Archive for January, 2007

We were given an invitation to test drive new features prepared by Mojiti for public release last week (when it was available to press only). So we hopped in to see what the new website is like. Now the new features are available to anyone – so you can see everything for yourself. Mojiti is [...]

Quickly Calculate The Value Of 34 million Cents! Miniclip.com announced yesterday the launch of a new game based on "Arthur and the Invisibles", the highly anticipated animation movie scheduled for release in February in the UK. The new game was developed and placed by digital agency Grapevine and is called "Loot Out". Arthur fans can [...]

One of the first video blogs to hit it “big”, Channel Frederator was, from the start, the essence of what make and continues to make Web 2.0 special. Its original mission hasn’t been messed about in the least; it continues to celebrate independent artists and amateurs and their profoundly refreshing creations. I loved it since I [...]

Reuters (Switzerland) – January 27, 2007 – The Internet is set to revolutionize television within the next five years, according to Bill Gates – Chairman of Microsoft. The explosion of online video content and merging of TV and PC sets signals a new era for television.  ”I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, [...]

What Fantastic Claims Were Uttered As Rome Began Smoldering? Reuters – Amsterdam – January 26, 2007 – A consumer poll suggests Internet companies are becoming more important to people than traditional companies. Google retained its title as most influential brand and video sharing site. YouTube and Wikipedia were in the number 3 and 4 spots according [...]

"During a recent interview with Podtech's Maryam Scoble, Mary Jo Foley revealed that ZDNet has a payment scheme in place that rewards its bloggers based on the number of clicks their posts get. Foley recently left Ziff Davis to become a free agent. Her primary gig involves writing a well-read blog on Microsoft for ZDNet, which [...]

When will we know the Web 2.0 has arrived? When high fashion meets high tech! I think it may be safe to say Web 2.0 has arrived when Giorgio Armani broadcasts haute couture live on msn.com! Armani fans did not have to scramble for tickets to his latest fashion show, as the world famous Italian [...]

We here at Profy cover the world of Web 2.0, but we each come from different places. Some of us are in the east, some in the west, so we occasionally take to writing to you about things happening at home. I, for instance, often discover things going on in the tech world inside American [...]

We believe in the web. We believe in blogs and how they can influence their audience. This credo is the first thing you see on the home page of the new Web 2.0 project named booBox that is launched today. Based on this belief creators of booBox have developed a tool intended for bloggers to [...]