Archive for October, 2008

Today SocialMedian announces a new election website that is intended for users to easier track and discuss all the news related to the upcoming presidential elections in the US. SocialMedian is a service that aggregates news submitted by its users and adds visibility to some stories based on how popular they are among users. The [...]

It is invariably entertaining to watch Microsoft trying to ensure some online presence for itself when all such attempts look mostly like the company is the last to realize internet is actually a serious business and decides to do something to catch up when others are already heavily competing in the field. The current Microsoft’s [...]

Today we are witnessing public launch out of private beta of NuConomy Studio, a totally new web analytics platform that I myself think of as providing a very different (and better) approach to both tracking your website’s performance and understanding your visitors to produce content they enjoy the most and serve this content to the [...]

The news from Bangkok today is that Thai government is planning a large-scale campaign to block websites denouncing the much-beloved Thai monarchy, the king himself and the members of the royal family. Thailand is known for similar actions in the past when the country’s government blocked access to YouTube in 2007 because of a video [...]

Finally someone is ready to combat those endless winning notifications that we all get in dozens in our email inboxes (most often sorted out as spam with some still pretending to be valid emails). For quite a while I myself hoped that at least one of these notification of yet another million dollars I win [...]

There’s an interesting study released today by JupiterResearch that the research company conducted for BuzzLogic to find out the influence and importance of blogs nowadays. You may remember BuzzLogic as a recently launched advertising network selling ads on blogs exclusively. The primary business of BuzzLogic is in identifying where influence is in various conversations online [...]

Earlier today at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft has provided details on what we should expect from its promised cloud operating system. The offer that was revealed today was initially referred to as Red Dog or Windows Strata or Windows Cloud at different times. Today we know the real name and it is Azure. [...]

Honestly, I have been surprised to find out from a Yahoo newsletter I am subscribed to that there actually exists a world championship in Rock Paper Scissors. And while it may be difficult to figure out how it could be viewed as technology or internet news that we tend to cover here on Profy, I’ll [...]

To me the most fascinating meme of the past weekend was that about Twitter and how it could potentially be used by terrorists. The meme started on Friday after Wired contributing editor Noah Shachtman published a story on his national security blog Danger Room about a report on the potential dangers of Twitter and various [...]