Archive for July, 2007

There's no doubt that the Web 2.0 communities springing up everywhere are creating cool new ways for niche-skills to gather and collaborate. I mean, who would have thought of an online Knitting community? But even with all of these communities out there, the “killer Web 2.0 Jobs site” has yet to be born. A lot [...]

When I saw the announcement today that Facebook had acquired Parakey, I wasn't all that surprised. Sure, the name was a surprise; Parakey has been in stealth mode for over a year now, with little known about them other than the fact that it's a company founded by two Firefox co-founders: Blake Ross and Joe [...]

I first became enamored with widgets back when Yahoo! was buying Konfabulator. Then I got into iGoogle and had quite the customized page going until my news feeds got too big for it. Now I have a Mac, and there are widgets designed for Dashboard for just about everything. But eventually, you get sick of [...]

Today, Pageflakes, the customizable web homepage service, has added a flurry of new features to their growing service. Known as the Blizzard release, the service now has social networking capabilities, themable public pages and over 240,000 possible widgets to choose from (compared with only 10,000 previously). Pageflake users now get their own profile page which [...]

Apple’s holding an iPhone Tech Day Workshop this Monday (July 23). Only Apple Developer Connection members need apply. According to the official invitation, the 1-day workshop, to be held somewhere within Infinite Loop in Cupertino, is free; you’ll only need to spend several thousand dollars for one of them golden ADC tickets for a chance [...]

Profy correspondent Cyndy Aleo-Carreira was right on when she told of how fantastic InviteShare was – in Michael Arrington’s view. So fantastic, apparently, that he’s gone ahead and made it his own. That’s right. The service that could very well turn out to be much more of a hindrance in the beta sphere than an [...]

News Corp. bought Myspace two years ago for $580 million. Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion less than a year ago. Yahoo! offered $1 billion for Facebook, but was ultimately turned down. Even the domain name Vodka.com was sold for $3 million last year. What exactly am I trying to get at here? The fact that there is [...]

If you have ever wished that there was an instant and automatic way of reminding someone else to complete a task, this may be just what you have been waiting for. Well here it is, the ultimate nagging service. Monkey On Your Back is a reminder service with a twist. It allows you to set [...]

There’s been a lot of head scratching at Yahoo! lately. It hasn’t done very well at all relative to its five-hundred-dollar-per-share nemesis, Google. Definitely not the best sales pitch to present to investors. It seemingly has spent more acquiring successes than make its own. (Google is out shopping as well, but they seem to be [...]