February 20, 2008 at 19:00Is Google gaining partners?
Today, the "community of managers" E-xecutive held a press conference on updating the design and interface of its portal. Actually, probably many have already seen the new design, I don’t want to discuss it. Everyone has their own ideas about the beautiful :)
A little background ...
The portal was created in 2000 by Ward Howell International, which in 2006 sold the E-xecutive holding to Prof-Media. Since then, the portal was managed by a subsidiary of B2B Media Holding, which transferred it less than a month ago to the 1C-Bitrix platform.
At a press conference, the portal's management spoke about the results (160,000 registered users, actually about 60,000 of them are active) and about innovations (New platform; New design; Personal account; bookmarks; blogs, etc.).
More interesting is another ...
At a press conference, it was announced the introduction of new services from Google, as Max Azarov, product manager of Google, told the public.
To simplify the life of managers, they are going to thanks to the services: Gmail, Gtalk, Google Calendar and Google Docs. All this is working now. In the future, it is planned to add to the portal Google Maps, YouTube, Picasa and, possibly, Blogger.
In fact, this is the first case in Russia when such a large portal massively switches to Google services. We all know about the capabilities of Google Apps and API solutions of the company, but so far we are not very willing to use them. Although, the technical director of the portal praised Google for the fact that in total the introduction of all these services took only one week!
Will this event be an impetus for other Internet projects? Your comments are welcome!
A little background ...
The portal was created in 2000 by Ward Howell International, which in 2006 sold the E-xecutive holding to Prof-Media. Since then, the portal was managed by a subsidiary of B2B Media Holding, which transferred it less than a month ago to the 1C-Bitrix platform.
At a press conference, the portal's management spoke about the results (160,000 registered users, actually about 60,000 of them are active) and about innovations (New platform; New design; Personal account; bookmarks; blogs, etc.).
More interesting is another ...
At a press conference, it was announced the introduction of new services from Google, as Max Azarov, product manager of Google, told the public.
To simplify the life of managers, they are going to thanks to the services: Gmail, Gtalk, Google Calendar and Google Docs. All this is working now. In the future, it is planned to add to the portal Google Maps, YouTube, Picasa and, possibly, Blogger.
In fact, this is the first case in Russia when such a large portal massively switches to Google services. We all know about the capabilities of Google Apps and API solutions of the company, but so far we are not very willing to use them. Although, the technical director of the portal praised Google for the fact that in total the introduction of all these services took only one week!
Will this event be an impetus for other Internet projects? Your comments are welcome!