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With Love From Siberia: Office Pictures

Published on April 4, 2008 in ASSISTA, Bido, Business, General and Recall Media Group. 4 Comments

Few pictures Jeff sent over, from one of our offices in Siberia. Most of the folks here are largely responsible for much of our development projects, from Assista, various RMG projects, Flowchart.com, domain related projects, and more. Darren, Jeff, myself and others within RMG all feel we have completely lucked out on having such great minds in our operations and for that, we’re all grateful.

Sahar

Alex

Ilya

Vera

Oleg

Mihail

Natalia

Dmitry

Dmitry (2)

Boris

Andrey

Andrey (2)

Alexander

Office room 1

Office room 2

Office room 3

Office room 4

Office room 5

ASSISTA Gets New User Interface, And More.

Published on March 12, 2008 in ASSISTA. 1 Comment

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New user interface is out which deals with some design issues we felt needed some work. We also added a WIKI option to all questions in the index. ASSISTA is still runs as a R&D project and not as a true business. We hope to get to execution sometime early next year.

Feedback most welcome.

Cheers

Sahar

In The Works: ASSISTA New Look

Published on February 12, 2008 in ASSISTA. 1 Comment

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Now that we took ASSISTA live, it is time to polish the site, upgrade functions. For next 10 months we plan to do mostly that. Sometime next year, we’ll bring the site to the next level - execution.

Image above is work in progress of new look/feel. In terms of functionalities, we are making community indicators better, adding a WIKI module to each question in the index, and also adding unique tagging functions for content creators.

Feedback most welcome!

Sahar

Today’s Search Is A Paradigm Addiction

Published on February 4, 2008 in ASSISTA, Business and Search Technology. 0 Comments

What is a Paradigm Addiction?

What occurs when a paradigm and its most ardent supporters are addicted to the paradigm to the point where they lose the realization that they are even in a paradigm at all? Ardent paradigm supporters have equated paradigm survival with their own personal survival, and will manipulate and control a society in order to prevent any social or cultural advancement out of the existing paradigm, ignoring or suppressing public knowledge of anomalies, equating perception of anomalies to “personal abnormality” in order to intimidate populations to remain within the status quo control paradigm. Addiction to a paradigm results in either paradigm death or death of those who maintain the paradigm.

While playing with ASSISTA, visiting a number of pages, I came across the above quote. I believe The words here describe exactly the current Search industry, where Search is taken for granted, where nothing else exist. Couple of years ago I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read in some reputable publications that “Search is solved!”. It became to me even more clear we’re in a Paradigm Addiction mode when Microsoft, a company with some of the smartest developers on earth, believe the only way to move forward against Google is to buy Yahoo, a technology dinosaur.

What happened to innovation? What happened to thinking of Search in different ways? Is today’s Search satisfactory? Can search results be personalized? Can search results be better organized? How can Geo targeting help you further find relevant information? What about what you searched for five minutes ago, is it of the same importance of information you worked with five years ago, and should that information be part of the equation in present search activity? How about Global results, live translations of relevant material? And cycles? Can search take sales cycle in consideration when searching for a product? The list of questions go on and there’s no doubt I don’t know all, never will. What I do know though, when everyone accepts the status que, opportunities arise.

An example of a paradigm shift during today’s paradigm addiction is Wikipedia. In an age of algorithm and control Wikipedia defied the odds by doing the exact opposite, and winning.

Why is this important? I would like to encourage others to think of what else is possible. There’s no doubt in my mind future Search is not anything close to today’s Search. As Search is the biggest game in town today, solving these issues, even a small part in the whole equation, can change the world for the better. And wouldn’t you want to be a part of that? I know I would.

Have a great day!

Sahar

Office Visit In Novosibirsk, Siberia

Published on January 25, 2008 in ASSISTA, Domain Names, General and Recall Media Group. 5 Comments

As some of you know we have many projects in the works, from ASSISTA, to NDP (Niche Directory Platform), to auction systems, Flowchart.com, lead generation software, domain management tools, and other technologies. None of these would be possible without the amazing people which work with us, our Siberian team.

Why Siberia? We’ve been there since 03 doing first domain scripts and later full scale development projects. A little more about where our offices in Siberia are, from CNN.

Russia’s software exports total $1.8 billion annually; the country is the third-largest software-outsourcing destination in the world, after China and India. “Inside Intel we have an expression,” says Steve Chase, president of Intel Russia. “If you have something tough, give it to the Americans. If you have something difficult, give it to the Indians. If you have something impossible, give it to the Russians.“

Below are few pictures of some of our team members. To each and every one of you.. THANKS for working with us, you guys (and gals) are G R E A T !

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