Archive for December, 2006

Dear Friends, Readers and Authors! I am extremely pleased to wish you all a very merry Christmas. I am really delighted to send you the warmest wishes on behalf of the whole Profy team. Believe me, it’s true – having you all here is actually what matters most for us and what brings pleasure to [...]

Wallhogs is a new startup that allows you to create your very own wall prints, slightly larger than your average shop sizes. At least, 52″ is bigger than anything that I’ve seen in a shop. This might not sound very Web2.0ish, but the website has a brilliantly simple Web 2.0 design and features some pretty [...]

ZCubes, probably one of the net’s first good browser in a browser websites. Why would you need one? Well, aside from being a great portal/homepage (much more useful and customizable than the Google Homepage). Needing no complicated plugins whatsoever, ZCubes is a great portal application that lets you do anything and everything you ever dreamed [...]

Start pages have been around since the days of baud modems and cheap 28-56k dial-up access. In the early 90’s, the first thing to show up after you double-clicked on those pixilated Netscape, IE, or Mosaic icons was [most likely] a portal of some kind, loading at strenuously slow rates, giving you html in all [...]

  We have already talked about the success story of Michael Arrington who is now frequently called Mr. Web 2.0 as the most powerful person in the Web 2.0 community. Today, let’s talk about another impressive personality of the community. Do you know Emily Chang? I guess it will be right if I call her [...]

Myspace is more of a social networking platform than a blog platform; while it does include options to make blog posts, the blog isn’t really front and center when someone browses your profile; it’s more of a line item, one more thing about you that’s shared with friends or with the public at large. Nevertheless, [...]

iLike is a very young project: it only turns 2 month old tomorrow. Nevertheless, it has already managed to attract investors: a successful online tickets agency TicketMaster has just bought 25% of iLike stake for US $ 13.3 million. TicketMaster president and chief operating officer Sean Moriarty said: “With our investment in iLike.com, we look [...]

I think it’s safe to say, I can consider myself a bit of a Web 2.0 geek now. I’ve been working at Profy for the past couple of months, and three weeks ago I was interviewed by the BBC who wanted to do an interview with me on BBC Radio Five Live, about my experiences blogging, [...]

Mobile content tools are growing more and more popular daily. By daily I mean that news in this field arrive actually daily. Today I am talking about PixSense – video and photo content hosting solution that has secured $5.4 million in equity funding, led by ATA Ventures and Innovacom. PixSense service was launched in March, [...]