Archive for January, 2008

I'm always seeking out ways to share files and information with people online. I am a writer with clients all over the world, so the more accessible a solution I can find, the better it is for all concerned. Last October I was pointed in the direction of EatLime, an online file sharing site that [...]

Back in October I did a review of the AdaptiveBlu's Smartlinks widgets here on Profy. Back then I found the service to have great potential and evidently I was correct. Alex Iskold and the team at Adaptive have expanded the capability and depth of the widgets, which are even now being applied at a rather [...]

I am a firm believer in the idea of competition. I think that without competition the market leaders will freeze and never grow further. This is true for all the industries and all the fields. That is why today I am happy to announce that Profy is a media partner of the new European web [...]

Billing itself as the “Librarian of the Internet”, Finding Dulcinea aims to gather only relevant content from the Internet universe. The company launched in October 2007, and has a team of self-described “savvy Internet users” who aggregate content for the site. Instead of a regular search engine, like Google, which brings you millions of hits [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible. The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually [...]

The catalyst for this article is a site called ZetaPrints. I got an email pointing the site out to me in which the site was touted as "new", but a little research let me know ZetaPrints has been around since about 2006, and has had a recent upswing in popularity. It made me think about [...]

This week saw the launch of Wikia Search, and the revelation that Mahalo is still relying on Google for most of its traffic, using SEO strategy to drive it. And while everyone wants to be the search engine that actually succeeds in drawing users away from Google, no one really thinks that a contender has [...]

I finally decided to jump on the Vista “hate” bandwagon, so here goes: “I freaking hate Vista!” I know I am not alone in the world because I hear everyone complaining about the same things I do. We complain about incompatibility, graphic intensiveness, complicated, too different and on and on. How could so many of [...]

A few days ago I did a piece on politics in the age of social networking. I thought I'd follow up that piece with a few features on individual political social networking sites. First up is 20DC. 20DC is relatively new on the block. Its official alpha release date was in October 2007. It is [...]