Posts Tagged with ‘blogs’

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 [...]

While many of the Baby Boomers have traded protests for portfolios, there is another generation utilizing the latest and greatest in Web 2.0 technology to really affect change, and it's not just the microfinance lending companies like Kiva and FINCA.
Last year alone, $3 billion (USD) was invested in clean tech, in a total of 221 deals, a 43% increase over that market segment in 2006. Steve Newcomb, co-founder of Powerset, thinks that the growth in clean tech will grow exponentially, [...]

As a newly launched directory of blogs, Blogged.com is aiming to not only provide visitors with links to thousands of interesting blogs, but to be a “blog discovery and exploration tool supported by a network that connects bloggers with readers.” Having just publicly launched two days ago (February 25, 2008) the database of more than 200,000 blogs of various categories is already impressive in size.
Where most blog search tools use tags and keywords to find individual posts within blogs, Blogged [...]

Watching the Yahoo layoffs on Tuesday as news of who was out hit Twitter and blogs was depressing, to say the least. But the biggest surprise, at least for me, was what appeared to be a decimation of Brickhouse, with Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division leaving for Google, and Salim Ismail, head of Brickhouse, either getting the axe or leaving of his own accord depending on which news source you read.
Obviously, I have no secret window into [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

Profy has finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been developing it here in Russia for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was lifted and I think I will post links to some of the first reviews here to cordially thank all the bloggers.
Crenk was the first to break the story though I was a [...]

Blogs can be wonderful things. They can be informative, and can perhaps be taken as trustworthy authorities on various subjects. They can be irreverently grim and/or humorous to levels mostly avoided by the industry of old media, a freedom which can be exploited to their great advantage. They can be quite inclusive as far as communication is concerned between writer, editor, and reader, enabling them to appear more “down to Earth” than their antecedents.
On the whole, they comprise an [...]

Profy has been in this exciting and crowded world of Web 2.0 for over a year now and every single moment of this period has been absolutely gorgeous. We have had lots of things to report on and lots of accomplishments to celebrate. And we have also learned lots of things - things about blogging, technology, and communications. But one thing that I know for sure now is that web 2.0 is not actually about technology, money, standards and innovation. [...]