Back in 2009 founders of the now infamous BitTorrent search engine, The Pirate Bay, were convicted of being accessories to copyright violations and issued with hefty fines and potential prison sentences. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström and Gottfrid Svartholm went on to file for a Supreme Court appeal in Sweden in an attempt to…

We've seen many a meme become an online phenomenon since the birth of Shiny Shiny, but never have we seen one that's become so popular so quickly that even our parents have seen (WTF) until now. The s%!t my ___ says videos have truly taken on a life of their own over the past few…

Popular video sharing community Vimeo announced plans for a new redesign yesterday, which will not only put more focus on the all-important video content, giving users a player that's two times the size of the original, but will also see improved navigation options and a range of new discovering and social sharing features too. Although…

I'm sure most of us have been in a relationship that's come to an end and have had to make the painful (yet sometimes liberating) decision to throw away those old teddy bears, cards and other cutesy keepsakes. But what if you were planning on getting married and have much more big and expensive items…

Clever recommendation website and quirky little mind map tool Jinni has changed the way we discover new films and TV shows, so imagine how excited we were to find there's a similar kinda service to help you pair up the right kinds of food. Foodpairing is an interactive web application specially designed to allow you…

All of our favourite websites and communities seem to want to shout about their achievements at the moment (we're looking at you Tumblr), and with impressive statistics and lots of new ideas in the pipeline we see no problem with that at all. The latest set of "oh wow" stats comes from YouTube, as Google…

Today at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, the founder and CEO of popular micro-blogging platform Tumblr, David Karp, revealed that the site and its many, many blogs attract more than 15 billion pageviews every month. Although that statistic is huge, it comes as no surprise given that there are (as of right now),…

Virtual pinboard community Pinterest has really taken off over the past few weeks. If you haven't heard of it, been sent an invite or seen 473,589,476 updates about it on Twitter, then it's a visual inspiration and curation website where you can "pin" content to virtual boards. Yes, there are similar concepts out there, but…

We've all heard of the bright, irritating and highly addictive bird hurling game Angry Birds, but how about trying your hand at Angry Brides instead... Don't worry, you don't have to hurl worried wedding guests at shaky structures, but you can hit a range of well-dressed, rather smug-looking men with flip flops, stilettos and other…