By Phil Butler on May 20, 2008 in commentary, social networks | 1 Comment
Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whether the subject is super informative news or simply some refined spam, [...]
By Phil Butler on Apr 12, 2008 in Featured, technology | 4 Comments
An interesting aspect of Web 2.0 and all the hundreds of startups that sprung up as a result of it, is that so many have failed. Even more interesting is the fact that a few of the really fantastic ones are still progressing even without proper funding. I have seen so many millions of dollars [...]
By Phil Butler on Dec 10, 2007 in Featured, education | 0 Comments
My friends over at MyQuire just notified me that they have announced their 2007 winner of the Rapid Grant initiative they started. This $5,000 grant is to be awarded to Redemption - a non-profit organization that increases educational advancement possibilities for under-served youths between 13 and 19. The Brooklyn, New York organization headed by tiffany [...]
By Phil Butler on Nov 21, 2007 in search, technology | 2 Comments
I had another talk with Barney Pell - founder and former CEO of Powerset today. I had written a post earlier this month on Profy about my perception of the recent management changes, and was anxious to talk about Powerset’s progress. Powerset is one of the most promising new search engines which I have covered [...]