BitTorrent trackers have endured a fair share of copyright related troubles in the past, but this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any copyright holders who have a positive view towards file sharing. Lithuanian studio Iron Cat is living proof of this, which, in an unusual move, chose BitTorrent tracker Linkomanija to become the official distributor of its […]

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With the world getting a whole lot smaller thanks to the Internet, you’d think that managing a work force across the miles would be a lot easier today. But technology hasn’t moved as quickly in this field to enable true collaboration that incorporates indoor positioning. Qubulus, based in Malmo, Sweden, believes it has the solution […]

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We’ve covered various paper grids intended for web designers before, but this Ad Book from Gridbooks has a unique spin. The grids are set up for various IAB-standard banner ad sizes, and each purchase comes with the Photoshop and Illustrator templates required to scan your pages in and adjust the sketches to the right dimensions […]

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News broke out last week that the Playstation Network has been compromised and user information including names, passwords, addresses have been stolen. While Sony doesn’t believe that any credit card information was stolen, hackers claim they have it. According to The New York Times, security researchers said that they had seen discussions and comments on underground Internet […]

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Since its inception, Facebook has been dominating one country after another until it faced a huge roadblock, which is China. It’s a bit unfortunate for the social network that the country has the world’s biggest Internet and mobile population. Yet as appealing as it sounds, doing business there is no cake walk. AllThingsD reports that despite all […]

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Revelations that both iPhones and Android phones store location data in unencrypted form has caused quite the stir over the last week, but if you were one of those contributing your outrage to the uproar, wait until you hear what TomTom has been doing with your GPS data. In an apparent effort to avoid the […]

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The largest design crowdsourcing site, 99designs, today announced that it has received $35 million in funding led by Accel Partners. Angel investors include Michael Dearing (eBay), Stewart Butterfield (Flickr), Dave Goldberg (Survey Monkey) and Anthony Casalena (Squarespace). The company, which was founded in Melbourne in 2008, was a bootstrapped effort that was profitable before taking […]

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With the upcoming $1.5 billion to $2 billion IPO of Yandex, certainly the biggest tech IPO we would have seen in a while, the Russian search giant got a fair amount of attention lately. The Times published an (somewhat boring) interview with the founder, the blogosphere commented en masse on this story. Some bloggers wondered […]

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September is suddenly here, and I, for one, have been looking forward in my diary to see what key events are taking place that I should attend - and The Future of Web Apps Expo, in London, October 8-10, certainly looks like a must.The line-up of speakers includes Jason Calcanis, Kevin Rose, Kathy Sierra, Tim […]

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Ok, so I won’t start complaining about the Techmeme echo chamber or anything like that. I don’t even feel that way about the tech news aggregator. I just want to show how excited the blogosphere is about Google’s initiative to enter the browser market. Or.., no, let me make one suggestions. Maybe Techmeme should consider […]

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It must be a real pleasure when you’re a Google Maps developer and see some people taking your product to the next level. Like Jordi Ramot did. He’s a Spanish software engineer specializing in geospatial interoperability field and when he’s not behind his computer, he likes to be in the mountains hiking, back-country skiing or […]

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Bebo represents AOL’s hope to have a successful social network, just like the other big guys. Truth be told, Bebo is quite a large player. It has 40 million users and may call itself no.1 in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. In the US is has a respectable third place behind MySpace and Facebook. […]

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First of all, what a great domain name. Founders Keld van Schreven and Peter Brooke must have payed a stunning amount of money for diary.com. Right? Well, not exactly. Van Schreven told me that his partner owned it for years. Some Vietnamese hackers once stole it, but Brooke managed to get it back. Anyway, I’m […]

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Europe knows some language barriers, we all know that. Every time we compare the Valley with our continent, that’s the first thing which comes to our minds. But trying to break those barriers can be really worth it.Next Web team in ParisMy Next Web colleagues Patrick and Arjen plus I tried that in the beginning […]

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In an amazing turn of events Google seems to be working on their own open source version of a full fledged webbrowser. Although unconfirmed by Google the details presented by Google Blogoscoped are detailed and exciting.We will post more details as they come available but in the mean time go and visit Blogoscoped and check […]

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