Archive for November, 2007

What would happen if you created a viral social storytelling site where users could post and publish their original work as they wanted it seen, and other users could take their story in their own direction as well? Portrayl is the site to find out.  A unique social and literary experiment currently in Alpha release, [...]

Last month we brought you word that Flickr would be launching “geotag”-centric upgrades. One upgrade would be a new, more enhanced world map, enabling easier access to the world of photographs – now numbered at two-billion-plus – uploaded to the website’s servers. The photo service also claimed to be near the release of something called [...]

Let’s face facts. Most peer-to-peer services today, while certainly capable of acting as intermediaries between remote parties on the Web for legal data transfers, do provide linking services for illicit means. But some entities that rely on P2P technologies like BitTorrent are entirely valid. Vuze, a service built upon the Azureus platform, is one such [...]

You’ve seen it happen. You may have experienced it yourself one or more times in your youthful years. For an unlucky percentage of the global population, the horror can even continue into the stretch of taxpaying careerdom. “It”, or “the horror”, is, you may have already guessed, bullying. Yes, bullying. The punches, the slaps in [...]

“Utterz, be herd.” Personally, I find that phrase sounding like a bad pun that only a slow on the uptake city slicker could appreciate, and I mean bad. Would the program be any better? Utterz, in their own words, “is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all [...]

Today password Web 2.0 application PassPack said "Thank You " to its loyal customers by releasing its next upgrade early and free. We've talked about PassPack 's handy password keeping service before on Profy . So how can you take a useful password keeping service one step further?   PassPack already offered AES encryption, anti-phishing devices, [...]

Magnify.net is releasing a private beta aspect that allows anyone to produce their own Vlog. Magnify's latest addition to their video curation platform lets anyone with a video camera produce, edit and add elements to their own Vlog page. Podcamp co-founder Chris Brogan will be hosting a daily video blog called “Attention Upgrade” to illustrate [...]

Back in September, we brought you word that an Internet television series, dubbed “Quarterlife,” would debut in November. As of last week, it was released. Produced by Hollywood notables Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, Quarterlife has had just short of two weeks to make some first impressions with the public ? and the press ? [...]

If you’ve been following our coverage of developments surrounding the 700MHz auction to take place in January 2008, you’ll know that Google has made its interests in keeping a sizable portion of the wireless spectrum open very well known. (Open in the sense that essential freedoms for both the owner(s) and users (either in the [...]