Posts Tagged with ‘mashable’

This is our first in a series of profiles about people of Web 2.0, and perhaps this kind of post is the most appropriate after all. In our excursions across the blogosphere we run across some of the most interesting people, but too often we take them for granted or lose track of the fact that Web 2.0 really IS people. So here is my first installment in recognition of the famous and semi-famous of Web 2.0.
Requiem for a [...]

Smell that? That’s a rumor. One involving Facebook and a supposed music service the company will announce later this month. What do you think? Plausible? Or unlikely?
There may a few grains of truth in what some forecasters are predicting. If you look at what MySpace has done to organize a music site of its own, it makes absolute sense for Facebook to desire something of the same vein for itself. Facebook lacks a place of its own to [...]

What is the problem? YouTube and Google just allow people to share content right? Well, someone else does not like their content being shared as more news arrives of yet another lawsuit against the dynamic duo of Google and YouTube. Plaintiffs including the English Premier Soccer League are suing over copyright infringement allegations.
News from Reuters/Yahoo just revealed the filings in the U.S. District Court in New York by the Football Association Premier League Ltd. and music publisher Bourne Co. According [...]

Gochongo! The name has a ring to it doesn't it? The startup GoChongo just entered private beta testing April 1st and is scheduled for public testing by today. The site is a community where a contest format is used in order to put artists and producers together. The twist here is that any person or business can be the producer by simply posting a project.
The way this works is a user submits or produces a concept which is in turn [...]

Blinkx video search appears to be going public next month. The decision emanates from the Autonomy Group, which intends to exercise an option over their shares in Blinkx. Blinkx just announced the other day a partnership with National Geographic to index their acclaimed documentaries. Blinkx is currently the world's largest video search engine. Their service has endeavored to solve the problem of accessing the vast amount of video on the Web via their unique search capability.
According to this news via Yahoo! the company will be [...]

On a very slow day I finally found a very interesting story about the lawsuit against Statsaholic by Alexa. Alexa is suing Ron Hornbaker the developer of Statsaholic over the domain name Alexaholic, which was Hornbaker's original domain for the feature filled ranking site.
The depth of the story was reported by TechCrunch back in March, but essentially Statsaholic began to gain popularity because of their features, but changed their name and stopped using the conflicting Alexaholic domain to appease Amazon. Amazon got [...]

One of my favorite bloggers was reportedly banned by the Thai government today. Pete Cashmore wrote to his readers that Mashable has been banned because of his blogs reporting on the YouTube ban incident. The ban, if there is one, is not the subject of this post, but the ability of a great blogger/news-person to ride the razors edge is something our readers should be interested in. Sometimes we do not even notice the often subtle ways that people display their [...]

A bunch of gals from the UK are about to launch an interesting and shiny new site focused on shopping and social networking. OsoYou.com will cover the spectrum with topics from celebrity, shopping and style to the habitually cute.
The blog is all that is evidenced so far about the new startup but Mashable reported yesterday that the company just secured $2 million from Brightsation Ventures. Evidently the UK will be the market focus of OsoYou but obviously women in the [...]

You know I have come a ways as a blogger. With the help of our community here and people all over the Web, my blogging experience has been a charmed one really. I was reading some other blogs earlier and ran across a post at Mashable that was quite extraordinary.
The thing is, all writers and bloggers strive to present things that their readers will find interesting, and perhaps occasionally fascinating. I know the authors here at Profy feel that [...]