Archive for February, 2007

The City of West Hollywood has taken a Web 2.0 approach to increasing voter turnout for their upcoming municipal elections in March; they've turned to YouTube to disseminate voting information. The five-minute video is available on both YouTube as well as on the West Hollywood website at http://www.weho.org/elections, and details virtually everything that voters would [...]

When was the last time you got paid to go to camp? I’ve never had such good fortune, but a select number of folks will, when they’ll move to Cambridge, Mass for the summer to get guidance and work on their startups. Y Combinator has opened its Funding Drive for 2007, from which selected applicants [...]

edgeio has launched edgeio Classified Boards, a customizable service for web site and blog owners to add their own classified listing boards to their sites. The concept is straightforward; just create an account, agree to the Terms of Service, and start creating your board. edgeio handles all the transaction fees via PayPal or credit card [...]

I had a chance to catch up with FeedBurner employee, Eric Olson. Eric is responsible for cultivating relationships with bloggers, blog networks, podcasters and a wide range of independent and commercial publishers, making him a prime interviewee to look at here at Profy. During our conversation, I found out a little more about the service [...]

Why didn't we think of this? High School students in the Mexican state of Chihuahua are being forced to care for screaming, hiccuping baby dolls that run on computer chips! This is an effort to bring down the state's soaring teenage pregnancy rate. According to this press release, pairs of boys and girls ages 13 [...]

Vonage, the leading VoIP-only telecommunications provider in the US, hasn’t looked well since the investor-led mutiny following the company’s disastrous IPO days. Headlines ran rampantly across the business sections of newspapers, news magazines, tech publications, and telecom industry papers about Vonage’s unwillingness to let shareholders go, even while a class action lawsuit loomed over its [...]

Consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011 compared to the $111 million spent last year according to a study released by Adams Media Research. According to the study the new surge in growth is being fueled by the introduction of hardware devices like Apple TV, a [...]

There’s a rumor going around, and Flickr's the protagonist. The gist of it is that the service and its owner (Yahoo), want to give iStockPhoto a run for their money. The biggest buzz to come out about the back room discussion about this move in waiting came by way of Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog, [...]

I found a really insightful essay in the New York Times by Daniel Coleman. The article deals with online behavior and in particular "flaming" before thinking in online communication venues. After all, we have all been exposed to rude and antisocial behavior from other people since we first ventured here. In fact, offensive messages seem to [...]