Posts Tagged with ‘Brazil’

Hey, what d’ya know, more YouTube news. The Google subset is now taking up more headline space than that which documents the travails of Paris Hil— Okay, I won’t go there. On to the topic at hand.
In its latest briefing to the world (literally) YouTube has done those based outside the US the courtesy of creating “country-specific” – nine to start – sites in order to better serve its international visitors/viewers. Nations listed in the global launch are: Brazil, England, [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]

We all know that Google permits its employees to use about a quarter of their labor hours doing something outside their primary occupation. And it was in his own spare time that one of Google's developers - Orkut Buyukkokten - built a social network named with his own name - Orkut. The network was launched over 3 years ago - on January 22, 2004.
Orkut grew very popular almost immediately: it reached more than 100 thousand registered users within 2 [...]