When I moved into my new apartment I brought with me a 1TB Time Capsule that I was previously using as a network storage device because my old roommate already had a Linksys router. None of my new roommates had routers, so I decided to use […] Read more »
Break out the Creatine and your old Soloflex — high-action and even higher octane rev up TorrentFreak’s list of the Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent this week. Fast and Furious holds on to the top spot while a shirtless Jason Statham keeps his pirates Cranked. Not […] Read more »
Man, it is Oprah’s world and we are just livin’ in it. According to Trendrr, the queen of daytime TV continued to dominate Twitter chatter last week, and will probably continue to do so if she keeps using the micro-blogging service during the show like she […] Read more »
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As widely reported last week, Oprah stormed onto the Twitter-verse on Friday (IN ALL CAPS) and instantly dominated (she already has more than 450,000 followers). Since she wasn’t on for a full week, Trendrr separated out the Oprah stats, but she was tweeted more than 23,000 […] Read more »
Just when you thought the Twitter-verse couldn’t get any more vapid — BAM! — MTV’s The Hills creeps in to become one of most-Tweeeted TV shows last week, according to Trendrr. Kanye West’s gay fish gave South Park a boost and Saturday Night Live finished the […] Read more »
SNIKT! The illicit copy of the upcoming summer blockbuster Wolverine, err, clawed (< — sorry!) its way to the top of TorrentFreak’s Read more »
I don’t watch American Idol, so I’m not sure if there was some big scandalous upset last week, but something on the talent competition had the Twitterati rushing to cram urgent thoughts into 140 characters or less, giving the show its biggest tweet count on Trendrr‘s […] Read more »
Newsiness was the name of the game in this week’s list of the most-Twittered TV shows, according to Trendrr. The Battlestar Galactica series finale enjoyed a nice bump after that opaque ending (probably with most fans tweeting: “What the frak? Angels?”). Elsewhere, President Obama’s historic appearance […] Read more »
Jimmy Fallon’s talk show debut helped him get a nice social media spike last week, as Trendrr reports that there were nearly 6,000 tweets about the show — though with more than 250,000 people following the late night noob, you would think more people would buzz […] Read more »
As you might expect, the Oscars buzz moved beyond the red carpet and onto Twitter last night, racking up over 100,000 tweets, according to Trendrr (how many of them were about that silly “the musical is back!” number?) As American Idol becomes less about a parade […] Read more »
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Why Being a Hit on iTunes Isn’t So Great; Robert Seidman looks at the economics of being number one at Apple’s download store and find there just isn’t enough there yet. (TVbytheNumbers) FYI Signs Six-Figure Watchmen Promo Deal; deal includes integration into three episodes of Kyle […] Read more »
Saturday Night Live showed that it still has some social media mojo, finishing out the week with lots of Tweets on Trendrr’s list of the Most Twittered Broadcast TV Shows. Heroes and American Idol made strong showings while Family Guy finished on a high note to […] Read more »
The Grammys found gold on Twitter last night, with nearly 27,500 people buzzing about winners and losers. Heck, the official Grammy site had its own Twitter feed going (a poor stand-in for not live-streaming the event). As has been the case for a few weeks with […] Read more »
Although I’m not privy to actual sales numbers, I find it hard to believe that there are many people out there buying QuickTime Pro. Yes, the extra features come in handy, but you can’t find anything there that isn’t available in other, more “free” programs like […] Read more »
We’ve got a ton of TV-related Twitter action this week, and surprise, surprise, Trendrr says the Super Bowl (or “superbowl” for the character-limit conscious) reigned supreme, with everyone tweeting about the exciting game. Unfortunately, all those bummed Arizona fans threw off Trendrr’s charts a little as […] Read more »
Johan Pouwelse is a busy man. The P2P researcher based in the city of Delft, in the Netherlands, is heading up development of the social BitTorrent client Tribler; he’s also deeply involved with the EU’s P2P Next project, which aims to use P2P streaming for an […] Read more »
The problem with tracking the top-Twittered broadcast TV shows is that some programs have rather common names. Case in point: When people Twitter about “Lost” they could be talking about the popular TV show, or how they can’t find their keys. In compiling this week’s list, […] Read more »
The Twitter-verse worships an American Idol, as the popular singing contest/parade of trainwrecks returning to oldteevee dominated the micro-blogging service for the first part of the week ending January 20, according to Trendrr. However, when you take out Idol skewing the graph, you see that CSI, […] Read more »
Heroes lost some of its power on Trendrr‘s list of the top Twittered broadcast TV shows for the week ending Jan. 13, down from the 2,000 tweets a day it was getting before the new year. Gossip Girl got some of its social mojo back to […] Read more »
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) fans were caught by surprise this week when NIN mastermind Trent Reznor dropped by the band’s web site to announce that 405 GB of HD live footage somehow found its way online. The raw HD recordings, which document three of the band’s […] Read more »
After a holiday break, the StatShot is back, bringing you interesting numbers from around the NewTeeVee-verse. Trendrr‘s graph of the top Twittered TV shows for the week of Dec. 30 – Jan. 6 shows remained largely the same — but for the first time since we’ve […] Read more »
Because Heroes continues to dominate the Top Twittered TV shows (is alliteration a bad thing?), stat provider Trendrr also showed us what the chart looks like without Hiro et al hogging all the Tweets (both versions below). Family Guy made a bit of a comeback, but […] Read more »
As you might expect, after dominating the weekly charts of the biggest DVR audiences, Grey’s Anatomy finds itself as the show with the biggest DVR audience this season to date (ending on Nov. 30). The rest of the top 10 doesn’t hold any surprises (House, The […] Read more »
In a letter to shareholders, BitTorrent has announced that the $17 million in venture funding the company raised back in September has been greatly reduced, according to a report in TechCrunch. Evidently DAG Ventures, which led that latest round, was unhappy with what it was seeing. […] Read more »
We’re adding a new data point to the StatShot this week. Trendrr will be providing a weekly snapshot of the most Twittered broadcast TV shows. Trendrr is an online service that tracks and graphs consumption trends across social networks, blogs, torrents, Amazon, Craigslist, Twitter, Google News […] Read more »
Whither BitTorrent? The company is picking itself up and putting itself back together after recent exec departures and layoffs. And it has finally shed its consumer business, the download store that had helped kicked off Hollywood’s last few years of digital dealmaking, but never did much […] Read more »
The Internet is close to a meltdown, according to The Register. The culprit, according to author Richard Bennett, is the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, which introduced a new type of file transfer with its most recent alpha version. BitTorrent clients have long been using the TCP […] Read more »
The popular BitTorrent client, uTorrent, is now available for Macs. Read more »
The Dark Knight continues to cast its vengeful shadow over BitTorrent, according to TorrentFreak, staying on as the most popular pirated movie. Other than that — there was only one new addition to the top 10 list: Elegy, a smaller film starring Ben Kingsley that came […] Read more »
According to TorrentFreak, The Dark Knight was the most pirated movie of 2008. Ummm, hooray? Somehow I doubt Warner Bros. will include that stat on the DVD packaging. The movie’s been on and off the list of top BitTorrented films throughout the summer as people took […] Read more »
Commercial P2P, we hardly knew ye: The recent shake-up at BitTorrent Inc., which consisted of replacing its CEO, losing its president and firing half of its workforce, has fueled speculation that P2P as a B2C business model is dead. Paul Glazowski mused the other day that, […] Read more »
Updated. BitTorrent, after losing its president and co-founder Ashwin Navin, has laid off more of its staff. We don’t know the extent of the cuts or whom they affect, but we do know they include Lily Lin, the company’s director of communications. Lin confirmed to us […] Read more »
BitTorrent, Inc. co-founder Ashwin Navin is leaving his post as president of the company to form a new venture with a group of other tech executives that includes Steve Chen of YouTube. Navin announced the news via email and said he would remain with BitTorrent in a new role as board director. Read more »
Hollywood spoof Tropic Thunder stormed to the top of TorrentFreak’s list of the most BitTorrented movies last week, bringing with it some other newcomers, including WALL-E and the colon-heavy trio of The Chronic(what!)cles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the TV movie Futurama: Bender’s Game. Read more »
New was the name of the game over on TorrentFreak’s list of the most BitTorrented movies last week, as six of the ten top films were first-timers. Speaking of firsts, this is the first time in a while that the list only has one superhero movie […] Read more »
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send […] Read more »
Vuze Inc. is introducing version 4.0 of its BitTorrent client later this week in an effort to both win back hardcore P2P users and broaden the overall user base of the file sharing protocol. Vuze 4.0 features a completely revamped interface, a new (and actually pretty […] Read more »
“The biggest disappointment of the night”: Entertainment Weekly had some harsh words for this week’s installment of Heroes. The second episode of the show’s new season only clocked about 6 million viewers, following a season premiere that was down almost 30 percent. But Heroes seems to […] Read more »
Comcast submitted a detailed description its ongoing network management practices in a filing with the FCC last night (PDF download), revealing that it has been testing controversial network management technologies since May of 2005. Read more »
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send […] Read more »
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