According to Czech Google-wannabe's press release blogging has become the next big thing on Czech Internet. One of the indication is that Blog.cz has become one of the top 10 Czech websites with 2 million unique visitors a month. 60% of Czech bloggers are under 30, most are employed and more than half visit their blog more than 20 days a month. read more »
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Czech search engine habits
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: September 17th, 2007
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Technology
The most common search engine used by Czechs is apparently the homegrown Seznam.cz followed by Google and the other two of the Czech top portals: Centrum.cz and Atlas.cz. read more »
Czech Internet 15 years old
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2007
Categories: History
• Technology
Českému Internetu je 15 let - LUPA
Československo (ČSFR) se slavnostně připojilo k celosvětovému Internetu přesně před patnácti lety, 13. února 1992. Jak to tehdy probíhalo a jak vůbec vypadal tehdejší online svět? Kolik lidí již tehdy mohlo používat například elektronickou poštu a jaké objemy dat k nám tekly ze zahraničí?
Well, more precisely, it was fifteen years ago that the first computer at a Czech university got connected to the world backbone in 1992. It took a read more »
Czech 'YouTube' to come out of Beta with Gynecology 2
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 27th, 2006
Český „YouTube“ nabízí seriál od Čtvrtníčka - iDNES.cz
Na začátku příštího roku se má oficiálně rozjet český server, který nabídne podobné služby jako populární YouTube. Vedle možnosti zveřejnit zde svá videa se případní uživatelé mohou těšit i na původní tvorbu. Svá videa zde mají podle plánu vydávat studenti filmových škol, místo bude i na zprávy či reportáže.
New Year will bring a new online service to the Czech internet to challenge YouTube called Stream.cz. And to draw new audiences it starts with an original show called Gynekologie 2 (Ob-gyn 2) which is a very funny parody of medical dramas with only slightly lascivious content. Stream.cz differs from YouTube in several important respects: it features (at least for now) very professional-looking content created for the site by film students, the quality of transmission is high, live content is planned (mostly transmissions from night clubs), concert footage, news, etc. Not all the videos require Czech, such as this short film on Brutal Ping Pong or this animated gruesome take on What was left out of fairytales. read more »
Czech Republic - Home of the Free Antivirus
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: November 9th, 2006
I never really thought about it until recently when I needed to replace my antivirus software (getting rid of the bloatware that is McAffee and Symantec's Norton) but three of the major players on the global antivirus scene come from the Czech Republic. And two of them offer free versions (meaning that the freeware antivirus all comes from Central Europe - the only other contender is Antivir from Germany). They are: read more »
Google in CR
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: August 17th, 2006
Categories: Technology
Google zaměstná v Česku až 50 osob
Ikona světového internetu, nejnavštěvovanější vyhledávač Google, otevře v České republice vývojové centrum. Podle lidí seznámených s plány americké firmy se bude jednat o centrum s až padesáti zaměstnanci, fungovat má během měsíců.
Within months google is expected to open a development center in the CR. Of course, they're late registering their domain. Google.cz leads to www.globalsearch.cz.
Czech folk superstar records a concert album for free download
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: April 29th, 2006
The folk singer and poet, Jaromír Nohavica is one of the foremost celebrities (in the truest sense of the word) in the Czech Republic. He routinely sells out large concert halls and has sold hundreds of thousands of records. Now he has decided to reward his Czech fans by recording a concert album and making it available online for free. And the main method of download is BitTorrent (although direct downloads are also possible). That's a pretty groundbreaking thing to do. read more »
30% of Czechs Use Firefox
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 18th, 2006
Categories: Technology
Firefox používá téměř třicet procent Čechů - iDNES.cz
Největší podíl 38,29% má Firefox již tradičně ve Finsku, za kterým následuje Slovinsko s 35,55% a Německo s 30,27%. Česká republika obsadila s 29,29% čtvrtou příčku.
This places Czechs in the fourth place in Firefox use in the EU trailing Finland, Slovenia and Germany. I don't know why but it makes me proud of my nation. Caveat: this only applies to home users as the measurement read more »
All Czechs to receive government-issued email address
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: August 19th, 2007
According to a new draft law, lower-court summons should be delivered via email. To that end all Czech citizens would receive a government-issued email address. This is to avoid problems with people not picking up their summons from the post office and thus delaying the proceedings. It will be possible to opt-out but then summons not collected withing 10 days will be considered delivered. read more »
Improve your Czech with Windows Vista Ultimate
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 4th, 2007
Windows Vista a lokalizační balíčky | Windows Vista Blog
Pokud si uživatel koupí anglickou kopii Windows Vista Ultimate, může do ní nainstalovat libovolné množství jazykových balíčků - mezi nimi i češtinu, která bude k dispozici pravděpodobně 1. března.
One of the best ways to learn a language is to practice it in an environment where you need it to do something specific. Such as, navigate a piece of software. Well, it appears that you can do that if you get the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista. read more »
Christmas text torrent tears records
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: December 26th, 2006
Categories: Culture
• Habits and customs
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
• Technology
Před nadílkou vedly SMS, po ní obrázkové zprávy - iDNES.cz Češi i o letošním Štědrém dnu překonali rekord v počtu odeslaných zpráv SMS. Každý ze dvou největších operátorů jich zaznamenal kolem 26 milionů. Počet hovorů zůstal na zhruba stejné úrovni, ale lidé tentokrát hovořili déle. Oproti loňsku se zvýšil i počet multimediálních zpráv MMS.
Czech mobile companies have done it again. Measuring our affection they gathered that over 70 million SMSs were sent on Christmas Eve (the most important day of Christmas in Central Europe). read more »
What the world wants to know about Czech stuff
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: October 25th, 2006
Google released an interesting tool for comparing search trends. I tried to compare searches for Czech, Czech Republic, Prague, Brno and Czechoslovakia (see here). It is interesting (if not surprising) to discover that Prague was by far the most common search term followed by Czech. Brno and Czech Republic were about the same but significantly lower. Czechoslovakia is still in there but gratifyingly not too prominent (a lot of people who knew the old name still haven't made the switch). read more »
Škoda no joke in Malaysia
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: May 14th, 2006
Categories: Culture
• Technology
This Czech hauls
For those bothered to find out, it has long been an open secret that Skoda makes fine cars even if this little fact has yet to filter through to parts of the world.A recent stint with the Octavia sedan has bolstered our perception of the 100-year-old brand.
This is one Czech that has been whisked out of a deep funk ever since Volkswagen bought it in 1991 and set about transforming it into a world-class act.
Proud beginnings, then for years the butt of jokes around the world, and now the luxury of the lower middle classes. read more »
Czechs spend record CZK 10 billion on Internet in 2005--APEK - Prague Daily Monitor
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 2nd, 2006
Categories: Technology
Czechs spend record CZK 10 billion on Internet in 2005--APEK - Prague Daily Monitor
Czechs spent an estimated roughly CZK 10 billion in Internet shops last year, about twice as much as in 2004, the Association for Electronic Commerce (APEK) said today.
Finally, the Czech internet retail sector is growing.
Czech pre-Christmas online market in rapid growth
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 8th, 2006
Categories: Culture
• Technology
Živě.cz - Předvánoční internetový trh v ČR překonal v růstu USA
Předvánoční internetový trh v ČR ukázal svůj potenciál a rostl dokonce více než ve Spojených státech. Zatímco u nás vzrostl trh v porovnání s loňským rokem o 40 %, v USA to bylo 30 %.
Not just that, at 40% it has grown faster than the US, at 30%. This sounds great but there was not nearly as much there to start with, so overall, CR is still probably behind the US. Having said that, I received a gift from my mother that she bought online. read more »
