Archive for January, 2008

Profy has finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been developing it here in Russia for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was lifted and I think I will post [...]

Back in May of last year, I was concerned that the military's newest policy was going to restrict the ability of U.S. military personnel stationed in war zones to be able to use blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. As someone so entrenched in the blog medium, I couldn't imagine being part of the [...]

Liz Strauss is one of the most influential and interesting bloggers on the Web. I had the chance to talk with her today and asked her if she would mind a post and some attention, and as I expected she was more than happy to help and answer my questions. Liz is busy like the [...]

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month. With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and [...]

I stumbled on AboutUs completely by accident one day while handling an issue with my WhoIs domain registration. When I went to the WhoIs page to follow up on a possible hack of my domain registry, I saw a small link to "AboutUs" and clicked. I was taken to a page offering to make a [...]

In a surprising change of plans, RSS company NewsGator has today announced that all of its highly-acclaimed RSS reader clients will be offered free of charge to anyone who wishes to download them. Via the official NewsGator site, web surfers will have free access to download of FeedDemon (Windows client), NetNewsWire (Mac client), mobile RSS [...]

Iceberg – A Race Car Innovation Devoured By PR Back in July I tested a fascinating enterprise business solution called Iceberg on Demand. Iceberg made a bold claim back then that said it would declare war on software. Based on my evaluation then and new feedback from Wayne Byrne, head of the development, I see [...]

Uber is a site billing itself as your hub for all things creative. Their site look combines Web 2.0 colors and a fluid drag and drop interface with rounded buttons, bars and corners for a widgetized theme. They advertise that they are your place for “drag and drop editing, multi-media blogs, big slideshows, unlimited storage, [...]

I've heard dribs and drabs of news about Spokeo over the past year, but it took a push from Guy Kawasaki's blog over the holidays to actually get me to log in and check it out. Spokeo, if you haven't heard about it, is an all-in-one aggregator for all your social networking sites, from Amazon [...]