Posts Tagged with ‘blogging’

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits.
Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay anything for content online. More and more companies are ditching the subscription model in favor of other methods.
Is it just me or are their [...]

Sure, you have heard of spam, but have you heard of bacn? Not what you eat for breakfast, but what you find in your email inbox that is a legitimate email, but not really worth viewing.
When you get those messages from communities you have joined that simply notify you of updates or a new friend, that is bacn.
MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and many other web 2.0 services have contributed to this growing issue. But, if it is not really spam, and [...]

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 crowd of bloggers.
Riding on the wave of the popularity of online video, VeZoom has come up with a development that combines video with RSS [...]

Profy is building something exciting for the tech-savvy crowd. The Profy development team is at work on a very large-scale Web 2.0 project to be launched in public beta later this year. It's an advanced blogging platform with an integrated powerful RSS reader enhanced by social featured. The application will drastically change the way we blog and read our news.
At the moment, the product is in strictly private beta and we're looking for a strong team of early testers [...]

There are several options to choose from with RSS feed readers. You can choose a standalone client (FeedDemon), a browser plugin (Sage), or a reader accessible through a website (Google Reader). All of these options, however, lack some of the features that newcomer Fav.or.it promises to provide. The service is not yet available, but will enter private beta testing soon.
Fav.or.it , which just launched its preview website today, is aiming to provide a feed reader that also helps you [...]

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 wanted to get an invite, then dangle it over their friends who, in turn, did the same to their friends. While the viral effect on [...]

As I am sure you already know, viral video is all the rage on the internet. It is all about sharing and embedding your favorite video content into other sources such as your social network profile or a blog. Now, bloggers have an all new place to catch the latest videos… but this time, they are not comedic or user-generated. They are news and current event videos.
Today, the NewsMarket, launched VideoCafé, a new service that will give bloggers the ability [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of a labor union for bloggers. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal found that there is a "coalition of left-wing bloggers" trying to form a labor union with hopes that such a group will aid them in the process of receiving health benefits and conducting collective bargaining.
The biggest concern and cause for the "union talk" is probably best described by David Krug who writes that "one [...]

Let's face it. Great inventions will always have their fair share of clones, replicas and variations. Yes, this means that I am calling Digg a great invention and, yes, it means that there are a lot of digg clones.
Many of those Digg clones attempt to be exactly that… a copy of Digg with minor changes. The problem with this is that Digg has already created it's vast community, which is loyal and most likely unwilling to trade to another [...]