Posts Tagged with ‘application’

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

As I am just escaping the undergraduate college community, I tend to consider myself something of a Facebook expert. That isn't to say I consider myself an industry analyst or anything like that; as Facebook is as necessary an element of each college student's life as the infamous Cup-O-Noodles, I would probably best label my relationship to Facebook currently "Recovering Facebook Expert."
That being said, I'm intrigued to some degree or another by the direction Facebook applications [...]

I tend to keep my eye on about a dozen or so feeds (gathered by Google Reader, if you’re curious to know) every day in order to scrounge up enough fodder for my posts here at Profy. (Si, soy un moocher.) Some of course receive more attention than others.
Case in point: I passed over my subscription to CNET’s Tech News Blog for the first couple of days of the week, and in so doing, missed quite a delectable piece [...]

I’ve been known to rag on Yahoo! here at Profy far more often than praise or glorify the company. But hey, as the saying goes, you gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em, right?
And the media on the whole has rightly pilloried the Web giant for a number of its controversial actions and statements; some more egregious than others, of course. I mean, come on. Divulging sensitive information to Chinese authorities about dissident voices? Despite the threat of [...]

Yesterday, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley published a post highlighting the news of Google’s feature enhancements and additions to the company’s Maps utility. And he proposed a question: “Is Google Earth on borrowed time?”
Now, I’m sure some of you are thinking that such a query doesn’t hold much ground. That Google Earth is hardly symmetrical to Maps. That it’s a heck of a lot more powerful, and that its uses are quite different. (For example, while Google Earth can [...]

Since Tuesday morning, the tech blog world has been buzzing about the supposed imminent release of Google’s online storage service, which it sensibly intends to add to its software suite of email, word processing, and photo hosting utilities.
Well, we’re not so sure "sensible" is the way to describe it. Despite its establishment of a niche of adopters, online storage hasn’t very much taken off at all.
The general hesitation is quite understandable, too. For one, users have yet to fully trust [...]

Nivea - the world renowned beauty and body care company - has just launched their “Beauty Is” campaign. This campaign is aimed at traversing traditional advertising with a pseudo-Web 2.0 push of their updated website. In conjunction with Skinkers - Nivea has created a desktop application (ticker) that is essentially designed to “drive” the consumer to the revamped website. Actually, Nivea made no bones about plunking out a press release to the effect that the beauty site is going to [...]

When the first signs of eBay’s standalone AIR-based application, code named San Dimas, hit the Web, we were on it. In mid-April, when the company announced the development’s existence, we passed word on to you.
Well, now you can try San Dimas, now officially given the title ‘eBay Desktop’, for yourself. It’s been months since its first appearance, and it’s finally gone into public beta phase. Mac OS X 10.4 users, as well as those with Microsoft’s XP and Vista operating [...]

Diigo.com announced their re-launch today with an information network unlike any we have seen in  scope or capability. The new Diigo network being unveiled at DEMOfall 07 creates global communities around data, information, interests and knowledge. These new communities engage and connect people around the content they collect and use. Diigo is already one of the most useful bookmarking and research sites on the Web. The integration of Webslides and the power of “writing the Web” makes Diigo perhaps the [...]