Posts Tagged with ‘blogs’

The Webby Awards, a celebratory symposium of websites (and their creators) voted by way of a public poll to be the best in their respective categories, is an annual event going into its 12th installation next year. And we would be remiss not to mention to our readers that today, November 14th, 2007, is the deadline for submissions.
So, you know, if your ego’s extra large and you feel deserving of a nifty trophy for all the hard word you’ve [...]

Bullying is nothing new; it's probably been around as long as humans have been around, and is generally viewed with a “kids will be kids” mentality, except in more extreme cases. And it logically followed that as teenagers made their way onto social networks like MySpace and Facebook , the bullying behaviors would follow.
What most people probably wouldn't have expected was what happened to Megan Meier, in which the mother of a former friend created a MySpace profile for [...]

Do you recall the blogosphere, circa 2000-2006?
It was something of an experimental landscape, was it not? Millions of personal blogs were created within that time frame. Thousands of “professional” ones, too. All of them unique to some degree, though some of course have been undeniable copycats of the successful, financially-lucrative few.
Okay, a lot of blogs are copycats of the popular bunch. And now what do we see? We see a great many amateur items remaining active, for sure. We’re [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless 3G access will make it a hit; whether the experience is similar enough to the tried-and-true pulp-based paper equivalent to warrant the attention it?s so [...]

Yesterday, Amazon’s main man, Jeff Bezos, took the press for a ride to a predicted future where trees grow as they please, no longer threatened by pulp-hungry paper mills, and where the invention known as the e-book finally gets the acclaim it’s been due.
That is, if such critical celebration is even warranted. Which is somewhat difficult to say definitively at the moment. Difficult for me to say, anyway.
Why? It all has to do with the medium – meaning [...]

Recognize the name Spotplex? If not, no worries. It’s a title given to a startup that’s positioned as a news tracker of sorts specifically aimed at ranking new posts, pages, developments, etc., in the world of blogs. Simple enough, right? Okay.
So, you’re thinking, that’s cool, but what’s the reason for the site’s mention today? Well, dear Profy reader, it recently had itself a few updates, and we thought we’d be a right good messenger and bring you the news. And, [...]

Tags have long been an integral feature of many web 2.0 services and, although some believe that tagging may be having a negative effect on the drive towards the semantic web, the use of tags has continued to spread. For example, Wordpress 2.3 (the latest version of the popular blogging platform) now includes tagging support by default, without any plugin.
But what about existing blogs that never had tags previously, but would like to add them. Going through each post [...]

This irks me. It’s irked me for a good long while. Now I want to say something about it.
“It” has to do with domains. In particular, their suffixes. You know, ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.org’.
You see, the use of these suffixes way back when didn’t mean much. Anyone could register just about any two, three, or four letter abbreviation (those made available by the overseers of these things, that is) to the end of their domain name with little care. Everyone [...]

In an effort to increase the slowing growth rate of the leading online auction marketplace, eBay has launched a new section of its website, known as eBay Neighborhoods, which is intended to provide a social network, across which eBay users can better communicate and contribute to a worthwhile shopping experience.
eBay's second quarter results, posted in July, were impressive, but new item listings on eBay's core shopping site declined by 6% from a year earlier while power seller listings were down [...]