Archive for May, 2007

Pandora, the wonderful online custom radio service, will soon be treading very deep water if and when the Copyright Royalty Board of the United States Library of Congress institutes the proposed internet radio rate hike in a number of weeks. So the company has to keep ahead of the game by an extra few feet [...]

Doing good isn’t quite so easy as it is sometimes made out to be, particularly when it’s attempted on a grand, global scale. But with the advent of both high-speed broadband and social networking services comes the phenomenon that is viral Web marketing. Nonprofit organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the American Red Cross have [...]

I have had rather vast experience as freelance translator so I am particularly interested in testing all translation-related Web tools. There are some good translation and language-learning communities online (and we have already mentioned some of them). But I have never seen any good example of machine translation. I have seen funny examples, ridiculous examples, [...]

Me.dium has just been selected as one of the finalists for the CNET Webware TOP 100 Awards, and Profy could not be happier for them. Me.dium is situated in the Community category with several other excellent finalists to be voted on by YOU from May 23rd through June 11th at the Webware site. Me.dium, as most [...]

Imagine my surprise when I was reading StartupSquad one day and realized that the company behind BlogBackupOnline was right in my own backyard. I recently had the opportunity to talk to Techrigy co-founder and President Aaron Newman about Techrigy and their approach to Web 2.0. What first caught my eye was Techrigy's BlogBackupOnline, a service that [...]

On another stroll through the park of Web 2.0 I ran across our old friend Webjam. This social networking/aggregation site was one of our favorites late last year and appears to be chugging along nicely with tons of new users and additional fun and functionality. Webjam had just received their first round of funding when I [...]

This is our first in a series of profiles about people of Web 2.0, and perhaps this kind of post is the most appropriate after all. In our excursions across the blogosphere we run across some of the most interesting people, but too often we take them for granted or lose track of the fact [...]

Yapta is the site that will save you money on your next purchase of flight tickets. So often, you either hear about a deal on tickets someone else got that you missed by not checking the airline site two days before, or you buy your ticket, only to find out that had you waited a few [...]

China’s bloggers aren’t much liked by their government. Some of them don’t speak kindly of President Hu Jintao and the Communist Party, so some are censored – even jailed in a number of circumstances. And lately those in charge have made known their drive to require bloggers “use their real names” upon registration of their [...]