Archive for March, 2007

High overhead and falling revenues are causing many traditional businesses to refocus their targeted sales platforms. Another example, the Borders Group is discontinuing its arrangement with Amazon.com for the sale of their books. Borders plans to close half of its Waldenbooks stores and sell off most of its 73 overseas stores. Borders reportedly lost $73.6 last [...]

Think you’ve developed your Web 2.0 startup into a company capable of handling corporate accounts? Corporations don’t think so. Forrester Research, the group consulted by default for almost anything to do with tech and business, ventured into the offices of more than 100 CIOs (Chief Information Officers) employed by companies with 500 staff or more [...]

I said a word or two about Soapbox when it went live (publicly) a little over a month ago. And it was kind of good. Not the best of the video hosts. But good. Then a rant about EULAs by John Foster on This Week In Media caught my ear some twelve days after Soapbox’s official [...]

Regional communities on the Web have been documented to a lesser degree by blogs and online news networks than more diverse stories this year. However, we all have a need for media that spans its coverage at the town, city, state and regional level too. In fact, our community needs in the physical world essentially [...]

We tend not to mention podcasts on Profy, mainly because there are other sites out there that do a fine job of that already. But here we’re going to tie in a little of this, a little of that, and some philosophizing on the benefits of video blogs to close things up. We recently received an [...]

Networks playing together? Online? Together? It can’t be. But it is. They don’t wanna hang out on YouTube, they wanna live in their own house, a web space yet to be named that will be high in professional, multi-million-dollar television programming and low in sleepy puppies and shopping cart antics. “They” are NBC Universal and [...]

On March 22nd, Yahoo! released version 4.0 of its widget software. Millions will download the upgrade. The main draw of 4.0 is its "Vista-like functionality,” whatever that means. Regardless of whether you like glitz or not, if you’re a fan of Yahoo! Widgets, the new version is good to have. Who wouldn’t want 40% more [...]

Meet one of the faces of the real Web 2.0, open source community! Swik, the SourceLabs project has put on a new dinner jacket and is ready to tango. I was surfing for news when I ran across an article on Techmambo about Swik. Ironically, a good friend IM'd my yesterday about Swik's latest project to offer users [...]

The D.I.Y. trend of Web 2.0 extends itself into the employment world with the launch 21 March of JobTonic.com, a headhunting site where companies post jobs and you can refer yourself or your friend for a job, getting the referral bonus for yourself. With referral bonuses reaching up to £1000, the hope is that employers [...]