Archive for November, 2008

Planzone is a new online project management software for team collaboration that seems to have some interesting advantages even their biggest competitors lack. Planzone is only recently out of beta and is now ready for everyone to enjoy a new approach to online collaboration of teams. The online software has been developed by the company [...]

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new [...]

Today, November 22, is the day of the very first live event for YouTube – YouTube Live – where performance of pop celebrities will be combined with indie rock bands and popular youtubers alike on one stage in the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The event will begin at 5 p.m. PST and for [...]

Most of the time I am a big fan of everything Russian and a loyal supporter of the majority of the companies and products originating from my country – with a few rare exceptions. But sometimes Russian internet companies offer paradoxical ideas that I simply can’t grasp even after thinking them over for a while. [...]

Over the week I have been given an opportunity to play with a private beta of a new European startup called Shout’Em. The startup is intended for anyone to create and manage a microblogging community like Twitter or Pownce or any other Twitter clone you have already seen. The team calls Shout’Em a “Ning for [...]

PayPal is one of the most important web services for freelancers – that’s what I learned long ago when working as a freelance translator and persuading my international clients to go through all the hassle involved in sending money my way by wire transfer. Of course you’d expect PayPal to be a better option available [...]

Today Google is finally rolling out its long-promised and long-tested by a large group of randomly-selected users SearchWiki functionality – this time for everyone to see and use. The functionality allows any Google user to customize search results for any search query by moving results up or down according to their relevance (as viewed by [...]

We have recently reported on a Russian company Era Vodoleya that expressed its intentions to sue Google for a huge amount of $3 billion (which is 15% of Google’s revenues) because of Google allegedly infringing a patent with its contextual advertising technology – the one that turned Google into a multi-billion company. In the post [...]

Louis Gray has just published a review of yet another Twitter tool named TweetValue intended to assign value to any Twitter account – this time the value expressed in real money. We have already seen applications calculating all types of ranks for us but TweetValue goes one step further and encourages us to know how [...]