Why Russian technologists aren’t cool

November 6, 2007 By

Yuri Ammosov, who lives in Moscow, Russia, and works in the Russian Ministry of Economics demonstrates why Russians aren’t cool.

1. He isn’t using an iPhone.
2. He isn’t using Facebook.
3. He’s reading blogs.
4. He’s running Russian RSS-reading software.
5. He reads Engadget, B5 Media, and TechCrunch.
6. He’s running Windows Mobile.

So yesterday. So uncool.

Just kidding.

Seriously, I spent a while with Yuri today and you should watch out for him and his band of Russian entrepreneurs. They are doing very cool things and I was jealous of the feed reader and the new interface he showed me on his Windows Mobile smart phone.

Now do you understand why Google announced Open Social and Android? I sure do.

There’s a lot of Russians who are going to buy cell phones and join a social network in the next 18 months. What will THEY be running? Will they think YOU are uncool for what YOU are running?

Longer interview coming soon on ScobleShow.com.

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  • http://campuskoder.net Nikita Polyakov

    Woooooow! As a Russian, but a technologist here in US. This post and the video are some what uncomfortable to me, as it might portray the country in bad light.

    Russian Internet is moving/evolving a lot faster then US, except they don’t care so much for a share of the US online traffic, culturally the sites and communities there would make no sense or be any valuable to average US geek so naturally you would not hear about them.

    Basically, you are missing out, and you might not even know on what. But it will come out eventually.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Nikita: when I get the longer interview up I think you’ll be pleased. I was a bit sensationalistic in the headline here but there’s a lot of great things happening in Russia. My point here was that Russian technologists just might be cooler than we are here in the San Francisco area.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Nikita: when I get the longer interview up I think you’ll be pleased. I was a bit sensationalistic in the headline here but there’s a lot of great things happening in Russia. My point here was that Russian technologists just might be cooler than we are here in the San Francisco area.

  • Sergey

    Man
    you know nothing about modern Russia
    Many young fellows in Moscow have iPhones
    Russians drive “Toyota” and “Nissan” instead of “Lada” and Volga, use Google instead of Yandex, go to Italy for vacations instead of Sochi and “na derevnyu”
    Russians like technology and activly use it

  • Sergey

    Man
    you know nothing about modern Russia
    Many young fellows in Moscow have iPhones
    Russians drive “Toyota” and “Nissan” instead of “Lada” and Volga, use Google instead of Yandex, go to Italy for vacations instead of Sochi and “na derevnyu”
    Russians like technology and activly use it

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Sergey: I think you need to read my post again. Don’t stop at the headline.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Sergey: I think you need to read my post again. Don’t stop at the headline.

  • http://www.codingrobots.com/ Dmitry Chestnykh

    Sergey: I’m driving a Lada! :)

  • http://www.codingrobots.com Dmitry Chestnykh

    Sergey: I’m driving a Lada! :)

  • http://text100.typepad.com/ David McCulloch

    For those interested, the application demonstrated by Yuri Ammosov of the Russian Venture Company was developed by SPB Software House of St. Petersburg.
    http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com

  • http://text100.typepad.com David McCulloch

    For those interested, the application demonstrated by Yuri Ammosov of the Russian Venture Company was developed by SPB Software House of St. Petersburg.
    http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com

  • http://www.gusnews.net/ Paul

    With a population of 140 Millions, Russians have about 155 Millions cell phones :O)

  • http://www.gusnews.net Paul

    With a population of 140 Millions, Russians have about 155 Millions cell phones :O)

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