Category: Websites
Italian Pirate Bay traffic goes up, staff drink bottle of rum to celebrate
All publicity is good publicity, or so the saying goes – and it might just be right. Apparently since the Italian government banned BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay the other day, the site has seen a 5% increase in hits coming from Italy…
SPOILER ALERT: Twitter upsets American Olympics fans
Michael Phelps is officially the greatest Olympian ever, scoring eight gold medals in one Olympic Games – something which has never before been achieved. Unfortunately, a tonne of Americans were pissed off over the weekend due to “spoilers” released by CNN Breaking News, and its unofficial Twitter feed (cnnbrk)…
BBC to put Top Gear on YouTube. Let's hope Richard Hammond doesn't crash your browser.
Some say that his 19th century views on environmentalism and global warming are pushing millions of viewers down the path of climate change scepticism, and some say that his incendiary views are designed to cause a stir and causes people like me to write about them… all we know is that he’s called Jeremy Clarkson.
If you’re a fan of party-political broadcasts for the Conservative party presented by ill-informed controversialists who probably do actually use the phrase “political correctness gone mad” without irony, then you’ll be delighted to hear that the BBC has launched a Top Gear YouTube channel.
HoffSpace – Hasselhoff rolls his own social network
MySpace is over. It’s official. David Hasselhoff has declared that he’s abandoning the world’s second biggest social network in favour of HoffSpace – a social network of his very own…
Get closer to the stars with William Shatner's new Video Autograph company
It seems the bloke from the All-Bran Bran Flakes adverts is doing really well for himself. William Shatner, an actor famous for introducing the Kellogg's 'Yoghurty' cereal to unsuspecting members of the British public, was so inundated by requests for his autograph from eager breakfast-food fans that he has set up a company offering them a multimedia autograph experience as an alternative to boring 'pen on paper' autographs.
Shatner, also a sci-fi actor from the television series 'Star Trek' (whatever that is), has established a company called 'Live Autographs' with some non-famous business partners to offer a radical new twist to the celebrity name-scribble market: Notably, personalised video recordings filmed by the star of your choice to a request of your choice.
The idea is simple enough: You get a celebrity's face and voice recording whatever you want them to say. Want Shat' to sing you Happy Birthday whilst crossing his eyes and flapping his wig? Done. Want Carmen Electra to tell you her favourite Star Trek episode whilst crossing her eyes and flapping her … eyelashes? No problem. And how much is it gonna set you back? Just $149. Bargainus.
Snooze your email with HitMeLater
HitMeLater is an interesting web service that helps you to sort out your email. If you don’t have, or don’t use, flagging or starring functions in your email client, then you might find this service useful…
Top 10 alternative Twitter clients
Yesterday Twitter annoyed thousands of its UK users by dropping the SMS text message notification feature for UK users, citing money woe as the reason behind it. But don’t despair, Twitterati! There are many other ways to feed your Twitter addiction, rather than just via the web or SMS, so here’s our Top 10 alternative Twitter clients…
eBay Nutcase of the Week: Woman sells cheating husband's condom wrapper and "the tart's knickers"
A spurned wife is currently selling a photograph of a pair of knickers she found in her bed, along with a “small” condom wrapper her husband foolishly left behind as evidence of his adultery.
The angry lady’s listing originally offered the actual knickers, but was taken down due to eBay laws regarding the selling of used underwear. An eBay spokesman said “We let her know about the policy and instead she’s now selling a photograph of the offending knickers…”
Wikia Search – another search engine trying to take on Google
Another week, another search engine trying to take Google on. This time it’s Wikia Search. It’s the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and he’s been speaking about his people-powered search engine at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore.
The Radiopaq Rp5 – unchain your internet radio
The internet radio agreggators over at Radiopaq have decided that they’re bored of being trapped inside your computers and have today launched a new Wi-Fi DAB radio to stream all the music stations and all the podcasts you need straight to wherever you and your sexy new gadget are…
