Hey, I just read this interesting article on TorrentFreak.com
Hackers make their way into the owner of SuperTorrents.org account’s taking all his personal data as well as donating all this money from the SuperTorrents fund to a religious organisation. For the full story please go to this link 
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In this world of flash, glassy and glossy Web 2.0 that we live in the growing trend seems to be creating site’s in beta and then launching them with invites to select people. This is not a new practice and has been been used for many years, but now, it seems every new web 2.0 site with a team of developers is have beta trials with invites. Over on Invite Share there are countless sites that are being added to the long list of beta invites that are shared throughout the community, with more and more added every week this phenomenon of beta invites will not die anytime soon.
I’m sure that there have been many sites in the past who have used this beta invite program as a way to attract interest, raise popularity, nag peoples curiosity (after all, curiosity killed the cat) and also do the fateful bug testing of this soon to be ‘revolutionary program which will change the internet the way you know it’. From as far back as I can remember (and I could be wrong, please correct me if I am) Google’s Gmail program was the first major private beta release on the internet and it obviously sparked a multitude of invite programs. As Web 2.o websites are about the community beta invites revolve around the community helping the developers with bug testing as well as spreading the word. How many times have we all wanted to look inside the mysterious box but we couldn’t unless we were told to? Beta invites work in much the same way, people get desperate and even buy invites off eBay for ridiculous amounts of money while a lucky few get the sweet yet satisfying email of acceptance.
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Ahhh, good ol’ betas, don’t you love them?
Tonight I finally got my beta invite to try out the new Mac program still in beta; Skitch. What is this program? It’s hard to describe. I think the best way is mixing digg, flickr, paint and ease of use.
You can easily take a screenshot of your whole screen or just a portion by dragging the crosshair over the part you want to take and it automatically takes it into the program. From here you can add simple shapes in, circle objects with the pen tool and even add text! All these sit ‘on top’ of the image so you can simply drag them into place. You can also do this with images straight from your iPhoto library or even a folder. Skitch even has a tab on the bottom of the program which allows you to drag from the program to a folder and save the image.
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