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Sometimes I have a feeling that the entire web industry is full of hip and cool kids - no matter how old they are and how expensive their toys like iPhone and Apple MacBook Air are. Today’s example is the Talk Like A Pirate day that seems to be absolutely everywhere. |
Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’
Talk Like a Pirate Day: Will The Web Audience Ever Grow Up?
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on September 19, 2008
O’Reilly Realized Web 2.0 Should Be Useful But Will It Be?
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on September 19, 2008
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Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York Tim O’Reilly, the person who coined the term “web 2.0″ (and the organizer of the conference itself) made a very interesting statement during his keynote. He decided to finally tell out loud what many of us have been thinking for a while and had our concerns about: he said that internet should finally become useful and focused on producing real value. |
Welcome to a Busy Technology September
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on September 01, 2008
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Today we are having the first day of fall and no matter how sad it may be for some of us to welcome this rainy season, September will sure be a very exciting and busy month for everyone in the technology blogosphere. The main reason is that we are going to have four (!!!) major industry events this month with dozens of new projects launched and - hopefully - lots of interesting ideas and discussions to witness. |
Web 2.0 Industry As a Perfect Example of Crowd Thinking
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on August 30, 2008
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Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd is a very dangerous phenomenon because a crowd rarely can be reasonable and people can be easily manipulated to follow guidance from any leader clever enough to issue orders a crowd will understand. |
Why Do People Google “Internet”?
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on August 23, 2008
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Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word - “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same link they are actually on (and yes, Google is quite a popular search term) I thought that googling “internet” was equally amusing. After all, what [...] |
WhozAround Offers a Simpler Way to Plan Events with Friends
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on August 21, 2008
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Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Boulder. It is already possible to try out the Facebook application for WhozAround! (in alpha currently, beta promised to arrive soon) to see what this nice little tool is about. And since Susan has shared the information on the company’s blog already, I decided it would not harm them to give it a quick look here as well. |
Weighing Business Against Friendship: Exactly Why Is Facebook Valuated That Much Higher Than LinkedIn?
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on August 04, 2008
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Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to me the most interesting part in both stories is that if Eric's sources are correct, Facebook's internal valuation is now at $4 billion while that [...] |
Twitter and FriendFeed Leave No Chance for a Balanced News Consumption to a Technology Blogger
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on July 30, 2008
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Only yesterday morning, minutes before the earthquake in California, I talked to a blogging friend of mine on Skype and shared my concerns about a huge imbalance in my news consumption. The thing is that I have realized that I follow all (even minor) news related to everything in technology and web 2.0 - because of Profy, obviously. This results in my every moment online spent on some technology site or blog or some social network discussing the [...] |
An Alpha Is for Testing: Doing It All Wrong
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on July 29, 2008
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Here at Profy, we keep a running tab of which authors are going to write about which topics so that we don't all end up writing the same article. Most of the topics clear out rather quickly, but sometimes we end up waiting for months for a beta invite to review a new application. |
Cuil Launches – Good for Discovery and Surprises, Bad for Search
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on July 28, 2008
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Yesterday evening a new search engine was launched by a group of search experts (including two ex-Googlers) - Cuil is the name and the blogosphere is abuzz about weather it will kill Google. Honestly, I can never understand why we constantly expect every single new product to kill something that is strong in the particular niche already. Normally I hate that type of post titles - they sound to me like BMW is a Mercedes killer. And [...] |




