Posts Tagged with ‘profy’

I am extremely happy to report the good news today: the first round of our iPhone contest is now completed and we have determined the winner (or rather you have determined the winner by discussing the article you found more thought-provoking). And the winner is Kris Ericson, author of the great article named ‘Web 2.0 Is Broken and Here's Why'. It looks like the key to success in the first round of our contest was controversy - the article really [...]

Here is a brief update on our iPhone competition. As you might remember, we announced the competition two weeks ago and invited you all to write articles on Web 2.0 and submit them to be published on Profy and participate in the contest. The contest will run all summer and is divided into 5 rounds lasting 2 weeks each. Yesterday submissions of articles for the first round ended and we are now ready to enter the next round.
The first round [...]

Truemor: What Google is *really* planning for 2008. Okay, the rumor starts here(my theory, doh)… Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world's largest social networking site 'overnight' and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet.
Huh? Exactly. Let me explain… while Yahoo! and others continue to explore acquisitions in the social networking space (e.g. Bebo et al), and the “buy-me-I'm-Facebook” dance continues, stop and ask yourself a question: having already built or acquired [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to Chris Saad, CEO of Particls, we now have a customized version of Particls available there in the sidebar for our readers. This custom version is designed to help you track Profy posts as well as the rest of your feeds and information needs. You can download this custom reader version here.
I'm going to freely admit that I haven't been able to see it myself yet, seeing as I switched over to Mac OS X without Parallels, but Chris [...]

Today I am very pleased to announce that we at Profyhave agreed on a content partnership that will definitely give you more high-quality articles to read and add further interactivity to your reading experience in addition to commenting on Profy. This partnership is with KillerStartups, one of the most promising startups I've seen lately. So from now on KillerStartupswill chose one of some 20 startups they review daily and publish the review here on Profy. I in turn encourage you [...]

This is a very special post for me. I want to thank all of our readers and contributors for being with Profy. Believe it or not, I already know all the MyBlogLog avatars of our loyal readers and I can actually say that I love them all! These have been the greatest six months of my entire life. I've become acquainted with the most brilliants minds in the Web 2.0 world, and I really enjoy switching on my laptop each [...]

Five months ago we celebrated the publication of our very first post on Profy. Since then we have achieved what I can shamelessly call brilliant results.  Today I can say with total certainty that I know the three keys to success in blogging: provide superb content, listen to what readers actually want to read, and be open to new suggestions. At Profy we follow these principles strictly: we only publish articles written by the most experienced and highly-skilled writers and [...]

Next New Networks is a new startup by former MTV and Nickelodeon executives Herb Scannell and Fred Seibert. The cable TV innovators are getting back together to start a series of video web sites that they have dubbed “micro-networks”. The topics of these networks are to be niche topics like fashion, comic books, car racing and cartoons.
According to a story by Brad Stone of the NYT, the company will announce that it has received $8 million in seed capital, partly [...]