Posts Tagged with ‘Wired’

Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz over yet another acquisition in the blogging world with one-man blog Bankaholic purchased by BankRate financial information website and service provider for reported $15 million (with $2.5 million to be paid over the next 12 months if certain conditions are met).
The irony of the announcement is that the overall financial climate in the country does not seem to be favorable for any acquisitions at all - especially those that don’t seem to be backed by [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb had statistics from Yahoo on the wonders they've done in feeding pageviews to the featured sites, with success stories listed as Salon.com, The Smoking Gun, [...]

Is it the end of old media as we know it?* R.E.M. has a new album dropping 1 April, but for those of us already using iLike with iTunes or our Facebook or MySpace accounts, we are in luck; 11 tracks from the album will be available for streaming and sharing a week from today (Monday, 24 March), one week before the album's release date.
R.E.M.'s release may be the highest profile use of digital distribution yet, and the surest sign [...]

To increase the footprint of Google's AdWords service from online advertising to print advertising, the search engine giant is relying on a new implementation of barcode technology. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Google is placing high expectations on small, square barcodes (as seen in the image at left) to be strategically placed at the bottom of print ads. These barcodes can then be scanned by a reader with a compatible camera phone, which would then instantly direct their phone's [...]

The evolutionary gem known as the blog has come a long way since its official origin back in the mid ‘90s. Jorn Barger, dubbed the designer of the term “weblog” (and it’s definition), claims to have started the trend – now a phenomenon of global proportions – by assembling a daily catalogue of links amassed from “travels across the Web.” How interesting, then, it is to find that, some 10 years since its basic introduction, the core of the concept [...]

If you recall the spread of stories way back when about TorrentSpy and all those seemingly mixed signals being sent from the site to its users about whether or not it was safe to venture there anymore (after rumors abounded about alleged records of visitors IPs being kept and forcefully transferred to the lovely folk over at the MPAA), you?re likely aware of the many still unanswered questions floating about the blogosphere about the torrent-site-vs-Big-Media battle waged oh-so-unscrupulously in weeks [...]

While we at Profy try to keep things as clean and all-members-of-the-family-friendly as possible in our coverage and analysis, we do come across topics on occasion that we have trouble vetting for vulgarities. Especially when a product or creation in and of itself carries with it some non-child-compatible language. So just as a warning, our foul-language firewall will be put into temporary retirement for this piece.
Web 2.0, as you all know quite well already, is a world of awesome. AJAX, [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.
Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue [...]