Archive for August, 2008

Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused airwaves (“white spaces”) between broadcast TV channels for internet access and decided to call for support from general internet users. Instead of continuing to try to reach the solution that it [...]

Today Grooveshark, an innovative music discovery and monetization platform, is unveiling its new Autoplay feature today that will make music consumption even easier than it was before with this excellent service. With Gorrveshark even if you don’t have a huge library of tracks, you will soon build one – and it will contain only the [...]

I actually hoped there was nothing to sue Google for any more because everyone who wanted to must have already filed their lawsuits but today’s news proves that I was wrong. Today GraphOn announced that the company had filed a lawsuit against Google in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. GraphOn claims that [...]

Every year Blog Action Day unites bloggers around one topic to bring public attention and raise awareness of some of the most acute problems. Last year the problem discussed was environment and this year the topic chosen is poverty. All the bloggers are invited to participate on October 15th. There are several ways to participate. [...]

Last weekend I published a post about the mistakes that startups make when pitching bloggers. That post attracted quite a number of comments from startups and PR professionals and one topic some of them seemed to be very interested in was the difference between pitching by startups in a do-it-yourself manner as opposed to pitching [...]

Obviously the guys over at Twitter must have been unhappy about all the buzz surrounding cancellation of SMS notifications to all the countries but three – US, Canada, and India. Unhappy to the extent that Biz Stone decided to publish a separate post on Friday to highlight exactly what the fuss is all about. To [...]

If there is one case when a pitch I receive will invariably result in a blog post on Profy, it is when I see words “green”, “environment”, “sustainable”, “non-profit” and the likes. It is just that I feel we often tend to ignore or just give less coverage than deserved to some of the most [...]

I think we have already discussed the issue of Twitter cancelling SMS notifications to all but three countries – US, Canada, India – virtually from all possible points but we mostly focus on the users and how those users are hurt by absence of this service now. My own point here is that Twitter should [...]

Is not it funny to see some coincidences in development of various online services? Only yesterday we spoke about Twitter cancelling SMS notifications to all the countries but the US, Canana, and India. And today when browsing news from the blogs of various startups I’m subscribed to, I was surprised to bump into an announcement [...]