Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry — For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” have been circling …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Zynga Becoming A Trademark Bully: Threatens Blingville For Daring To Use ‘ville’ — Zynga is really building up quite a reputation as a trademark bully lately. The company, which also has a reputation for copying everyone else, got into a legal fight last year after it copied the name …
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Senator who opposes antipiracy bill under pressure? — Supporters of an antipiracy bill introduced into the Senate last year appear ready to put some pressure on one of the legislation’s chief opponents. — Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, was instrumental in blocking …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Wintel: Le Divorce — The eponymous flick is mildly interesting, but we’re gathered here today to examine the Wintel breakup. After years of monogamy with the x86 architecture, Windows will soon run on ARM processors. — As in any divorce, Microsoft and Intel point fingers at one another.
Chris Herbert / MacStories:
Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X — Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2). Last night, I even found a Safari extension that did the same thing but also adds …
Chris Herbert / MacStories:
Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X — Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2). Last night, I even found a Safari extension that did the same thing but also adds …
Pete Warden / ReadWriteHack:
Secrets of BackType’s Data Engineers — How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day? I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they built a service relied upon by companies like bit.ly, Hunch and The New York Times.
Pete Warden / ReadWriteWeb:
Secrets of BackType’s Data Engineers — How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day? I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they built a service relied upon by companies like bit.ly, Hunch and The New York Times.
Royal Pingdom:
Internet 2010 in numbers — What happened with the Internet in 2010? — How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place.
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner — Hot on the heels of participating in the mammoth 0 million funding round of Groupon, venture capital firm Greylock Partners announced named Frank Slootman, the former CEO of Data Domain, now part of EMC, as a partner.