Snippets 18-08-2009

Pirate Bay Backup

As some of you may know, Pirate Bay is being sold and developed into a paying business.

The basics of it are: you download, you pay BUT if you share, you get paid. So if you share, technically you get free downloads.

Nostalgic/Worried users have uploaded a 21.3 Gigabyte file, which is an archive of the Bay, in case users wanted to make sure nothing disappears in the business cross over.

The backup includes a mockup site and all of the 873,671 torrent files hosted on The Pirate Bay’s servers. As the uploader also notes, not all of the 2 million torrents tracked by The Pirate Bay are hosted on the site itself.

TorrentFreak

Twitter is mostly rubbish…

Didn’t you know?

Pear Analytics, an American market research company, have studied Twitter and compiled the stats.

40% of tweets are mindless babble.

They also found that people were using Twitter as an I.M (instant messaging) client.

The study found that only 8.7% of messages could be said to have "value" as they passed along news of interest.

it(Pear Analytics study) found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.

BBC

Current had the following nice image to explain it all…

Myspace buys iLike…

iLike, the popular music application, has been purchased by Myspace.

According to Tech Crunch, the price was “around $20 million.”

Details are still flying in, but at first blush the deal is particularly interesting for two reasons.

First, simply because iLike is so deeply integrated into the Facebook experience. Nearly 10 million Facebook users use the iLike application every month. And iLike has also been a key part of Facebook’s ongoing struggles with what-to-do-about-music. MySpace is now going to own this.

TechCrunch

PS3 Slim on its way…