Sputnik’s President and CEO, Vitaly M. Golomb will address the Jewish High Tech Community on September 9th. The event is called “Doing Business Globally” and will be held at Fenwick & West, 801 California St., Mountain View, CA. For all the details, please visit: www.jhtc.org

Vitaly will be speaking about his immigrant experience and his experience in cultural factors of software business in Russia and Ukraine. Also don’t miss Vivian Deutsch, Principal in Israeli-American Intercultural Advantage (IAIA) Consulting who has the first presentation of the evening.

Vitaly is flattered to have been asked to present at JHTC which in the past has hosted speakers such as: Udi Manber (Google), technologists Robert Scoble, Cindy Cohn (EFF), Chad Dickerson (Yahoo) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) and community leaders David Akov (Israeli Consul General for the Pacific Northwest), Shelley Hebert (Campus for Jewish Life) and Steve Poizner (California Insurance Commissioner).

We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog since our site relaunch, as we are busy busy with a couple of large projects. One is internal and which you will hear about lot’s later this year. The other is a major public site project for Namco, due to launch in late August. But in the midst of it all, we’ve recently launched several pretty cool projects that are worth showing off:

Hands On Photography is a San Jose studio that asked us to create an interactive Flash site based on their design concept. The site also runs a customized photo and video gallery feature, as well as, a custom ecommerce module. Lot’s of content to explore: www.handsonphoto.com

This is a complete redesign of a site we launched a couple of years ago for San Francisco Actress/Model Shoyi Cheng. Although the old site always got great reviews for its clean and easy interface, it was time for an update. This time we went for a fully animated Flash design with a custom content management system and photo/video gallery. Checkout the new site: www.shoyi.com

Gregg Lynn is one of the leading San Francisco Realtors. Gregg came to us with the goal of creating an online experience highlighting the real estate photography of his listings. With the full scale launch schedule for August, we will save the feature details for that announcement. For now checkout the temporary site and the micro-sites for each of the property listings: www.gregglynn.com

Also a couple of new online stores based on our online store system:
www.choosehottubsdirect.com
www.chooseoutdoorkitchens.com

Sputnik is going through an exciting transition right now and looking for several talented individuals to join our team.  View the job postings on our Careers page.

Through the years Sputnik has been evolving both as a business and a brand. Near the end of 2007 came a large realization for us: we are ecommerce specialists. Not to say that we aren’t proud of our identity, print, multimedia and tradeshow projects from the past. But building online stores, complicated corporate websites and web applications is where we truly shine. This year we are also launching a number of homebrew ecommerce applications. Sign up for our email newsletter or to the RSS feed of our blog.

We tell customers that most established companies evolve their brand every 12-18 months. Below is a brief evolution of our brand.