Archive for December, 2007

Floobs is a Web 2.0 application focusing on community live television channels.  It is a finalist at Le Web 3 in Paris this week.  Currently, it is running a Finnish beta, with the English version slated to be online soon. Floobs has done a great job with site design. The colors and concept are interesting [...]

Personally I find it rather peculiar that Le Web 3 sessions started with the discussion of the "Dark Side of the Web". It looks like recently we have heard of so many issues related to all the bad things that internet communications can result in – thus the choice of the very first topic, I [...]

The LeWeb 3 conference is underway, and since we highlighted yesterday a couple of startups slated to walk the stage at the event, we figure, why not another? The next company we profile, dubbed eXo Platform, is a company with a diverse number of holdings in the Web software space. From developments in the realm [...]

You may recall back in mid-summer when Ask.com delivered a message about a new search feature it planned to launch by the end of the year. Well, here we are. December 11th. And Ask has apparently made good on its promise. The promise was to bring about a search function that enables Ask Search users [...]

The movie rental business was revolutionized by the launch of Netflix and its online monthly rental subscription service that eliminated trips to the store, late fees, as well as a lot of business for the once mega-popular Blockbuster chain of stores. It even led Blockbuster to follow suit, however unsuccessful the attempt was, just to [...]

Today we profile another startup contestant slated to present its business plan at the LeWeb 3 competition tomorrow. It?s called ZYB, and if I may say so myself, it appears at first glance to be almost completely useless. Or not. Honestly, I can?t decide. ZYB, in a nutshell, is a Web-based contact storage service. According [...]

Before Profy hits Paris tomorrow for LeWeb 3, I thought it?d be fitting to run some startups by you. Why? Well, why not? It?ll give you a feel for what to expect. You?ll familiarize yourself a bit. Or something like that. Anyway, let?s press on. First up, Semingo. It?s a social search startup. What?s social [...]

I gotta be honest. Having opened my trusty ol’ PowerBook this morning and looked the latest bits from my favorite feeds, I’ve so far seen almost nothing of immediate interest that I think worth picking apart. Some of the stuff’s recycled material. Various opinions on where the Web is headed in ’08. Tedious Facebook talk. [...]

Scoop This is a site that is trying (and failing) to be the "next Digg". A user submitted news site, complete with user profiles, article ratings and tags? Yawn. We've definitely seen this one before, and better. Taking the concept of "meta" to the extreme, this site has managed to cobble itself together using every [...]