Posts Tagged with ‘global-warming’

Of course it is quite difficult to like a website on its launch date when all you get is a lengthy and awkward name but I think Save The Planet And Win definitely deserves a very close look from everyone because of the great idea intended to help everyone do what we can to fight global warming.
The idea behind the website is absolutely simple and straightforward: the website promotes environmental awareness while the companies sponsoring the site pay for regular [...]

By now, most of us have heard about the global warming crisis that is endangering the planet. Al Gore spoke on the topic in the phenomenally popular documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and you can even find several sites across the web (even a blog) out to educate the world about the issue and how it takes each of us individually to commit to changing our lifestyles to make a difference. The problem there, though, is that most people fear change [...]

Our Web was the platform for a blitz by nearly 16,000 bloggers concerned with global warming and the environment today. Blog Action Day, a U.N. backed event, represents a significant milestone for Web 2.0. Bloggers from around the world participated in serving up ideas, tips and data to inform people via their blogs. Blogs have been a rapidly growing medium for concern and information about environmental problems. News on important issues from the U.N. summit to Al Gore's recent Nobel [...]

Do you recall, several seasons back, MTV trying to break into the music retail online to combat (or follow, however you?d like to put it) iTunes and its steadily growing domination over the market? It made the attempt with Urge, a Windows Media Player-based outlet. As Viacom, the owner of MTV, discovered rather quickly, however, it never quite made much of a name for itself, despite a hefty publicity push. (It is now residing in merger with Real Networks' Rhapsody.)
Well, [...]

Yahoo! just launched two initiatives in an effort to establish their position as a major resource for Web 2.0 environmental leadership. The major component of this initiative has been dubbed Yahoo! Green, an information portal to deal with global warming issues, environmental news, information and help guides for people to live a more environmentally conscious life.
The new Yahoo! Green initiative launch is being accompanied by the very first competition to find the most eco-friendly city in America called Be [...]

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 [...]