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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 [...]

Chris Brogan has just introduced a new tool that promises to eliminate at least some of the clashes between the PR types and media - both traditional and new. The tool is PitchEngine and it is what the name suggests: the tool to pitch media efficiently and hopefully annoy bloggers less by doing everything wrong.
PitchEngine is the latest project from Jason Kintzler and it is currently in private alpha so you will need to request an invitation [...]

Sometimes Google simply puzzles me. It is a multi-billion dollar company, right? It has all the resources to venture into absolutely any new field - by either investing in internal development or buying all the companies it thinks could complement its other products or even launching a venture fund of their own if they so choose.
And now I look at the latest post on the Official Google Blog and one thing comes to my mind: Google actually takes [...]

Isn't this just the flurry of social gaming news we've had in the last few days?  My penchant has been more than satisfied.  Though Scrabble creator Hasbro decided to throw a small temper tantrum, known as a "lawsuit," about Scrabulous' rather blantant copy of the popular boardgame for the web, the folks responsible for Scrabulous rallied back and took some precautious measures to make sure the good people of social media wouldn't be without their word game for too long.
The [...]

By most accounts, people wouldn't think I'm a very private person. I'm online most of the day. I blog in several places. I'm active on most social media sites. Most people are aware that my husband is also online and on Twitter and FriendFeed, and that I have four children and that my youngest is a huge fan of Seesmic. So it would seem I'm pretty open in that regard.
Anything revealed, however, is surface-level. I don't use my children's real [...]

I have bumped into a post by Mark Krynsky today titled "AOL launches buddyupdates Lifestreaming Service and Nobody Notices". Since I am far from a heavy AIM user myself (I only have 2 contacts and one of them actually forced me to get another IM protocol when I clearly felt I did not need one), I had not been aware of the buddyupdates existence neither so it was interesting to check it out, especially because it was [...]

It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the feature of the social network. True, I actually expected more improvements right when the redesigned profiles were launched and I still think one huge thing is missing but the filters already make it better.
Logically, the new functionality launched today on Facebook allows for some additional filtering within the news feed where we see the [...]

Social Median has been opened up to a public beta now. Early adopter type that I am, I of course had to run right over and check it out. I’m still playing with it, but I have a few initial impressions about the overall service so far.
First, Social Median is no FriendFeed. If you were hoping for a replacement to FriendFeed like I was, this is not it. It has a few similar features, but in the end, it is [...]