Archive for August, 2008

Toluu, the RSS sharing and suggestion service, has found some interesting trends when exploring their subscription data.  Caleb Elston, Toluu’s founder, tells me that of the 300,000+ feeds in Toluu more than 50% only have only 1 subscriber.  And that the number 1 feed has 10x the number of subscribers as the 100th most popular [...]

Approximately 34 thousand of students in the southwest Florida school district have been affected by a security hole and had their private information leaked online. All the students used Princeton Review program to study for annual assessment test. After the test preparation company switched to a new hosting provider all the information students provided the [...]

Today we have an interesting piece of news from Sosauce, a travel startup we reviewed on Profy first when it launched back in May. At the time we called Sosauce a place to have a “really fantastic super travel journal” because the site provided all the functions a user could dream of to have a [...]

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility [...]

What’s more, it is not simply Goofy, it’s actually squared Goofy! Honestly, I think even simply “Goofy” is bad enough but to name your startup Goofy squared is beyond my understanding. But no matter how unbelievable it is, I have bumped into a startup named Goofy2 today. And even though the idea and performance don’t [...]

Today NewsCred opens to the public another news aggregation service that is based on the idea of credibility of sources that you receive the news from. NewsCred positions itself as a digital newspaper collecting content from various mainstream and new media outlets. Any visitor can consume news here even without registration but if you want [...]

Bad news for multiple fans of the music mixtape startup Muxtape – RIAA has shut the service and no one even seems to have any details. What probably happened is that RIAA has realized that users uploaded and shared tons of music and invited their friends to stream it while online radio sites are supposed [...]

Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they started with 100 and eventually reached 400 publishers). While absolutely anyone with a Yahoo account could submit stories from the supported publishers and vote them up or down, it was not [...]

Google seems to need an extra power in Russia to increase and protect its market share. In Russia this power is not in money or quality of products offered – Google is looking to hire a “policy counsel” to work with governmental authorities and lobby the internet giant’s interests in Kremlin and Russian government. Description [...]