Archive for July, 2008

I have received an interesting piece of news about a new success for SocialVibe - a new project that is intended for its users to raise money for charities via social media. The company announces that over the 6 months since the product was launched in public beta its members reached an important milestone: $100,000 raised for various participating charitable organizations.
I have realized recently that we often talk too much about the applications, services or networks that serve [...]

Only yesterday morning, minutes before the earthquake in California, I talked to a blogging friend of mine on Skype and shared my concerns about a huge imbalance in my news consumption. The thing is that I have realized that I follow all (even minor) news related to everything in technology and web 2.0 - because of Profy, obviously. This results in my every moment online spent on some technology site or blog or some social network discussing the [...]

Here at Profy, we keep a running tab of which authors are going to write about which topics so that we don't all end up writing the same article. Most of the topics clear out rather quickly, but sometimes we end up waiting for months for a beta invite to review a new application.
I have several I've been waiting on since the beginning of the year, and like any early adopter magpie, when I see the shiny new invitation in [...]

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

The speculations about what HP, Intel and Yahoo are supposed to announce this morning started after a post on Techcrunch yesterday inviting the readers to guess what the announcement will be. It was obvious that it will be some research initiative for processing of large volumes of information but of course we could only guess.
Now we have the clarity - the three giants will be working on a joint initiative to research the potential of cloud computing. The [...]

The iPhone has developed the same culture of Twitteritis that the rest of the Web has in the two-and-a-half weeks since the launch of the App Store and the iPhone 3G . Everyone wants to build the perfect Twitter application, but with so many to choose from, which one do you choose?
Twitterific would seem to be the odds-on favorite to win. Already established on the desktop, the blue bird's move to the iPhone was both logical and expected. Not [...]

Dion Alamaer over at Ajaxian reports about a new service that is intended for any website owner to be able to detect the browser version of any visitor and suggest an upgrade if needed. PushUpTheWeb (that's the name of the service) is self-described by its creator as an "effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers". The service is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
Basically, when a user visits a site [...]

Google is a smart company - smart enough for many people to be surprised after they witness this or that move or an acquisition, surprised enough to say "Why has not anyone thought of that move earlier?" And now it seems that Google has finally realized that it sends way too much traffic from its search results pages to websites that do not contribute to Google's business. What would be the correct move for a business when faced [...]

Today the rather popular network for bloggers MyBlogLog announces redesign of their website - unfortunately, without any new features or without following the obvious pattern of FriendFeed.
In general it seems to me that the company has decided to stick to changing the design whenever they feel that some improvements are needed. But unfortunately new design does not guarantee popularity for the service. True, the new version of their community widget for blogs drew enough attention to the [...]