Archive for: October 17, 2007

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Napster dropped its Web-based functionality when it acquired AOL Music Now earlier this year. Well, that feature makes a welcome comeback in its latest version, Napster 4.0, which has a Web-based interface that allows you to stream music online, no client app needed. The software is still there if you want to use it, but you'll probably spend most of your time listening to Napster's 5-million-plus song library right from your browser. As great as that sounds, bugs, DRM protections on all songs, and other irritating limitations hurt Napster 4.0's appeal. Is it still worth using? Find out what the PC Magazine software team thought about Napster's latest upgrade in this in-depth review.

If you're tired of all of this social-networking nonsense, Hatebook might be the answer. Sure, it's a social network, but it's a social network dedicated to connecting you with new people to hate. Your visitors are called suckers, and you collect haters, not friends. People who comment on your profile send you warnings, and the eventual goal is to make enemies and take over the world.

Hatebook looks a lot likeFacebook. It's clean and fully featured, and the color scheme is red and white as opposed to Facebook's blue and white. Red is a passionate color, after all. On the front page, the Hatebook community encourages you to connect with the people you hate by uploading blackmail material, publishing lies, collecting gossip and hate points from the people who hate you back, and customizing your hate profile with photos and videos.

Hatebook has all of the features of a social networking service. You can customize your profile with video and photos, and you can invite friends to the service, add people to your enemies list (you even have a "homies" list for those folks who'll die last in your world takeover plan), add warnings to other people's profiles, and search for new people to hate. The community at Hatebook is pretty big, so you won't have much trouble finding someone in your area worth hating.

Hatebook, for all intents and purposes, is simply a parody of Facebook. But it's got its own community and its own users, so it works pretty well as its own social ...

There's something about the lives of celebrities that makes people obsessed. I'm not that type of person, but I admit that every now and again I like to know who Angelina is adopting and what Madonna is studying. For entertainment news provided by the community, check out ShowHype. ShowHype is a Digg-like social news site where the users and contributors provide the news and the community gets to vote on whether the story is worth reading. The site would be great if it stopped there, but there's more.

ShowHype is broken into three major parts. The front page contains all of the news submitted by the users. The Charts page tracks the most popular movies, television shows, and music. And the Community page is a place where users can create groups dedicated to specific celebrities and topics and discuss, interact, and submit stories.

All of the top stories are displayed on the front page, and users can vote on them from there. If you're interested in up-to-the minute entertainment news and celebrity gossip, this is where you'll spend most of your time. The news is broken out into multiple categories including the top stories, movie news, celebrity news, television news, and more. If you sign up for an account at ShowHype, you can rate the stories up or down depending on how you feel, or comment on them and interact with other users.

The charts section pulls information from services like Box Office Mojo and Nielsen Media Research to provide the top ...

Google the words "world's oldest blogger," and you'll get no shortage of results. The bulk of the stories focus on folks in their mid-to-late 90s--mostly 95 and 96. Impressive, to be sure, but they've got nothing on Australian great-grandmother, Olive Riley. One would be hard-pressed to find someone who might be able to snatch the title away from Riley, who, in three days, will be turning 108.

Over at Riley's blog, The Life of Riley, they've already started the celebration--the home that Riley lives at insists that they hold birthday celebrations on Weekdays. But heck, she's already live 3,9417 days, so what's another three, right?

Born in 1899 in Broken Hill Australia (outside of Sydney), Riley started her blog--what she calls a "blob"--in February of this year. The entries consist largely of Riley's transcriptions to her friend Mike, consisting of her day to day events and stories for her 108 years of life.

Yep, sounds like a blog to us.

The latest political bombshell (unconfirmed, so far as I know) is that Lynne Cheney is claiming that her husband, Vice-President Dick Cheney, is distantly related to Sen. Barack Obama.

Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths." The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France, according to Reuters.

Normally, given a chance like this, opportunism strikes. It just so happens, however, that genealogy site Ancestry.com's DNA service did not take advantage of this. So we're doing it for them.

Disclosure: I tried out the Ancestry.com service a few months ago, got hooked, and signed up. What I like about the site is that it's made for lazy genealogists like me: once I input a few key pieces of data, such as a full name and birthdate, the site instantly starts checking public databases in the background, to see if there's a match. That data includes the U.S. Census, which generally includes the names and ages of people living in a given household when the census was taken, which are extremely helpful clues to flesh out your family tree.

The service that Obama and Cheney might be interested in checking out is DNA.Ancestry.com, which allows you to submit a sample of your own DNA (a service that costs between $149 and $199) for Y-DNA (chromosomes that pass from father to son) and mtDNA tests (matching chromosomes that pass from mothers to their children).

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Perhaps empowered by a recent $222,000 ruling in its favor, the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) is now going after Usenet.com, one of the companies hosting the distributed Usenet newsgroups, for "consciously and blatantly" facilitating the illegal downloading of copyrighted material.

The recording industry filed suit Friday in a New York district court and is looking to recover Usenet profits, $150,000 per infringement and attorneys fees.

The RIAA asserts in its filing that Usenet.com is "almost identical" to Napster and other illegal P2P file sharing services. Usenet.com, however, goes further to provide "enhancements that make the service more attractive" for those looking to share files illegally, according to the suit.

Usenet.com allows users to share data on its system like a message board. The service provides a variety of service plans, from $18.95 per month for unlimited access to $4.95 per month for 2GB of space.

The RIAA alleges that these fees encourage Usenet to support infringement. Usenet.com's "profits increase with the amount of infringement it fosters [because] binary files are significantly larger than text files," according to the suit. "The more copyrighted sound recordings users download, the more money [Usenet.com] makes."

The RIAA points to notices on the Usenet Web site that appear to encourage illegal downloads like: "Shh ... Quiet! We believe it's no one's business but your own what you do on the Internet or in Usenet. We don't track user activity."

Such statement could be problematic in court in the RIAA wants to invoke the Grokster ruling, in which the Supreme Court ruled against filing sharing services because it found that "each company showed itself to be aiming to satisfy a known ...

Social.fm is part social-networking service, part music-streaming and discovery site. If you're looking for new music, you can choose from popular artists and explore new genres and musicians from around the world. If you're looking to meet people who share your musical tastes, check out the community to see who's streaming their music collection and what they're listening to these days. When you're finished looking around, sign up for your own account and share your favorite tunes with the world.

I stumbled onto Social.fm when I was looking for new music, and the service is about as good at providing new music suggestions and ideas as it is at introducing me to new people. Signing up is as easy as providing your name, email address, and password, and once you're signed up you can immediately start adding friends, commenting on other people's stations, and charting music on your own.

There are two big parts to Social.fm: social networking and music discovery. Each of them is impressively robust and offers features that make Social.fm stand out from other social networking services. First, if you're looking for new music or information on existing favorite artists, you can use the search bar at the top of any Social.fm page. The service pulls artist information from services such as All Music, so you can be safe in the knowledge that you'll get information on just about any artist you type in.

The information about the artist is laid out on a profile page, with where you can see a photo of the artist and browse for ...

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