Archive for July, 2007

According to Wikipedia, 'Web 2.0' is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Until November of 2006, I had never heard of Web 2.0 and to be blunt I was not even remotely interested in writing a, "GASP", blog.  In the spring of 2007 [...]

In today’s edition of The New York Times, a front-page article in the Business portion of the paper caught my eye immediately. It’s title is “Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web.” I felt compelled to write something on the subject because 1) many of you, being the globally-connected generation that gives a damn about the [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come across new websites that leave me quizzical and a tad annoyed. One such place is MusicExplained, a database (though one very much lacking in substance at this point) whose mission is to tell you what that lyric from that tune from that album written by that [...]

I get a good amount of email from startups, established companies and so forth asking for some face time on Profy. They’ve got news, updates to let the world know about, so naturally they give us a shout to get some placement on our pages. And I’ll be honest. I rarely do as they ask. [...]

We all knew the headlines were going to come forth. It was just a matter of time. Nigerian schoolchildren, given the power of Internet-connected personal computers through the OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child program, have finally tapped into the raunchy side of the World Wide Web. The News Agency of Nigeria stated that one [...]

"Why don't you just change it, uncle, if you feel so strongly about it?" I said with a hint of irritation. He is my uncle, all of these years and having been brought up entirely in the Silicon Valley habitat I am designed to be impatient trying to help uncle the complexities of something new [...]

CBS has apparently recently realized that in order to bring in more traffic and to increase views of its online video, it must become viral… in the sense that they must spread their video content across the web. That did, of course, play a big role in the massive growth of YouTube, which is currently the [...]

If you like to blog, visit your social network, or send personal emails at work, you may want to re-evaluate what you are doing. A new report now claims that almost 19% of companies have disciplined an employee for violating corporate policies that involve blogging and online forums. What's even worse is that 10% of [...]

In an effort to make itself known as the most thorough of privacy protectors in the realm of search today, Ask.com, generally thought to be the fourth in line to the industry throne (behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL), has announced a feature to be launched later this year which will allow users to perform “anonymous [...]