Archive for December, 2006

 
On behalf of the whole Profy team I would like to wish all the Profy readers and authors a very happy New Year! This holiday is actually one of the most favourite ones in Russia and I really wish that you share with us our joy during this long-awaited and the hottest nights of the year!
I do hope the coming year will be very joyful and prosperous for you, your families and your businesses.
I also hope we will see some [...]

We’re hours away from 2007 and nary a list of predictions has cropped up here on Profy. What gives? Maybe our dubious overlords (I’m not sure what the secrecy clause in the contract said about mentioning the gods of Web 2.0 openly. Oh well.) have instituted a crack down I never received notice of. Or, maybe, just maybe, we’re trying to cover our bases by preempting a year of “Ha-ha, you were wrong!” with silence. Whatever the case maybe, I [...]

 
Rambler Media issued a universal press release late Thursday, stating that Prof-Media has obtained regulatory approval to take control of the company. Rambler Media is a diversified Russian language media and entertainment service that operates several internet entities. Rambler maintains the leading internet portal and search engine rambler.ru, broadband ISP Rambler Telecom, and various other media outlets.
PM Invest Company Limited, the holding company for Prof-Media, will obtain an additional 6% of Rambler shares in January. This will give Prof-Media 55% [...]

  
 
The battle for Web 2.0 is in full swing! Developers, e-business, cyber-geeks, and other entities are mobilizing to control this new horizon. This is a positive thing, except that the same old negative constituents are at work too. Web 2.0’s greatest enemies are the negative forces trying to corrupt the character of the new platform. Much of the discourse on the subject has been about the proliferation of old selling tactics onto innovative web 2.0 applications and innovations. We fear that great services or web sites will eventually [...]

It’s almost impossible to find everything you want on the web. Comments made by a couple of folks in response to a recent article (authored by myself) prove that theory handily. By the way, guys, thanks for the tips.
The comments to “What Makes a Start Page” highlighted the lack of a mention of two exceptional products I managed to overlook while researching for the piece: Protopage, one of the first Web 2.0-compliant sites out there; and Webwag, a lesser-known but [...]

Review: Megite RSS aggregator service. The ability to read ALL your feeds on one website everyday.
I find explaining RSS and feeds to a newbie is as confusing and frustrating as explaining what the Internet was to everyone back in 1994. What is it? How does it work? How is it different than a webpage (or back then, using CompuServe?). One of the causes of this confusion is how people read RSS feeds. Some use their browsers (Safari, Firefox and the [...]

End Of Service Announcement: Free SkypeOut calls to US and Canadian phones ends December 31, 2006.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Skype, the world leader in online telephony is about to close the door on their VERY popular promotion - Free SkypeOut calls in North America. So, if you’ve been putting off making those holiday greeting calls or best of the New Year calls to friends, family and colleagues, you better start budgeting your time over the [...]

Some months ago I caught wind of a tightly locked venture called The Venice Project, spearheaded by the individuals responsible for unleashing the most downloaded P2P file-sharing software, Kazaa, in the world, and giving millions the opportunity to snub the world’s phone companies, offering free VOIP to anyone with a PC-compatible microphone and a broadband connection. Janus Friis, Niklas Zennstrom and gang even gave Skype users in the US and Canada free calling to mobile and land-line phone subscribers for [...]

Whether you are organizing a weekly football match or are just interested to meet with people who share similar interests with you, I can say you won’t regret it if you pay Meetup a visit.
What is Meetup? Meetup helps people find others who share their interest or cause, and form lasting, influential, local community groups that regularly meet face-to-face. Meetup believes that the world will be a better place when everyone has access to a people-powered local meetup group.
But after [...]