Bittorrent has become pretty popular as an efficient, decentralized way of distributing large files, and now the same technology is being applied to streaming. P2P-Next is working on an experimental .tstream format that will share streaming video using a minimum of bandwidth. It works like a reg…

It’s no secret that humans use peer to peer software like BitTorrent or Lime Wire to download copyrighted movies, music, and software. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t valid uses for the technology. Next date you need to explain to your ISP that while you’ve been using massive amounts of bandw…

Perhaps it’s a blatant F.U. to substance creators everywhere or possibly it’s just an F.U. to Rockstar, but the Pirate Bay has gone out of its way to temporarily rename itself “Liberty Bay” in honor of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV.

The purpose for the publicity stunt is unclear, but — co…

Now that YouTorrent is exclusively committed to boring, legal torrents, you might be looking for another BitTorrent search engine that searches a large number of BitTorrent trackers. LOOKTorrent fits the bill. Kind of.

The site lets you choose from a list of 25 BitTorrent trackers that you wa…

Sony’s associate music store has been around a fair while, in fact, a fair while longer than perhaps some of us expected. Sony — a company once so effective and successful in portable music — cooked up the associate service as a response to Apple’s all-powerful iTunes Store. The plan was a sto…

Springnote is a supreme browser based note taking system. You can forget about the standard text only inputs that many online note tools offer, that application has the ability to drop in images, attach files and organize layout at will. Its wiki style note taking system allows pages of composit…

We broke the news the beginning of that year that Yahoo! was engaged preparing a complete rebuild of Messenger made exclusively for Windows Vista users. The ground up rebuild has taken fairly a distant duration (11 months), but it’s finally here.

Yahoo! Messenger for Vista is officially avail…

certain, YouTube and other online video sharing sites are great whether you want to show your domestic movies off to the entire world. But what whether you just want your mom to see the first videos of her grandson walking, without putting your baby’s image out there for the whole world to see?
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In what appears to be a continuing trend, popular BitTorrent site Demonoid, has shut down. Again. On November 9, 2007, the site went dark, displaying nothing increasingly than a cryptic letter that seems to say, “the fuzz turned up the heat on our landlord and we had to bail.”

It’s a sad, sad…

Meebo, the web-based instant messaging service, has announced that they will be powering Channel Chat across Joost’s Net video platform.

Joost provides by 15000 shows from 250 Channels. Meebo will allow anyone watching a show or channel to chat with other viewers, or to chat with society with…