Archive for June, 2007

I’ll be honest. Apart from the odd link on Digg, I never visit AOL. I’m sure it’s a descent place to visit as far as Web portals go. I doubt it offers any worse an experience than Yahoo! or MSN, anyhow. Today, I ventured there once again. A Reuters piece published on ZDNet highlighted some [...]

Firefox plug-ins have most to do with tweaking the browser’s performance, adding to its powers, and increasing user productivity. And lots of other things, too. Now there’s one that helps you make the most of Web-based photo albums. It’s called PicLens, and it helps you enjoy digital slideshows as they were meant to be enjoyed: [...]

Though I was apprehensive about the all hoopla around Plaxo over the past few weeks, I must admit the unveiling Monday of the new Plaxo 3.0 was stunning and exciting… at first. I started using Plaxo, oh, 2004? Earlier? Well, a VERY long time. I liked it because it gave me a very nice little [...]

Web radio stations all across the United States will be observing a "Day of Silence" today in protest of the U.S. government's intention to raise royalties to record companies and artists. The protest was organized by Kurt Hanson who publishes the Radio and Internet Newsletter. The participating stations want users to take note of what [...]

Word in the blogosphere has it that LinkedIn may follow in Facebook’s footsteps and provide APIs to developers. Clearly such a move would simply be an attempt to parallel Facebook’s growth (percentage-wise, of course). But would opening up be a good thing for LinkedIn, particularly as it is the preeminent network on the Web catering [...]

Following a weekend of little time spent on the Web – save for routine email checks – I happened across a certain array of pieces this morning waiting silently in my RSS reader for my perusal. They were all more or less published in the last 48 hours. What they highlight is, well, astonishingly impressive. [...]

We have just been informed of a major update one of Profy favorite non-Silicon Valley startups, Ziki, the website that serves two important goals: aggregating all your web content in one place and enhancing your (or your company's) visibility via search engines. We talked about Ziki when they initially launched the English-language version (originally the [...]

With the ongoing success and proliferation of Facebook and other SOCIAL NETWORKING sites, it's now time to take a look at THE NEXT STAGE of this phenomena of Social Networking. It really all began with services such as LinkedIn and MySpace where people created “walled gardens” of their associates or friends. This idea later opened [...]

It looks like automated audio blogging is growing increasingly popular these days. We reviewed Odiogo back in January, recently we have also talked about Talkr and when browsing podcasting apps on Simple Spark, the Web 2.0 categorized catalogue I was so impressed with on Thursday I have found another similar application named BlueGrind. This product [...]