Archive for August, 2007

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits. Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing [...]

I read a Reuters story this morning, in which a 19-year-old by the name of LJ Tsunis was reported as saying how beneficial it would be for presidential candidates in the US running in the 2008 election to “start hanging out on Facebook.” I would argue the opposite. It would be a very bad thing [...]

Freebase is an accessible database that is editable like Wikia and Wikipedia. The startup has been in private alpha testing but just opened beta doors to the public. The service is aimed at organizing the world's data. The database has been seeded with over 2 million topics from Wikipedia and other sources and this data [...]

Trawling my selection of news feeds this morning, I came across several rather amusing bits on a spat (well, maybe not a spat, but I’ll put the word to use here anyhow) being had between VideoEgg and YouTube, in which the former is more or less accusing the latter of stealing its overlaid-ad thunder. (Yesterday, [...]

Sure, you have heard of spam, but have you heard of bacn? Not what you eat for breakfast, but what you find in your email inbox that is a legitimate email, but not really worth viewing. When you get those messages from communities you have joined that simply notify you of updates or a new [...]

More Google news today, this nugget coming from the mouthpiece of the company, Eric Schmidt. Talking in Aspen Colorado at an annual summit held by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Google CEO spoke for the principal of free speech and the need to open networks (presumably the wireless variety) to ensure advancement of communications. [...]

While it was nice to consider the remote possibility that advertisements embedded into YouTube’s videos would never make it out of the video host’s R&D department, such thoughts can now officially be put to rest. In an experiment that in all likelihood will turn into a permanent presence on the media site, the company has [...]

VeZoom is an online video search engine that has been putting in some hard work to increase its service's features and its footprint across the web. Two weeks ago, Profy featured a review of MyVeZoom, which provides users with a customizable interface to locate videos from. Now, the service is out recruit from the crowd [...]

A little over a week ago, I was writing about the mistakes that Google made when it decided to shut down its paid Google Video service. Several other blogs displayed similar feelings about the email message that customers received. Essentially, Google gave customers of the service a 5-day advance notice that the service was closing, [...]