Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’

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.
I woke up today to hear the news of FriendFeed rolling out the beta version to everyone. Once I opened the lifestreaming service I realized something was wrong with the [...]

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.
As an example O’Reilly used Facebook application SuperPoke to demonstrate that [...]

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.
The first two (those [...]

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.
Unfortunately now that I watch web 2.0 as an industry I often notice classical examples of crowd thinking here where people who are [...]

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 [...]

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.
Basically what WhozAround? does [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
I have several I've been waiting on since the beginning of the year, and like any early adopter magpie, when I see the shiny new invitation in [...]