Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase. There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have [...]

Steven Hodson has an excellent post today that talks about the financial divide in technology, something that a lot of the Web 2.0 crowd forgets is even there. Posts pop up from time to time discussion the Web 2.0 bubble, but it's really a word with a double meaning. One is the reference to the [...]

Web users have very unusual criteria for establishing the validity of websites.  Flashy web designs, original images, well-written content and even give-aways can sway a viewer's opinion from a bad position to a good one, or vice versa.  One of the more peculiar phenominons in regards to internet navigation is what draws users to click [...]

In spite of the recent upswing in early adopters using social media sites like Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed to improve their businesses, a shockingly high number of companies are getting left behind as they refuse to embrace this new technology. Stuck in a rut based in misunderstanding, they cut employees off from the online world, [...]

Being able to watch television programming on the internet is a wonderful thing. Many of the big networks like ABC, NBC, Fox, etc. have already started uploading television content directly to the internet for users who don't mind watching programming on their computer screens. Of course, that puts cable providers in a bit of a [...]