Archive for December, 2007

Having received an invitation to join Connectture from one of my Plaxo business contacts and ever being on the prowl for options to expand my network in the most affirmative and proficient manner possible I decided to test it out. As always, I start my evaluations of anything new with what my first impressions are. [...]

It has surely seemed as though tech pundits everywhere have been occupied with the analysis of social networks over the course of the past year almost entirely, has it not? Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and various others – in that order – that have placed themselves in webpages everywhere on an almost daily basis. It looks [...]

Have you been looking for a place to put all of your Web 2.0 information? A solution to the pressing need to keep track of all of your social networks, RSS feeds, photo streams, calendar items and more? Look no further, OnaSwarm is here. I've seen a few other Web 2.0 solutions that have claimed [...]

We first reviewed Remember The Milk here at Profy almost exactly a year ago, and thought we couldn't love it more then. How little we knew about the possibilities, however, because this week, RTM released version 1.0 of possibly the most useful item you'll ever download: a Firefox plug-in that fully integrates RTM with your [...]

We first covered Jango in late October. We published a brief review of the startup, in which we essentially laid out an admiring conclusion overall. How to sum it up? Basically, we found it to be an appealing play on the Pandora concept, one with a rather unique approach. Its feature set could also be [...]

Remember when Digg launched its Images category earlier this month? It was an addition that really couldn’t have come soon enough. The social news company got plenty of notes of appreciation, plenty of big Xs and Os for finally putting it out there for the community. At last there was a convenience place to share [...]

TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning of the website’s defeat amidst the powers of the MPAA in court. The judge presiding over the case involving the link farm “made a default ruling in favor of the MPAA…(saying) [...]

Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google have all been playing it pretty loose with their respective advertisement networks, giving Web-based gambling houses the option to market their services more or less as they wish. And now the three largest text-based ad agents on the Net are paying for it. According to the AP, all parties mentioned above [...]

Blogs can be lovely magnets for rumors and gossip and plenty of other things analogous to under-the-table chitchat. Sometimes too lovely, even. Enter, Think Secret. Wait. Actually, no. Exit, Think Secret is really as it goes today. Yes, apparently Apple has succeeded in taking down the site that irked CEO Steve Jobs a thousand-million times [...]