Blogging Apple Kills a Blog; Let's Keep it in Context, Though Today is a sad day. Plucky college kid Nick Ciarelli has agreed to close down his Apple rumor blog, Think Secret. Ciarelli has been publishing the site since he was 13, under the name Nick dePlume. Apple filed a lawsuit in January 2005 to try and force Ciarelli to disclose his source inside the company for pre-announcement news. Think Secret… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Trends Meetup: The Secret Campaign Weapon? Web metrics firm Compete released their latest "Candidate FaceTime" metric yesterday, which measures how many hours people are spending across the social networking profiles of US presidential candidates. Not surprisingly, Ron Paul continues to dominate all candidates, while Barack Obama leads the pack among Democrats. The biggest surprise is the… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews 2500 Hulu Invites for ReadWriteWeb Readers The folks over at Hulu have made 2500 invites available for the closed beta of the Hulu service for ReadWriteWeb readers. Hulu is a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal that puts popular television content from those companies online. It's ad supported (via pre and mid-roll ads) and the videos are quite high quality. Popular… Josh Catone View comments
News BitTorrent Site Loses Court Case for "Destroying Evidence" Popular BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy lost a copyright case brought against it in a US cought by the Motion Picture Association of America by default for destroying evidence, reports the BBC. The site's operator's apparently ignored an order to keep server logs of the IP addresses of people who facilitated the trading of files via the site. Josh Catone View comments
2007 in Review Internet TV: 2007 Year in Review From YouTube’s continued dominance, the television networks’ newfound willingness to experiment online, the rise of the desktop Internet TV application, and a number of new PC-to-TV devices and set-top boxes — it’s been a big year for Internet TV in all shapes and forms. In this post we look back at 2007 through the lens of… Steve O'Hear, last100 editor View comments