Reverse Engineering TechMeme
OK, OK, since everyone has figured out that you can get on TechMeme by talking ABOUT TechMeme (even better if you attack A-list bloggers) I figured I'd just take my late night and reverse engineer Tec...
How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling
Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it's not a Comca...
Online Video: NBC pulls YouTube channel
NBC pulls YouTube channel — NBC Universal has quietly pulled theofficial channel on YouTube the two companies established last June. Of course, that was a long time ago, in Internet years, and the ...
How Many Web Site Hits? Depends Who's Counting
How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhap...
Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer
Like most publications, here at TorrentFreak we regularly interview adults. However, when a recent conversation with a child turned to file-sharing, we took the opportunity to give the P2P kids a voi...
Facebook stats for Ireland - 131,660 Ireland based people on it now?
From location Ireland we get the below stats. Remember too that these are stats on what people …
New betas of Mobipocket Reader available
Mobipocket has a new Beta of the Mobipocket Reader 6.0 for Blackberry. This new beta version is available on Mobipocket's beta pages or you can download it directly with your Blackberry browser from ...
MySpace slips to middle-of-road as Facebook surges ahead
MYSPACE, the website that redefined the meaning of friends in cyberspace, is showing signs of fatigue, with latest figures indicating that Australians - or at least hip ones - are deserting it for riv...
Google. Who's looking at you?
It wants to know everything about you. It wants to be your best friend — or your Big Brother. Are your secrets safe with Google? — John Arlidge — In the blissed-out California sunshine, the glis...
Powerset Testing Search Results At Mechanical Turk
A reader noticed that stealth search engine Powerset is using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service to gauge user reactions to search results. — See the screen shot (click for larger view) - users are sh...
The culture of infallibility inhibits newspaper innovation
Yesterday at the closing panel of the Online News Association conference, Anil Dash and Josh Cohn of Google talked about the newspaper industry's failure to embrace change. — Anil made this astute o...
Google's Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues
Google's acquisition of Jaiku, a small Finnish start-up active in the obscure field of microblogging — a word most often associated with the better-known company Twitter — might not appear to be an ea...
What if Microsoft wasn't a screwup?
I had coffee with a friend last week who is ex-MSFT. He follows my blog and asked why I hadn't posted recently. I told him that I'd actually penned three different posts but decided not to publish a...
More Distribution and Visibility
In an effort to continue providing new ways to distribute your applications, we're making the Application Directory and app "about" pages available to people who are not logged in. We are also enabli...