Author Archive

I had a chance to catch up with FeedBurner employee, Eric Olson. Eric is responsible for cultivating relationships with bloggers, blog networks, podcasters and a wide range of independent and commercial publishers, making him a prime interviewee to look at here at Profy. During our conversation, I found out a little more about the service that so many of us use daily, the reasons behind its success, and the founding principals behind it. To me, the level of customer support, [...]

A while back, I covered Tim Bromhead's new startup, bla.st , which I dubbed a revolutionary 'step forward in advertising'. A few months on, I could not have said it better, as Tim continues to offer his 'bla.st Cards' for free! For those of you who are new, or who want a memory jog, here's the link to my original brief look at the website. Lucky as I am, I'm glad to say that I managed to catch Tim on [...]

ZCubes. Something I covered a while back very briefly. When covering it, I'd only gotten a feel for just a few of the portal's many features, and Parag Mathur, the company's VP of Product Management, invited myself and Svetlana Gladkova to an online presentation to find out more about the advanced features that ZCubes incorporates.
Currently, ZCubes full features are only available to those of you using Internet Explorer, and I know for a fact, that quite a large number of Profy's [...]

Read/Write Web has recently published a very interesting article, on the top domain names of 2006. It was interesting to see who made it into the list, and the incredible amounts they sold for. In actual selling value, in first place came Cameras.com, fetching $1.5million! Second place, came Blue.com, Bike.com & Wrestling.com, with just a third of that $1.5million, each of these domains still cashed in for a whopping $500,000!
But this makes me wonder… What makes a domain name worth [...]

The world is changing, and shifting away from traditional stereotypes. For example, children will now be found in the large, not outside, not in front of a TV, but instead, sat at a computer, spending endless hours chatting to friends via Instant Messaging programs such as MSN, AIM and Yahoo! IM. Instant messaging is only one, popular example.
Social networking on websites like MySpace has also been another major hit these past few years amongst kids and adults alike. At Profy, [...]

I just made $1000 in fifteen minutes using a startup that I’d never even heard of. I’m so glad that I stumbled across the little startup, because not only that, but it’s empowered me to do so much more. With the money, I’ve even managed to get my own domain name, Techzi.net! I was trialling ChipIn, in the hope that it would be suitable for a product review on Profy, and boy, it is.
ChipIn is a very simple tool that [...]

The next YouTube? Viddler.com appears to be having initial growth problems, but what lies beyond the startup page was very, very impressive. The innovation and ideas packed inside this little video uploader is truly unbelievable!
They add a whole ‘Web 3.0′ aspect to video sharing, with ‘Timed Comments’ that refer to exact moments within videos. Specific moments in videos can also get their own unique tags. For example, in a two hour movie that had a single scene with swearing in, [...]

Geonomy is an interesting new website, specializing in geo-tagging anything and everything, particularly anything Wikipedia related. Since its launch, the website has raked in visitors, and I went to find out some more.
Geonomy is very useful in many respects. Its aim is to provide an easier going style wikipedia, where everything, rather than just being plain old info, has a geo-tag too. You can search articles by location, or by a random tag, and the service is a really effective [...]

Wallhogs is a new startup that allows you to create your very own wall prints, slightly larger than your average shop sizes. At least, 52″ is bigger than anything that I’ve seen in a shop. This might not sound very Web2.0ish, but the website has a brilliantly simple Web 2.0 design and features some pretty impressive architecture, worthy of being mentioned here at Profy. It displays some key characteristics that make it this.
Simplicity (simple, minimalist, curved design). Interactivity (video introductions) [...]