Archive for September, 2007

Diigo.com announced their re-launch today with an information network unlike any we have seen in  scope or capability. The new Diigo network being unveiled at DEMOfall 07 creates global communities around data, information, interests and knowledge. These new communities engage and connect people around the content they collect and use. Diigo is already one of [...]

There is a new online application suite being released that offers a complete solution for the small to medium business. It's called LongJump, and it is being brought to you by the folks behind Relationals. LongJump contacted Profy and set up an interview with LongJump CEO and founder Pankaj Malviya. I will admit, I was [...]

There are a vast array of music social networks out there to choose from. The three heavy hitters in the social music site scene right now seem to be iLike, Last.FM and MOG. I didn't include iLike in this comparison, because it lacks some of the features that MOG and Last.FM offer and seems to [...]

NovelMaker is a social network for the literary set. It was brought to my attention in response to an article I wrote about LazyLibrary. In the same comment section, the owner of NovelMaker promised a site design revamp soon, although that doesn't seem to have happened yet. That means I am writing this review based [...]

It was announced yesterday that Podaddies, a San Francisco-based video advertising start-up, had recently inked a deal with Apple to develop advertising compatibility for Quicktime and iTunes. No money has been exchanged in the deal, but does this mean that future iTunes videos for download could have embedded advertisements? Currently, Apple does not provide any [...]

My good friend Dr. Riza Berkan just clued me in to a new comparative feature at hakia where users can test hakia against various search engines side-by-side. This feature has been on the hakia site for a little while but Riza and hakia have not publicized it and I thought our readers would be interested. [...]

This question has been haunting me since being posted on my Facebook fun wall by a colleague of mine. I needed to find an answer and put the nagging ghost to rest. “Is Facebook a business application?” Having previously joined Facebook myself out of curiosity and the fact like all techies I liked NSO’s (New [...]

The British government is fed up with all the complaints it’s gotten from school kids and their parents about the persistent bullying going on inside the halls of the nation’s educational institutions. Mind you, it’s not the traditional threat of the wedgie that’s got Downing Street on the offense. It’s the kind now done en [...]

Wired’s Threat Level blog recently published a news brief on a Web trend that might be of vital interest to some of you out there in Profy readership land, so I thought I’d do you a nice little favor and pass the word. The trend has taken shape in the form of the phrase: “Don’t [...]