Let’s try to parse this. Pirate Bay (.se) user allisfine just recently uploaded a torrent to the site that is a collection of all the magnet identifiers for the entire site (actually, only about a quarter of the site, but all the publicly visible ones). That is to say, it is a list of...
Got FOMO? (That’s “fear of missing out” for those of you who don’t do slang.) There will soon be an app for that, or so says the $3.4 million in angel funding the stealthy D.C.-area startup called timeRAZOR has raised. In its pre-launch state, the curious company is already lining up brand partnerships with...
Google is reportedly aware of and working to fix a major security issue relating to its Google Wall service on rooted Android phones. Updated with Google’s response below. A video posted by Zvelo (via 9to5Google) shows the PIN verification system on rooted devices that carry Google wallet can be cracked using an app that is freely...
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012 In what is surely a labor of love, Dan Rowinski combs through the mass of apps released each month and highlights the best for you. This month we have added a few staff picks, so you can see picks from several ReadWriteWeb staffers too. From...
FIIIINALLY! Google released a Chrome beta for Android! GODDDDD. What took them so long? All the Ice Cream Sandwich users have been waiting, like, FOREVER! Finally, Tweetbot for iPad came out. I’ve only been asking them for, like, EIGHT MONTHS! Jeez. Apple fiiiinally released iTunes Match after a whole month, and it didn’t even...
MVF, a hack created by Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld, blew up last week, giving thousands of Twitter users the opportunity to indulge in who their most popular follower was. The Web app went viral and got tons of press, signaling just how important this sort of information can be to users, and perhaps signals that sites like...
As a PR person, product developer, CEO or whatever, you’re probably more interested in getting noticed by the media than developing a relationship with a particular writer. That’s one way to go about it. Then there’s that old-fashioned “building a relationship with a real person not a robot” idea. You know, treating people like...
I’m not sure when the last time I hit “inbox zero” on Gmail was, but it was a while ago. If you’re one of the lucky souls who gets to clear out their inbox, you might see an interesting filler message from Google where your email used to show. The eagle-eyed Google Operating System...
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Who needs an awards show to tell us what movies and actors fans prefer when we have Twitter? In yet another partnership with the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, IBM is turning its skills in social-media sentiment analysis to Hollywood awards so the world can see which movies and stars are generating the most buzz...