Today marked the death of two great startups: AllPeers and Ezmo. AllPeers is the Firefox extension that originally emerged as a way to share files between your friends and family, and later on they started to support BitTorrent transfers. Having this integrated into your browser is pretty convenient, but it didn't take off quite like they hoped that it would.
I've been complaining for quite awhile that Google Talk hasn't been updated in ages (over a year), but the online version of the messaging clients have been receiving features quite regularly. Google recently added AIM support to Gmail Chat, group chatting is possible in both the Flash client and Gmail Chat, and the smilies available in both online messenger clients are way better than what Google Talk has.
The Band Nine Inch Nails really seems to understand where the music industry is headed. They recently released their new album called "Ghosts" on Torrent sites as a free download. NIN isn't contracted to any specific record label, so they have the freedom to decide how they are going to spread their music.
Last Tuesday, the team over at YouTube posted a blog entry that explained their new experimental personalized homepages that they were getting ready to launch. On Saturday, the new personalized homepages were made available. Here's a quick run-through on what they've done:
Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).
Today we're taking a look at MSN Encarta, not Encarta Premium which you buy from Microsoft, but the portion of it that's available online for free. While the complete version contains far more information, the ad-supported online version has a wealth of information that's worth taking advantage of.
The month of March has just started and we thought it was the perfect time to bring back some "oldies but goodies" - some of our favorite articles from March of 2007. Today's MyFive takes you back a year ago and highlights what was going on. If you enjoy reading some of the older content, remember that you can subscribe to the CyberNet Classics RSS feeds.
Back when the iPhone first launched, there were many people who wanted to get one but had to decide whether it was worth it or not to be locked into a required 2-year contract with AT&T. As it turns out, a good chunk of people must have felt it was in fact worth it, given how well the iPhone has done so far.
A couple of times a year, a big ole telephone book arrives on my doorstep with a thump. These telephone books which were once a necessity are now near obsolete.
