Archive for November, 2008

Honestly, I did not want to write about Google Reader team proudly reporting on making the world wide web truly worldwide by offering the functionality to translate any feed you read into your native language (on condition that your native language is among those supported by Google’s machine translation system). Really, I thought I have [...]

Yesterday BBC reported on a study carried out after a working spam network had been hijacked by scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego. The network studied uses infected home computers to send junk mail in mass volumes instead of using servers of its own. It is reported that at one time [...]

There’s an interesting announcement on the blog of Second Life, probably still the best-known and the most popular virtual reality project. Today the team is announcing Linden Prize, a contest with the $10,000 in prize money to be paid to a member or a team of Second Life residents for the most innovative inworld project [...]

When Google and T-Mobile first announced the first Google Android-powered phone, T-Mobile G1, back in September, T-Mobile promised we would see a huge promotional campaign for the innovative gadget. So it is quite understandable that the blogosphere was a little disappointed when we did not see T-Mobile G1 pushed at us everywhere and the launch [...]

There’s a nice little announcement from the blog comments aggregating service BackType that I thought is worth mentioning here as I know that many of the Profy readers have already grown accustomed to using BackType to track comments on the topics they are interested in or from the people they want to hear opinions from. [...]

comScore has just published a report proving once again that while the world is suffering the financial crisis, the owners of various financial sites are doing more than well in terms of visitors (and possibly revenue as well). We have already spoken about money-related websites surviving the recession pretty well and today comScore provides additional [...]

For the first time in the nation’s history, the US will have a CTO in Obama’s administration – a person in charge of the overall technological development of the government and making sure the latest technology standards are met. The idea of introducing this role is quite logical given the fact that Barack Obama expressed [...]

There is no doubt that Sarah Palin has been one of the most interesting personas of the presidential race that has come to its end in the US this week. She was one of the most fascinating subjects and reporters covered almost every step Sara Palin did during the campaign. Now that the campaign is [...]

I have already said here on Profy before that unlike many bloggers I do appreciate various requests to review a website that land in my inbox. The reason in my case is quite simple – I don’t really love hunting for information and news and when something is pushed to my eyes, I will appreciate [...]