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It was announced yesterday that Podaddies, a San Francisco-based video advertising start-up, had recently inked a deal with Apple to develop advertising compatibility for Quicktime and iTunes. No money has been exchanged in the deal, but does this mean that future iTunes videos for download could have embedded advertisements?
Currently, Apple does not provide any ad-supported content, but I wouldn't put it past them given the revenue potential that the advertising industry now has.
The main concern that I had with ads [...]

… So what's the 3.0 model? Believe it or not, Rick Rubin knows.
When I first saw the headline for Rick Rubin's comments, I'm pretty sure I laughed out loud and rolled my eyes. But Rubin isn't someone to be scoffed at in the music industry; after all, this is a man who foresaw the popularity of hip-hop and rap. There's a reason an artist like the late Johnny Cash would turn to Rubin for a career boost; the man knows [...]

The Web is abuzz with talk over who in the Apple-NBC debacle is the worst off for the planned severance to come next week, when The Peacock’s fall programming has its public debut. Profy’s very own Cyndy Aleo-Carreira covered the news soon after it broke, and now we receive word that, following its exit from the iTunes shop, NBC has tapped Amazon for the distribution of its content for the season ahead. So we figured we’d pick the story apart [...]

Sony’s once sterling reputation has in recent years caked on quite a bit of mud. It’s dealt with a backlash from consumers over underhanded rootkit installations made to consumers’ PCs. It’s seen its Walkman heritage fade every so painfully to become what many would agree is now, when juxtaposed against the all-powerful iPod-iTunes duopoly, just another second-class. And just last week the company announced that it is shelving the ATRAC file format it stubbornly held onto since as far [...]

Did you find it at all strange or perhaps a touch disappointing to find the world of cellular phone makers seemingly sitting around idly as Apple debuted it’s “revolutionary” mobile touch screen device back in late June? It was quite bizarre actually. There they were, about four or five big-name handset manufacturers – not to mention the creators of widely implemented mobile operating systems – none of which had anything close to an alluring answer to Cupertino’s finest new gadgetry.
Well, [...]

How do you prefer to watch television? As it comes, either over the airwaves or via a cable-based setup? Perhaps you like to record your favorite shows for viewing after they’re broadcast. How about on-demand, by way of a download process, via good ol’ Internet Protocol?
The last scenario is likely to be the least favored by the average individual. Nonetheless, it’s the model put forth as the soon-to-be “next big thing” by Google’s Vint Cerf. (Beware, the linked page [...]

Are you unsatisfied with the results that a Google search turns up? Are too many of the links irrelevant or not at all useful? Well, if so, there is a new social search engine aiming to provide you with a new way to search. Sure there are Mahalo and Aftervote, but now there is iRazoo, which goes one step further… with prizes.
This new social search engine, developed by four Houston entrepreneurs and launched today, is claiming to be the ?world?s [...]

It looks like automated audio blogging is growing increasingly popular these days. We reviewed Odiogo back in January, recently we have also talked about Talkr and when browsing podcasting apps on Simple Spark, the Web 2.0 categorized catalogue I was so impressed with on Thursday I have found another similar application named BlueGrind. This product has not been reviewed on Profy but anyway it is really a very new service (it only has a handful of already registered feeds and [...]

iPhone is big even though it has not been released yet. But it will be released soon (June, 29 in case you have not heard this date yet) and I guess it will be even bigger when it is actually available. Besides, iPhone is the most Web 2.0-ish gadget we have heard of recently. Profy is always willing to give our readers the best of Web 2.0. And here is our next move in this direction. This summer you will [...]