Can’t get in the club? Just dress like a DJ.
March 26, 2008
Watch the genius of two guys as they roll around England pretending to be “the DJ” and getting into all kinds of places…ya… they don’t stop at just clubs.
Watch the genius of two guys as they roll around England pretending to be “the DJ” and getting into all kinds of places…ya… they don’t stop at just clubs.
TorrentFreak writes “BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI, torrent sites continue to grow traffic wise, and there is no sign that this trend will be brought to a halt anytime soon…. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular sites on the Internet.” TorrentFreak (according to Alexia data) lists the Top 25 Torrent Sites of March as follows:
| Rank # | Torrent Site | Alexa Rank (Dec 07) | Alexa Rank (Mar 08) | Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | mininova.org | 63 | 53 | + 19 % |
| 2. | ThePirateBay.org | 182 | 130 | + 40 % |
| 3. | isohunt.com | 170 | 147 | + 16 % |
| 4. | Torrentz.com | 231 | 192 | + 20 % |
| 5. | BtJunkie.org | 689 | 469 | + 47 % |
| 6. | torrentspy.com | 376 | 585 | - 36 % |
| 7. | TorrentReactor.net | 909 | 616 | + 48 % |
| 8. | GamesTorrents.com | 942 | 641 | + 47 % |
| 9. | TorrentPortal.com | 699 | 697 | no change |
| 10. | btmon.com | 924 | 743 | + 24 % |
| 11. | sumotorrent.com | 1,894 | 1,101 | + 72 % |
| 12. | myBittorrent.com | 1,861 | 1,454 | + 28 % |
| 13. | animesuki.com | 1,738 | 1,473 | + 18 % |
| 14. | Fulldls.com | 1,448 | 1,646 | - 12 % |
| 15. | bitdig.com | 5,805 | 1,945 | + 300 % |
| 16. | torrentz.ws | 7,990 | 1,991 | + 400 % |
| 17. | newtorrents.info | 3,348 | 2,272 | + 47 % |
| 18. | Torrent-Finder.com | 3,404 | 2,635 | + 29 % |
| 19. | TorrentBox.com | 2,812 | 2,686 | + 5 % |
| 20. | Fenopy.com | 3,102 | 2,901 | + 7 % |
| 21. | torrentvalley.com | 5,276 | 3,014 | + 75 % |
| 22. | youtorrent.com | … | 3,107 | New! |
| 23. | TorrentReactor.to | 3,016 | 3,313 | - 9 % |
| 24. | www.zoozle.org | 4,669 | 3,369 | + 39 % |
| 25. | www.seedpeer.com | 3,992 | 3,449 | + 16 % |
Looks like MySpace is trying to play catch up to the MASSIVE lead Facebook has in this area by *finally* adding support for mobile browsing of their site and 3rd party apps/gadgets/widgets.
Just like the website version, MySpace Mobile also allows reading and send bulletins, accessing of MySpace message, approving friend requests, viewing of photos, searching for other users, posting comments, blogging, and checking out friends profiles. To access MySpace Mobile, users simply need to type m.myspace.com on their phone browsers to visit the website. Ho hum in my opinion. I don’t like looking at shitty MySpace “profiles” and their horrible layouts on my PC why would I want to subject my mobile phone to that?
Recently, MySpace started showing off its new gallery of third-party applications that users can now start adding to their profiles and to their MySpace home pages. So here they are again attempting to play catchup (feature-wise… MySpace is still the largest social site on the net) with Facebook. Most of the apps have issus, but to be fair this is still “beta” (which in the web 2.0 world means generally available but not expected to work).
Direct via Cultcase.com are the Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services. I’ve personally used Vixy (just this week in fact) and find online conversion services to be awesome. They’re probably slower than using a thick client, but the convenience of not having to install additional software to convert video, or grab flash from the web to store locally is just awesome.
Most online video platforms such as Youtube, MySpace and Metacafe use Flash video streaming (.flv) rather than simple links to files we can download. There are various reasons for that with the main one being the common business model most of those services relay on: advertising. In other words - we get to watch the content for free but we need to do that online and on the site. While this may be serving well the interests of the service provider it might not always be how we want things to go: some of us want to archive our own copies of the videos we love. Others may want to transfer a certain movie from one website to another. Well, this is the time to let you know that you don’t have to be “on Youtube” to watch a Youtube movie. Instead, you can download the video stream to your computer, keep it there as a “normal” video file and watch it whenever you like. Nothing is illegal or fishy about it, it is simply another way of consuming the data. Just like you do when you save an html page to your computer and read it later.
So, for your convenience, CultCase has selected some of the best online video conversion services available today. They are all free of charge and do not even require registration. They tested all of them by converting and downloading the same 1:42 min Youtube video. There were no significant differences between the services in terms of both time-to-deliver and video quality. All of the files looked reasonable considering the quality of the source and took approximately 1-2 minutes to delivery. Read the rest of this entry �