Archive for January, 2008

In the battle for dominance in the business Intranet market, Microsoft SharePoint has clearly pulled ahead. Companies no longer want to build an Intranet themselves, and are turning to pre-packaged solutions to provide enterprise search and content management as well as manage collaboration and forms. IBM, however, still considers themselves in the game, regardless of [...]

Domain tasting – also known as domain kiting – an underhanded exploitation of a loophole in domain name registration rules that allows unscrupulous SEO ad jockeys to grab a domain name and make money off of it without paying for it. What this means for legitimate web users is that they often can't get their [...]

Playyoo just launched a public beta mobile social networking platform that allows game developers to interface with users. Playyoo's Game Streams are an easy way to discover and download games by utilizing intelligent filtering to ensure that only relevant games from within their networks. The big draw for this service is that developers can create [...]

The next spotlight in the series on Politics and Web 2.0 falls on political social network Vocal Nation. Vocal Nation is similar in concept to Essembly, but they do the political social networking gig much better. In the review of Essembly I discussed the deterioration of the system with off topic issues and skewed results. [...]

For 2008, Google has decided to make some updates to its Google Docs family, particularly its presentation application known as Presently, which happens to be the newest member having launched just last September. The first of the new features for Google Docs to become available for all users is the ability to create a folder [...]

Every news feed that I read this week has been filled with stories about the latest Digg revolt. But it was the New York Times' coverage that first grabbed my attention with their opening line "The volatile users at social news ranking site Digg.com Thursday launched a new revolt against the site." I rarely use [...]

Guest post written for Profy by Nitin Karandikar of the Software Abstractions blog. The Few, the Proud A few days ago, in its commentary section, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interview with General James T. Conway, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. In the interview, Gen. Conway muses on the way the tactics [...]

I've been following the barrage of news regarding Data Portability with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I've been a proponent of OpenID, and regularly use services like PassPack to keep track of the ridiculous number of log-ins I seem to have accumulated. At the same time, I worry about what data is essentially mine, [...]

Too often the scientific community slaves away at solutions to the world's puzzles and problems in near obscurity. Frequently isolated and limited to esoteric academic journals and trade publications, mass amounts of scientific discovery and research never reach the public's eyes. SciVee aims to change all that. This Web 2.0 application comes fast on the [...]