Archive for December, 2007

In the news this week is a story about dating in the Web 2.0 age. Who knew that one day you'd be able to not only find your mate by using a box on your desk connected to a phone, cable or satellite line, you'd be able to use the box for the actual date [...]

What seemed to grow more and more apparent throughout the last few months in advance of Macworld Expo ’08 has finally been outed by big media. The Financial Times reported early yesterday (in its trademark salmon-colored pages) that Apple and 20th Century Fox, a entity held by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, inked a deal that [...]

It’s arrived! And ahead of schedule, we see. Earlier this week we received a memo sent by the CEO of Red Room, a writer-reader oriented online networking solution. The company head, Ivory Madison, conveyed some happy holiday wishes to the team here, and also mentioned that abovementioned site, which I myself spoke favorably of just [...]

Slashdot featured a little story over the Christmas holiday about my favorite on-again, off-again love affairs: Google. I was going to comment on it yesterday but thought maybe the stress of the holiday season might be getting to me, and since I'd just raked Wikimedia over the coals, I thought I'd bask in my Christmas [...]

Sure, we’re a tad too late to the punch. We probably should’ve spent a few moments earlier in the week sharing a thought or two about the Web-2.0-ification of Queen Eliza and her immediate familial subjects relatives – in advance of her holiday greeting. But better late the never, right? Okay, putting aside the fact [...]

So, how’d you spend your pseudo-religio-slash-gungho-consumero holiday break? Watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the upteenth time? Had your standard overfill of the eggnog once more? Finally put to paper a solemn vow to wreak damage upon all the world’s sweater makers? We at Profy did what we do best. We spent our precious free [...]

Oh, what the hey. We’ve come this far with our Vonage coverage. To quit before the horse is beaten to complete obliteration wouldn’t be fair to the loyal and the fully-engaged among all of you out there in readership land. So we proceed once more in relaying an update on the dispute between American VoIP [...]

Profy has been in this exciting and crowded world of Web 2.0 for over a year now and every single moment of this period has been absolutely gorgeous. We have had lots of things to report on and lots of accomplishments to celebrate. And we have also learned lots of things – things about blogging, [...]

Ah, Wikipedia. Lucky for you it's a long holiday weekend because this latest debacle may not hit many people's radar. However, it's time that you figure out that not all people are nice, not all people are honest, and sometimes, other people already know that. All you have to do is ask them. Wikipedia is [...]