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Google is still the reigning champion of monetizing the internet. With it’s firm hold on the search advertising niche and ever increasing variety of keyword based ad content types, the search giant looks like it will hold the crown for a while. Cementing that theory is today’s announcement that its popular Adsense revenue program will [...]

For the last few days the conversation at the forefront of the social web has been scalability, expecially as it applies to popular social site Twitter. Twitter is a simple application built on the Ruby on Rails programming framework, but it can't seem to keep up with its popularity. With every new Twitter activity flurry [...]

In a rare case of actual advance financial planning on the web, Google has announced the price structure for its Google App Engine offering.  Granted Google is not necessarily the best example of financial planning in an online company, since they are all about the Benjamins with their AdWords, AdSense and other monetization strategies. It’s [...]

I don’t usually write about plug ins to platforms on Profy, but I couldn’t resist writing about the latest from Technosailor (Aaron Brazell). It takes a concept I fell in love with last month, the TwitPitch, and makes it integrate easily into your existing blog. Stowe Boyd was the first to toss out the idea [...]

Cloud computing is one of the latest buzzwords to circulate through social media circles. Cloud computing could be the key to a true global society and economic growth, but international politics is holding it back. Defining cloud computing to someone who doesn't live and breathe the heady air of the Web 2.0 bubble can be [...]

The Twitterverse was all aflutter over the past 24 hours or so as Twitter was used as a venue for online harassment. As soon as I started seeing the harassment accusations flying across my screen in Twhirl (my desktop Twitter client of choice) I thought about the blogstorm over Kathy Sierra last year. I first [...]

Intodit came across my radar this week as a new platform for easy group creation. I am already a devoted fan of Ning as a platform for creating and managing groups, so I was interested to see someone else's interpretation of the concept. After checking out the Intodit platform I can say that they missed [...]

When I first saw the notification that P0pulist, a Particles / Massively Small Product application, went live, I thought I would be reviewing another Spokeo or similar application made for stalking keeping up with your friends online. It is a bit like Spokeo, Plaxo and other tracking applications in that it follows what your friends [...]

Red Herring has been escorted out of its offices by San Mateo County Sherriff's deputies. I have little sympathy for the plight of Red Herring CEO Alex Vieux, long known for his reluctance to handle day to day business affairs. The writers at the formerly storied magazine are a different matter – no one deserves [...]