Archive for August, 2008

ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a completely revamped tool for quizzes creation – Quiz School – with a totally new interface and a great number of new features. The company claims that it is bringing quizzes to a new level where [...]

Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presumably organized by Russia (and I have already claimed that I believe the Russian hackers really did not need any special request to get started with the DDoS attack), I thought I’d mention another [...]

Today a do it yourself 3D-design and production startup Shapeways is launched out of Philips Lifestyle incubator. Shapeways Creator Engine allows you to design and modify the products and have them manufactured for you looking exactly the way you want them to look. The site owners claim that the interface does not even require any [...]

Tools To Life is a startup (launched in January 2007 and currently in beta 2.0 stage) that is intended to provide its users with tools for self-improvement in various areas of life. Members of the site are offered professional self-improvement programs and are also able to enjoy the support of the community that should help [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while if anyone will manage to bring the conflict between Russia and Georgia into technology field and I actually hoped that no one would since it is too complicated of a problem to be discussed by the technology blogosphere – after all, the only thing that actually matter is that [...]

Until this very moment I was absolutely sure that the majority of parents will choose video games for their children over porn or alcohol. But the results of a poll published by What They Play, a website aimed at educating parents what video games their children play, have just made me change my opinion. Yes, [...]

It is always easy to criticize, especially when it comes to politics. Unfortunately too many people prefer to criticize instead of actually doing something on their own. Today we are seeing a new initiative that is intended to let the new President know what direction we believe the new Administration should take. The political social [...]

This morning a new initiative from Salon magazine debuts – it is called Open Salon and is based on a very peculiar idea to reward users that has made some bloggers doubt its future. Mathew Ingram reports today that for some time now the site has been building a hosted blogs network and recruited over [...]

There’s a very interesting post on CenterNetworks today full of righteous indignation against Alexa and the way it has recently lowered rankings for numerous blogs. In fact, I have noticed that myself for Profy but decided not to bother because we have never relied on Alexa to measure our traffic. The assumption is that Alexa [...]