Archive for November, 2006

Just in case you aren’t aware, Web 2.0 is a term coined to describe the phletora of websites that exists nowadays catering to Internet users to have a place where they can network and participate in a more interactive way. Examples of web 2.0 based are Flickr, where users can share photos, and Wikipedia, a [...]

  First, for all of you that don’t know Grouper.com yet; it is a files and video sharing site much like Mydonkey was on which you can also upload your videos and manage your friends network in the same way Youtube.com does. A few months ago Sony bought it for a modest $65 million and [...]

A new start-up in Beijing has created a service which many have been waiting for a long time – Mojiti.?? This video services will take any video presently on YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion,??Revver and a list of other familiar hosts and allow you to easily add annotations or translation to the video as an overlay.?? [...]

In a sense, using the phrase “social networking” to describe the Web 2.0 phenomenon puts blinders on most of us; the automatic tendency is to look at pure P2P plays in evaluating whether anything qualifies as 2.0. Certainly, the early success stories have been in the P2P space – Blogger, Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Digg and [...]

So we’re a clubgoer, are we? You’re hittin’ the floor regularly and you’re as diehard a trance fan as one could be. In that case, PartyStrands could be right down your alley. It is a concept that allows you to interact with the DJ and those around you via text message. Why would you want [...]

Do you like to contribute your ideas to help others to answer their unsolved questions? Then you must take a look at Lycos IQ. At a first glance, it looks very similar to Yahoo! Answers. But don’t let the initial impression mislead you. It is separated into 3 sections, which are ask, bookmarks and answer [...]

In the earlier post, I talked about the “bubble” hype, and the reality from a money perspective; here, I’ll continue with the next driver that I see transforming Web 2.0. I’ve written about the growth of online advertising, and the Long Tail element; here’s where it helps drive a stronger Web 2.0. Personally, I don’t [...]

Everyone’s wishing me a happy Thanksgiving today. Since I’m not in the US, this doesn’t actually feel like holiday here. But with so many congratulations arriving to my inbox, it really feels like our own private holiday here at Profy. Anyway I want to say I’m really happy that so many people on my contact [...]

DropBoks. Free. Practical. Easy. Speedy. Useful. They’re just some of the words I’d choose to describe the little website that allows you to have your own private hosting space on the net in seconds. Free hosting isn’t usually this good or reliable, but this, ladies and gentlemen, is one for the history books. A tiny [...]