Archive for January, 2007

Since you are now reading Profy I can tell for sure that you already have several accounts with various web services. I can bet that you blog on Blogger, share stories from your trips on 43 Places, use iLike to listen to music, share your videos on YouTube and your bookmarks on del.icio.us. I can [...]

Watch Out Spyware Developers, The Herd Might Trample You To Death! PRWEB – January 22, 2007 – Prevx announced that Yankee Group, a leader in the Anti-Malware research industry, announced that Anti-Virus is dead! Yankee Group analysts have examined the current state of signature-based and behavior based security performance. They concluded that anti-virus and anti-spyware [...]

The brainchild of a Swede and a Dane, Skype, the extraordinarily prolific and successful VOIP program that connects people all over the world via voice and video chat, is moving over to a more universally acceptable more easily consumable business model. The plan? Turning ‘Pro’. The idea of Skype Pro is to offer a bundle [...]

I discovered 103bees a month ago and decided to give it a go after reading some good reviews about it. It's an online traffic analysis tool that focuses purely on organic search engine traffic without fussing over other frivolous data (e.g. unique visitors, pageviews, ip addresses, browsers, OS). This is especially useful for anyone who's [...]

PRWeb – January 21, 2007 – SEO companies have been hit hard by Google and the search engines' increasingly complex algorithmic filters. These filters can often determine if a link is paid or not. V7N Contextual is a company that was just launched, and that claims it can supply undetectable links. V7N Contextual aims to [...]

“It is the latest Internet scare story to confront parents – online paedophiles posing as teenagers, attempting to exploit young surfers. Mindful of the public's concern, MySpace, the most popular of these sites, has confirmed it is working on software to keep parents informed about what their children are doing on the net. The project, [...]

The rise of the bastions of science education – Caltech, Stevens Institute of Technology, etc. – has brought MIT down off its industry-leading pulpit a bit, but that doesn’t mean Cambridge’s most-prized ivy (for the tech community, that is) has lost any of its swagger. It’s still a place oft cited for inventions, ideas, and [...]

A recovering attorney, Jonathan Fields is launching a revolutionary new web site called TheBeingProject.com. The web site is designed to be an online community where members gather in a trans-formative personal and social experiment! The format essentially promotes users to commune online to establish and discover a set of selfless principles and actions that will have [...]

Where are We Going? I really am so pleased to be a writer here at Profy.com. After writing 30 post or so about a variety of web 2.0 subjects, I thought I would take the time to summarize my thoughts about web 2.0 in general. So much attention and effort is put into all our [...]