Archive for November, 2008

Today at Adobe MAX 2008 conference Sprout debuts a totally new idea that is very much likely to change the way rich media ads, widgets, and various social media sites are evaluated and monetized based on their performance. The thing is that the company is launching Google Analytics tracking functionality for Adobe Flash. The company’s [...]

Of course the usual race of the two largest social networks in the world – Facebook and MySpace – is always a fascinating thing to watch. While Facebook is already bigger than MySpace worldwide, it still seems (or seemed – depending on the metrics you use) to be a little behind MySpace in one particularly [...]

Of course it is less frequently that we report funding news these days but that only makes funding announcements that still happen more newsworthy to us. Today’s announcement is Ifbyphone‘s new round of $4.6 million in venture funding. The funding comes from five VC firms: Apex Venture Partners and Origin Ventures that led this round [...]

In this post I would like to thank the great companies that have chosen to support Profy by becoming our sponsors. These companies help us immensely to keep this blog running to ensure that our readers get the latest news along with commentary on the most important technology events and trends here on Profy. ThemeForest [...]

A study released today by Pew Research proves an obvious fact: technology and gadgets are not particularly user-friendly and nearly half of all users need help setting up their devices or learning how to use them. The paradox is quite obvious to me: the latest and greatest technology tools are intended to make our lives [...]

I may be paranoid or something but I have a feeling that there is something very suspicious going on in the spam empire. You may remember that this week we have discussed news about a hosting company that powered numerous spammers and scammers disconnected from the internet. What’s more, we were told that we should [...]

The never-ending love of the blogosphere to the issue of linking to other blogs and failing to link when you really-really should is just plain amazing to me – we seem to never get tired of the entire meme and there is always some blogger or reporter who forgets to link back to the source [...]

We are having more news proving how fond the president-elect Barack Obama is of the internet and the latest and greatest communication tools it has to offer. After all, it was online where he won the presidential race, as many people believe – so I am not surprised watching him paying continuous attention to the [...]

Have you ever thought about doing some really quick search on your cell phone when on the go to find some place or store nearby but thought it was too difficult (and not really quick) to type all the letters to get the answer to your quick question? I do believe the answer will be [...]