Posts Tagged with ‘blogs’

You thought for people to call you an A-lister you will have to work hard and build your blog into a noticeable name? Honestly, I used to share your opinion but that has changed today when I found out that to become an A-lister you can simply join a new blog network called exactly “A-List Bloggers Network”. That’s it, no more hard work involved, really.
The people behind the network mention that it “debuted last week at ASAE with a dozen [...]

It seems that recently the problem with embargoes and breaking them has grown acute again. I for one have seen at least 3 embargoes broken this week only and I can imagine there are others where I am simply unaware of the embargo time.
One of the latest examples made me particularly angry when I myself was writing the post to go live at the embargo time and saw the story on one of the major blogs 2 hours before the [...]

ProProfs is a provider of web-based learning tools, including flashcards, blogs, forums and social bookmarking. Today ProProfs is introducing a completely revamped tool for quizzes creation - Quiz School - with a totally new interface and a great number of new features.
The company claims that it is bringing quizzes to a new level where they become social, fun and easy both to create and take. The newly introduced interface is rather similar to that of YouTube (and thus familiar to [...]

There’s a very interesting post on CenterNetworks today full of righteous indignation against Alexa and the way it has recently lowered rankings for numerous blogs. In fact, I have noticed that myself for Profy but decided not to bother because we have never relied on Alexa to measure our traffic.
The assumption is that Alexa changed the algorithm not to take traffic coming from social media and social news sites into account - and Andy Beard has a number of interesting [...]

We do seem to be talking too much about women in technology lately but given the latest Playboy poll and the BlogHer conference I think it is not surprising. So ReadWriteWeb came up with a list of favorite female bloggers compiled by its bloggers. Obviously, it was a pleasure to have two Profy bloggers included in the list. After that Orli Yakuel (who was obviously on the list as well) created a slideshow of 50 blogs written [...]

And with that title, I may actually end up struck by lightning.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Gawker properties. I find most of the blogs in the network witty and a welcome respite from the constant regurgitation of the same old news items that I end up reading most of the day, but at the same time, as with the CES incident, I do think that they often cross the line.
When it comes down to a slapfest between Nick [...]

If you follow Profy with any attention, you may have noticed that nice banner in the sidebar announcing Profy participation in the Web 2.0 Expo that will take place in San Francisco on April 22-25. For us this is not some ordinary event - this is the first time the Profy blogging platform will be publicly announced at a major industry event.
This means that we are also going to make a big announcement at the conference - Profy beta will [...]

The latest promise of a spam-free search engine aided by the power of people, Twingly has entered closed beta status, with a planned release during the second quarter.
The claim by the company's Swedish founders is that existing blog searches (such as Google's) were built for an American audience and don't work well in Europe due to the number of languages used. The company was founded in 2006, and offers a search engine for Swedish blogs, as well as providing widgets [...]

No sooner does a social media app take off than new ways of using said app to recreate cliques follow. Whether it's blogs or Twitter or FriendFeed, it seems there has to be a group of cool kids, and one of the not-so-cool kids.
Going in reverse order, there is already a pruning being done of FriendFeed accounts. To me, it's understandable; all FriendFeed has really done is add one more social network for people to have to track. Rather than [...]