Archive for November, 2008

We have been talking for a while about how reliable Wikipedia is when it comes to using the popular community-edited encyclopedia and the general opinion is that while you can check a page in Wikipedia if you only want to get basic understanding of a subject, using it as a resource when you want all [...]

It looks like people can come up with absolutely unexpected ways to cope with the world financial crisis as today we hear news about a Belgium young couple selling their newborn baby online. The couple already raises one child and they explained that they decided to sell the second baby due to financial difficulties – [...]

Today we are seeing YouTube introducing the biggest change to the interface of its video player in a very long time with widescreen format for videos arriving. In fact, the size of the video player has probably been the biggest concern of the users demanding something that could let you actually watch and enjoy the [...]

Rumor of the day today is that even Google is not as immune to the recession as we used to believe with 500 people already laid off and a total of 10 thousand to be affected as well. And while the blogosphere is actively engaged in a conversation about the huge number of layoffs, everyone [...]

iKnow! is a social language learning platform that is intended to make web-based learning of foreign languages an easy and enjoyable process that will actually help users learn and remember languages.  iKnow! is developed by a Japanese company Cerego and initially started as an English learning site for Japanese people – and eventually reached the [...]

There’s a very funny story today that seems to prove to me that lack of fact checking and attention to details should not be discussed as a fault only bloggers should be accused of as it looks like even huge and reputable media organizations like CNN sometimes make mistakes that seem to be absolutely inappropriate [...]

Have you ever been in an awkward situation when you write a comment on a blog post in reply to some commenter and your comment was intended as a question or suggested some reaction from the person you addressed it to – but the reaction never arrived? I have certainly been in such situations pretty [...]

This is our traditional post to thank the great companies that have chosen to support Profy by becoming our sponsors. I am very glad there are companies willing to support bloggers and our voices and opinions. I am also very grateful to Profy readers who often send me emails and direct messages via social networks [...]

There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed – with no one knowing about them through all this time. Facebook reportedly initiated [...]