Archive for April, 2007

I know that I speak for everyone here at Profy when I say that our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims of yesterday's events at Virginia Tech. The horror of yesterday will live in the hearts and minds of the Virginia Tech community, the United States, and much of the world [...]

AllOfMP3 hasn’t fooled anyone with its ridiculously low-priced tracks. The site’s operators have claimed repeatedly that middlemen working for the recording industry were remunerated by the sales, despite repeated assertions by members of the RIAA, among other organizations, that they had yet to see any funds from the Russia-based operation. And it would only take [...]

You’ve probably been in this situation before. You’ve taken a snapshot of someplace, something, or someone, but you’re just not satisfied with the result. Your reservation about the image has nothing at all to do with the color capture, the ISO, the DEP. It’s that the photo would look quite a bit better reproduced as [...]

Nexo.com asked us to revisit their site and review their latest features being showcased at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Nexo was one of my early picks as "poster child" of early 2007 startups. Nexo combines simple website creation, group email, social networking and effective real time collaborative elements for a super user friendly service.   [...]

RobotReplay is a web analytics tool that allows you to check out what your users are doing on your website. It allows you to see the actual mouse gestures so that you can see where they spend most of their time and if they seem to get lost at any part on the page. It [...]

Still an option undesired by all major satellite and cable television corporations in the US, Al Jazeera English has been living its first months as a 24-hour news channel inside America almost solely within the computer monitors of channel subscribers. In addition to traditional broadcast methods, AJE streams both freely and at a cost to [...]

We told you about TED some time ago. In fact, you’ve probably been told by a great many sources about the renowned nonprofit and its conferences many times over. Nonetheless, it’s wonderful to get the opportunity to speak of it again, if only to mention that the producers of TED Talks have made another sizable [...]

When I was taking Peepel for a drive, CEO Stephen Kelly was kind enough to give me an invite to the private beta of Particls (called Touchstone) at the time, an application that was promising to revolutionize the way you read news feeds. I'll be honest; I was a bit skeptical. I've downloaded and subsequently [...]

You know I have come a ways as a blogger. With the help of our community here and people all over the Web, my blogging experience has been a charmed one really. I was reading some other blogs earlier and ran across a post at Mashable that was quite extraordinary. The thing is, all writers [...]