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Just a reminder that our VP, Business Development, Svetlana Gladkova, one of our writers, Cyndy Aleo-Carriera and several representatives of the company, including CEO Ilya Korsun, are at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Expo this week. They are there to launch the new Profy blogging platform, one stop shopping for every blogger's needs. To meet the [...]

Google has announced the roll out of their new Quote Finder feature. This may not be huge news to everyone, but to someone who is always looking for the best quote for an article, this is a huge help. Being able to find the quote I need without having to work as hard at it [...]

Twitter has been captivating internet users for months, only growing in popularity as a microblogging platform since its launch. Lately Twitter has seen an increase in use as a platform for marketers and businesses. To Twitter purists, this is an invasion of their space. To marketers, it is just another innovative and cheap form of [...]

New social media service Strutta gives new meaning to the term “bragging rights”, as applied to home video. If you constantly brag that you are the best at handstands in three counties, Strutta gives you a place to prove it. If you have an obnoxious friend or coworker who won't shut up about how great [...]

New on the music scene in social media is Route Note, a service designed to enable musicians to use the social web to manage their music library. Designed with the indie artist in mind, Route Note puts the strength of contract negotiation and marketing into an easy web based package. Route Note entered its public [...]

The big announcement from Sun Microsystems this week is the background on its new Internet hosting platform project, dubbed Project Caroline. The project is a research and development vehicle that will potentially provide the hosting for various SaaS providers. Sun was in the news earlier this year with its acquisition of Open Source server application [...]

If nothing else, the social web has made it easier than ever before to change how you work. For businesses and people seeking a more personal work flow, they can find it via Web 2.0 tools and other unique ideas born out of the Internet melting pot. From Google Docs, online document sharing and virtual [...]

Our Politics and Social Networking series now includes a mention for revered channel NPR (National Public Radio). NPR has added a social network to its roster that is geared to the political set, called GetMyVote. The site brings the concept of social interaction online to a new level. NPR has given users a place to [...]

In a move possibly designed as an end run around Microsoft’s bid, Yahoo execs have decided to do a test placement of Google ads on the Yahoo family of sites, and to join forces with Time Warner / AOL. A partnership between Yahoo and AOL would give the struggling internet company enough clout to fight [...]