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imo.im seems to be one of the startups launched by ex-Googlers that gets less attention than an average ex-Googlers' project and even less than deserved. So after getting an announcement from the guys behind imo.im I've decided to update you on their latest news - support of Skype protocol.
We covered imo.im before on Profy but for those uninitiated I'll remind you that this is a web-based instant messaging multi-protocol client competing with Meebo in the field. It [...]

It should have happened, obviously. We have already seen spammers invading Twitter with their one or two updates linking to the same webpage trying to sell you something. We have already seen manuals explaining how to sell on Twitter efficiently. But obviously this is not the worst that could have happened: after all, Twitter has a great potential to distribute anything, both legitimate links and opinions and spam and viruses as well. So we see someone using [...]

Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to me the most interesting part in both stories is that if Eric's sources are correct, Facebook's internal valuation is now at $4 billion while that [...]

It looks like Microsoft is pretty serious about social networking - serious enough to carry out a dedicated study to prove Kevin Bacon's law of 6 degrees (that you can be linked to by anybody else by less than 7 acquaintances).
To prove this idea Microsoft used the database of Microsoft Messenger users for the study with the major goal of finding out what's the distance between two random people on Earth if they are connected [...]

I have just received an announcement from a startup Arzoola that introduced Social Call!, the application that its creators brand as "the world's first Craigslist application". I am not sure if it is actually the first in the world but since it sounded too intriguing and we definitely get much more announcements for Facebook apps, I've decided to give Social Call! a go and see what it has to offer.
The service they offer is very simple [...]

Since I am not in the US, it is always fascinating to see some international news going big among US journalists and readers - so today's article in the New Your Times titled "An Innocent Abroad" was a great refreshment to me. The article has a lot of valid points about how the internet Anglosphere views the rest of the internet - I mean those of us that are wired but don't have English as their native [...]

SocialOyster is a very new lifestreaming service that I am very impressed by after giving it a test run. The best part about SocialOyster is the unusual selection of services the site provides in addition to lifestreaming as it is. But let me start with a short introduction. I am often amazed at how startups manage to do everything wrong when pitching bloggers. Today's example was when I extracted from my "Spam" folder an email with the [...]

Over this week we've been listening to the discussions about international media demanding that the Chinese government rethinks its position on blocking a number of websites that were (and most certainly still are) considered by the government as hazardous to their citizens and their states of mind. What we see now is that under this pressure China is simply forced to lift the restrictions to a certain extent - the extent that can be viewed as acceptable by [...]

I'd like to share some updates regarding the bloggers here on Profy. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira has resigned from Profy and has announced she will be working at The Industry Standard. We wish Cyndy success on all of her future projects. We also learned last night from a post on Mashable that Leslie Poston and Triston McIntyre have also left. We wish them well on their future endeavors. I regret that the story was made public by a high-profile [...]