Posts Tagged with ‘reddit’

There’s a nice little announcement from the blog comments aggregating service BackType that I thought is worth mentioning here as I know that many of the Profy readers have already grown accustomed to using BackType to track comments on the topics they are interested in or from the people they want to hear opinions from.
Basically BackType serves as an aggregator of comments from a variety of blogs - both standalone and published on multiple blogging platforms - for every commentator [...]

Last week I had a chance to speak with the team at Artiklz, a San Francisco based startup that is officially debuting in public alpha tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. The startup works in the blog commenting field and the first thing I thought was that the field was over-saturated already and did not need yet another player to add to Disqus, recently acquired by Automattic IntenseDebate or JS-Kit.
To my surprise, this has been a rare case [...]

I may be heading toward a future as a Steven Hodson acolyte, because I'm starting to feel a little bit too cranky about some of the latest entrants into the Web 2.0 space. I'm all about democracy in site creation and user-generated content, but I guess I draw the line at letting the unwashed masses mess with my PBS content.
I'm really thinking about not renewing my annual donation based on the concept of YourWeek, a weekly television program whose content [...]

So, how’d you spend your pseudo-religio-slash-gungho-consumero holiday break? Watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the upteenth time? Had your standard overfill of the eggnog once more? Finally put to paper a solemn vow to wreak damage upon all the world’s sweater makers?
We at Profy did what we do best. We spent our precious free moments away from word processors trawling the Web for lots and lots of digital junk (food). And, like plenty other Internet fanatics who double as Digg [...]

Recognize the name Spotplex? If not, no worries. It’s a title given to a startup that’s positioned as a news tracker of sorts specifically aimed at ranking new posts, pages, developments, etc., in the world of blogs. Simple enough, right? Okay.
So, you’re thinking, that’s cool, but what’s the reason for the site’s mention today? Well, dear Profy reader, it recently had itself a few updates, and we thought we’d be a right good messenger and bring you the news. And, [...]

There are several different social bookmarking sites around, and many people use more than one of them on a daily basis. Keeping track of all of these account can be time-consuming. Until now, there has not really been a service that aims to make this task easier.
Notifir is an interesting new tracking service, which has just gone public, that plans to simplify the process of managing and keeping track of social bookmarking accounts from one central location.
Eventually, the service [...]

Let's face it. Great inventions will always have their fair share of clones, replicas and variations. Yes, this means that I am calling Digg a great invention and, yes, it means that there are a lot of digg clones.
Many of those Digg clones attempt to be exactly that… a copy of Digg with minor changes. The problem with this is that Digg has already created it's vast community, which is loyal and most likely unwilling to trade to another [...]

Fichey is about as simple as browsing the internet can get. This new service that launched today provides a basic flash site that works very similar to StumbleUpon by allowing users to browse popular current websites.
One major difference though, is that this service is not in traditional web 2.0 style which involves collaboration. Instead, the sole purpose of this service is to re-hash content that has recently been popular on the social bookmarking services Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. [...]

Social bookmarking has only come to be utilized to a large degree in recent years. The first service to really popularize the practice is often thought to be Del.icio.us. Regardless of which came first, who copied whom, and what really constitutes a social bookmarking service, it?s occasionally a topic of interest what site stands where on the list of the largest. For those who wish to know, eBizMBA has laid out a tally of the top 20.
It probably comes [...]