Posts Tagged with ‘blog’

Last month Leslie asked if 2008 would be the year of Open Source, and I commented that most successful Open Source applications ended up bankrolled and under the control of one of the major industry players. Sun just rolled one more Open Source app under it's gigantic umbrella, this time purchasing MySQL AB for [...]

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Gizmodo's prank at CES, using a TV-B-Gone device to turn off displays at booths and during presentations. The actual offender has been banned from future CES attendance, with other ramifications possible.
The story has gotten considerable coverage, including the mainstream press, including the New York Times. Virtually every [...]

Back in May of last year, I was concerned that the military's newest policy was going to restrict the ability of U.S. military personnel stationed in war zones to be able to use blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. As someone so entrenched in the blog medium, I couldn't imagine being part of the [...]

The evolutionary gem known as the blog has come a long way since its official origin back in the mid ‘90s. Jorn Barger, dubbed the designer of the term “weblog” (and it’s definition), claims to have started the trend – now a phenomenon of global proportions – by assembling a daily catalogue of links amassed [...]

VeZoom is an online video search engine that has been putting in some hard work to increase its service's features and its footprint across the web. Two weeks ago, Profy featured a review of MyVeZoom, which provides users with a customizable interface to locate videos from. Now, the service is out recruit from the [...]

Last month I was completely underwhelmed by Pownce. If you've been under a Social Networking rock over the last little while, Pownce is a Twitter-like service which updates your social network about what you're doing, new links, new videos, etc. The appeal of Pownce WASN'T the service itself - it was the invite process. Everyone [...]

I started to get social networking fatigue a long time ago, yet I have friends who keep asking me to sign up for more sites. They want to know what movies I like on Blockbuster or Netflix. And sure, there's I Heart Movies, but then you also get questions about what software you recommend. What [...]

I was visiting the hakia blog today and found an interesting post by Melek Pulatkonak their COO. Recent privacy problems in the news and particularly Google's "issues" in this area have prompted much discussion. According to this blog article hakia has initiated a second "Search for Better Search" conversation with these critical and debated issues [...]

The evolution of the blog has been an interesting one to watch. From something that began as an onilne diary; a simple way to not only keep a journal but also communicate en masse to friends and strangers alike, the medium has morphed into its very own media category, with blogs being used for everything [...]