Archive for April, 2008

In honor of Earth Day today, I have been exploring what is being touted as the new eco browser: Flock Eco. That's right, the creators of Netscape and Flock have brought us an ecologically friendly version of the popular social browser. The premise is that you can help the planet while you surf the web. [...]

In picking my session for the afternoon today at Web 2.0 Expo, I was torn between three. Two were more interesting to me personally, but I thought Profy readers would be most interested in the Startup Metrics 101 session with Dave McClure and Hiten Shah. Most Web 2.0 projects (and that includes bloggers) live and [...]

My favorite part of being at a conference isn't the sessions, although you can certainly learn a lot. It's meeting people an having conversations and discovering products you may not have heard of before. By luck of where I was able to find an open outlet for my laptop today, I got to meet Angela [...]

Every conference has an application that is poised to break out. Web 2.0 Expo may already have its "It App" in Fireball. Quickly making the rounds of the Twitter back channel, Fireball is an app that combines the location-based functionality of Twitter with the location-based features of Yahoo's Fire Eagle to let you keep track [...]

In a move that is grabbing the attention of bloggers everywhere, BuzzLogic has acquired Blogrovr. BlogRovr is an OPML browser plug in that lets users see content from their favorite bloggers that is relevant to what they are reading. It is owned by a company called Activeweave (it is actually the parent company, Activeweave, that [...]

Microsoft has been attempting a hostile take over of Yahoo for a little over three months now, and Yahoo has been resisting with a variety of frantic tactics. Recently Yahoo even got together with Google on ad placement, and has approached every one from News Corp to AOL in its attempt to stay independent. This [...]

Just a reminder that our VP, Business Development, Svetlana Gladkova, one of our writers, Cyndy Aleo-Carriera and several representatives of the company, including CEO Ilya Korsun, are at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Expo this week. They are there to launch the new Profy blogging platform, one stop shopping for every blogger's needs. To meet the [...]

Google has announced the roll out of their new Quote Finder feature. This may not be huge news to everyone, but to someone who is always looking for the best quote for an article, this is a huge help. Being able to find the quote I need without having to work as hard at it [...]

Twitter has been captivating internet users for months, only growing in popularity as a microblogging platform since its launch. Lately Twitter has seen an increase in use as a platform for marketers and businesses. To Twitter purists, this is an invasion of their space. To marketers, it is just another innovative and cheap form of [...]