Novatek shares closed up 0.4 percent on the MICEX, underperforming the broader MICEX oil and gas index, which rose 1.4 percent. "We expect Novatek's share price performance in the coming months will be largely shaped by its ability to meet market expectations on production growth and gas price increases," Alexander Burgansky, a gas analyst at Renaissance Capital, said before the results were published. Both output and price "are being challenged by the increasing competitiveness of the domestic gas market.". Novatek produced 32.4 billion cubic meters of gas, a 6.3 percent increase from 2008, the company said. Liquids output rose 19 percent to 3.04 million tons. 
Share:  <span class="company">Novatek</span> shares closed up 0.4 percent on the MICEX, underperforming the broader MICEX oil and gas index, which rose 1.4 percent.<span class="sent"> "We expect <span class="company">Novatek</span>'s share price performance in the coming months will be largely shaped by its ability to meet market expectations on production growth and gas price increases," <span class="analyst">Alexander Burgansky</span>, a gas analyst at Renaissance Capital, said before the results were published.</span> Both output and price "are being challenged by the increasing competitiveness of the domestic gas market.". <span class="company">Novatek</span> produced 32.4 billion cubic meters of gas, a 6.3 percent increase from 2008, the company said. Liquids output rose 19 percent to 3.04 million tons. Tweet this 

Facebook's f8 conference is shaping up to have quite a few improvements in store for developers, and we think we've come across another one: a change to Facebook's data retention policy. Yesterday, Facebook employee Monica Keller (who left MySpace to join the company last month), took part in a conversation on Twitter that seemed to indicate that developers may no longer have to delete user data. The possible change came to light after Gnip CEO Eric Marcoullier gently chided Keller about developers being unable to store any user data, to which she responded , "come to f8!". 
Share:  <span class="company">Facebook</span>'s f8 conference is shaping up to have quite a few improvements in store for developers, and we think we've come across another one: a change to <span class="company">Facebook</span>'s data retention policy. Yesterday, <span class="company">Facebook</span> employee Monica Keller (who left MySpace to join the company last month), took part in a conversation on Twitter that seemed to indicate that developers may no longer have to delete user data. The possible change came to light after Gnip CEO Eric Marcoullier gently chided Keller about developers being unable to store any user data, to which she responded , "come to f8!". Tweet this 

Facebook's future home for big data. Dealing with the terabytes of data generated by users online and serving up relationships tied to that data quickly are forcing web scale sites like Twitter, Reddit and Facebook to investigate a variety of home built, open sourced and hardware solutions, and reject as many closed source software (such as Oracle) and specialized hardware solutions as possible. It may seem like a forgone conclusion, but the ideological and practical bias against closed source software products, as well as specialized physical hardware inherent in web scale companies, has big implications, not just for vendors like Microsoft and Oracle, if they get locked out of businesses built on the web, but for all businesses. 
Share:  <span class="company">Facebook</span>'s future home for big data. Dealing with the terabytes of data generated by users online and serving up relationships tied to that data quickly are forcing web scale sites like Twitter, Reddit and <span class="company">Facebook</span> to investigate a variety of home built, open sourced and hardware solutions, and reject as many closed source software (such as Oracle) and specialized hardware solutions as possible. It may seem like a forgone conclusion, but the ideological and practical bias against closed source software products, as well as specialized physical hardware inherent in web scale companies, has big implications, not just for vendors like Microsoft and Oracle, if they get locked out of businesses built on the web, but for all businesses. Tweet this 

At last night's "Bigg Digg Shindigg" in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.To sum it up, Adelson calls the new strategy to "enable social curation of all the world's content and the conversation around it." 
Share:  At last night's "Bigg <span class="company">Digg</span> Shindigg" in Austin, TX, <span class="company">Digg</span> CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in depth about the new <span class="company">Digg</span> and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.To sum it up, Adelson calls the new strategy to "enable social curation of all the world's content and the conversation around it." Tweet this