First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show
Lately, we’ve been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency, with the 2010 Olympics seeming to be one of the first big global events where both viewers and media publicly recognized the power and potential of carrying an event like that online.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/first-legal-streaming-super-bowl-a-success-but-audience-still-denied-the-real-show/
A Super Social Bowl
You could have watched the Super Bowl without checking Twitter or Facebook, but you probably snuck at least a few peeks in throughout the game. And a lot of you ended up typing something, too.
Bluefin Labs, a “social TV” startup that analyzes commentary during TV broadcasts, says it saw 11.5 million comments during tonight’s game. That’s up more than 6x over last year’s broadcast.
http://allthingsd.com/20120205/a-super-social-bowl/
Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in one place
Best Buy as part of a promo has started the run of tech-focused Super Bowl ads with a segment pitching its mobile stores. The ad unites both the inventors of phone technology, such as Philippe Kahn (the camera phone) and Ray Kurzweil (text to voice synthesis) with those making newer hardware and software. Key inventors behind Instagram, Shazam, Square, Words With Friends, and others find their way into the 30-second clip.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/05/best.buy.kicks.off.tech.driven.super.bowl.ads/#ixzz1lcCQHHzX
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent indexes on the Internet, has decided to shut down voluntarily today. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision that takes out one the main players in the BitTorrent landscape.
http://torrentfreak.com/btjunkie-shuts-down-for-good-120206/
Facebook’s Mobility Challenge
Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/technology/facebooks-mobility-challenge.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Redbox Partners With Verizon To Launch Streaming Video Service
Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service. The joint venture will launch in second half of 2012 and be a subscription-based and “affordable service that will allow all consumers across the U.S. to enjoy the new and popular entertainment they want, whenever they choose, using the media and devices they prefer,” the companies said in a statement.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1814308/redbox-verizon-partners-coinstar-streaming-service-netflix-competitor
The Secret Google X Lab May Be Revealed Today (Feb 6), As “Solve For x” Website And YouTube Channel Go Live [Video]
The veil of secrecy surrounding Google’s mysterious X lab may be getting pulled back later on today, as evident from new developments around the web in the last couple of days. The X lab, revealed by the New York Times a few months ago, could reportedly have engineers working on projects spanning from plates that post what you’re eating on your social networks to driverless cars, robots, and things most of us have never even dreamt of.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/06/the-secret-google-x-lab-may-be-revealed-today-feb-6-as-solve-for-x-website-and-youtube-channel-go-live-video/
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, ‘Where’s Our Cut?’
By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, owes me about $50.
Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapocalyptic movie “The Day After Tomorrow”: bleak, desolate and really quite sad. (OrMySpace, if that is easier to imagine.) Facebook surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it very well could be in its coming initial public offering.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/disruptions-facebook-users-ask-wheres-our-cut/
Busted By The FBI: The Life Of An Elite Teen BitTorrent Uploader
Releasers and torrent racers are the select few counted on by millions to bring the latest movies, music and video games to the wider Internet in record time. One such person, a 15-year-old school kid, eventually gained access to elite piracy sites and went on to become the top uploader on one of the world’s most famous BitTorrent trackers. But how did the buzz of the elite compare to being hunted down by a Patriot Act-empowered FBI?
http://torrentfreak.com/busted-by-the-fbi-the-life-of-an-elite-teen-bittorrent-uploader-120204/
