Archive for February, 2009

Today I have received one of the funniest press releases I ever got with a person describing a new website he has just launched and clearly stating the reason for his new project: he has lost his job due to the economy and was looking for a way to stay afloat. Of course it is [...]

Online advertising is a tricky issue as every time I write a post related to it I expect tons of angry comments from readers insisting that they hate online ads and will never ever watch them - even if some of them admit that there’s nothing particularly wrong about the idea that a publisher of [...]

Yesterday an author of Ecommerce Journal published an interesting article about doing online business with Russian people supposedly based on the author’s own experience and it is no wonder that today all the Russian publications - both online and traditional media outlets - are full of reactions to that article as it suggests there’s a [...]

It is often striking to me to watch the majority of internet companies (both startups and established market leaders) only focusing on the US users for all their business operations. It is more than disappointing to see this approach when you are an international user yourself - and a user who wants to be a [...]

This afternoon I’ve spent a few minutes offline rebooting my machine after that. After the reboot I’ve had the Twhirl windows open, one of them with Twitter stream from my friends - and to my surprise it was populated with countless messages from my network about Gmail being down. A quick check proved that Gmail [...]

These days every now and then we see companies rethinking their business politics and overall business directions in order to keep healthy operations amidst the financial turmoil and try and survive the recession. The most recent example is Skype cancelling the possibility to send money via Skype using PayPal.
This functionality was introduced almost 2 years [...]

Apple is known for their impressive press events where they invite all the journalists and bloggers who could be interested to make presentations of new products and get all the coverage they can get in both online resources and traditional media. Sometimes these events are also broadcast live online, in other cases you will always [...]

Some of the loyal Profy readers may remember CloudContacts, an innovative service that helps people use the business cards they collect at various events by processing them and putting them to a friendly web interface for you to use wherever you are and even to connect to your contacts on various social networks so that [...]

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Yahoo is making a big announcement: upcoming launch of Yahoo! Mobile. The company is known for its love to announce first and make things available after some time only and today is no exception: starting from today Yahoo! Mobile will be available in a limited beta [...]