Posts Tagged with ‘2007’

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. [...]

The last 365.2425 days - give or take - have comprised a pretty remarkable period of time. Everything in the tech space has appeared supercharged since that day of new beginnings past. Whether you look at advancements made in root technologies that have enabled the transmission of higher and higher quality media over the Web, [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only [...]

The Webby Awards, a celebratory symposium of websites (and their creators) voted by way of a public poll to be the best in their respective categories, is an annual event going into its 12th installation next year. And we would be remiss not to mention to our readers that today, November 14th, 2007, is the [...]

Do you recall the blogosphere, circa 2000-2006?
It was something of an experimental landscape, was it not? Millions of personal blogs were created within that time frame. Thousands of “professional” ones, too. All of them unique to some degree, though some of course have been undeniable copycats of the successful, financially-lucrative few.
Okay, a lot of [...]

We brought you word first in early March 2007 of Adobe’s development of a Web-based Photoshop utility. Then in early September, Adobe broke its silence on the subject once more to an audience at Photoshop World. There it whet the palate of the masses with a brief teaser. A month later, at the company’s Max [...]

Familiar with DailyKos? Of course you are. You might like the blog; you might not. But you definitely know the name.
Well, this past Saturday the 2007 edition of the YearlyKos Convention, an annual gathering of bloggers, politicians, and various other influentials brought together under one roof by Markos Moulitsas, a civil puppeteer of sorts, hit [...]

The Webby Award winners for 2007 have been announced, and though the variety of categories doesn’t allow Web 2.0-centric entries to claim a majority, some well-known names – quite a few mentioned here on Profy in the past, in fact - are present on the roster to be celebrated come June 5th at a gala [...]

We told you about TED some time ago. In fact, you’ve probably been told by a great many sources about the renowned nonprofit and its conferences many times over. Nonetheless, it’s wonderful to get the opportunity to speak of it again, if only to mention that the producers of TED Talks have made another sizable [...]