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Is this true? Could it be? Has it finally happened? Perhaps… What would happen if Flickr (Yahoo Owned) and YouTube (Google Owned) were to merge into one, separate website? One online media website to rule them all. Dun-dun-dah! Nope… Not Lord Of The Rings! Read on… This is big stuff! Well, Pixilis, the photo/video sharing [...]

Imagine the possibilities that tabbed browsing could hold. Twerq.com has gone on their own quest to discover just that with their new tabbed searching beta. I’m backing Twerq as one of the big players in future search and think that the concept has bucket loads of cash, features and ideas that are yet to be [...]

Could this be the new Google? Webnumism is a very interesting new start-up beta which is rocking the net. Part search engine, yet still managing to be part multimedia gallery, Webmunism is a brand new way to find your favourite online pictures, best videos, albums, and information, online, easily, quickly and hassle free. What’s new? [...]

Google probably guessed that when they purchased YouTube in October, not only were they adding a valuable marketing tool to their arsenal, but also deciding the future fate of that thing called TV. Google also probably guessed that they were about to take on board a huge legal fight that would probably cost them billions [...]

Yesterday, I brought you a rather interesting article on a Firefox OS. Today, I bring you something to compete with even that. Amazon, the A9 and Alexa giants, have announced that they have finally finished their online operating system. In August, Amazon hit the headlines with their ‘web services field-plan’ for a Web 2.0 magazine. [...]

Many speculated that when Google took over YouTube, they would be sued for masses by the music industry. Today, YouTube was sued. Not by the music industry though, but instead by UTube.com. UTube is a manufacturer of all kinds of exciting things including ‘tube mills’ and ‘tube machinery’. UTube actually means ‘Universal Tube & Rollform [...]

When you thought the OS world couldn’t get any better than Linux, free online operating systems started showing up on the net. Until now, they’ve never really been any good. ‘Crappy’ at most. But now, from one of the most prominent members of the Firefox team, Ross Blake, comes his new startup. Parakey sounds just [...]

Web 2.0, is a wonderfully simple, highly useful thing… But now, leading experts say there is a price. Along with user-enabling power, people must be aware of the situation. With power, there is also responsibility. Web 2.0 is not defined by any one thing, as the numerous posts by Profy authors trying their best to [...]

Condé Nast, the owner of popular online website Wired News, has purchased Reddit in a shock takeover. Reddit, the online bookmarking rival of Digg and such has always been one of the main contenders in the war for social bookmarking domination. The takeover could very well be a strategic move on Condé Nast’s part of [...]