get u. Pachka sigaret. Kino - Viktor Tsoy - Gruppa Krov. Gruppa Krovi. DDT - Dozhd. DDT - Chto Takoe Osen. The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-G. AMBAR: Main Page.