Last week we talked to the guys behind tinyCrunch, a site that condenses TechCrunch posts into bulleted (Blackberry-friendly!) items for the time-pressed tech professional. Back then, the "tiny" guys, Matthew Glueckert and Jason Wilk, said they'd be launching new "verticals" for what they're calling a "newswire for blogs" in the near future. Today they delivered with -- you guessed it -- "tinyMash," a feed of Mashable posts condensed into four- and five-bullet posts. Gleuckert and ...

More than a million people have illegally downloaded the first two episodes of Fox's "Prison Break" on BitTorrent sites since they first aired on Monday night, according to Torrentfreak. This, even though both episodes were made available for free soon after their TV premiere on both Hulu and Fox.com. Wired checked to find out how that compares with Hulu, which declined to say how many viewers they'd had for both shows since Monday. The two ...

Gannett Co. (GCI) is helping Tribune Co. CEO Sam Zell raise some much-needed cash. The nation's largest newspaper chain is paying Tribune $135 million for a 10% interest in CareerBuilder, a deal that values the employment site at $1.35 billion. The deal raises Gannett's interest in CareerBuilder to 50.8%, leaving Tribune with 30.8%. McClatchy (MNI) and Microsoft (MSFT) hold 14.4% and 4% respectively. As a result, Gannett gets three seats on CareerBuilder's six-member board; the ...

It looks like NBC U really does believe some of its hype about the Web not detracting from TV. To wit: the network is putting five shows on Hulu.com a week before they air on broadcast TV to build buzz for their premieres. This isn't too big a gamble: three of the shows -- Lipstick Jungle, Chuck and Life -- are struggling second-year shows lucky to be back on the air in any form this ...

Mike Arrington's TechCrunch is a useful site, but sometimes reading it can take some time. Enter Matthew Glueckert and Jason Wilk. Their tinyCrunch rips off -- sorry, repurposes -- TechCrunch posts and those from other blogs, and shrinks them into 2 to 4 bullet points apiece. Then they sell ads against it. Neat trick! LiveCrunch, which has been around since December, is basically doing the same thing, albeit with a broader palate of sources, and ...

We still haven't heard what TechCrunch impresario Mike Arrington thinks of tinyCrunch, which makes a living condensing TechCrunch posts. But maybe Mike hasn't seen it -- it's been down for the last day. Founders Jason Wilk and Matthew Glueckert say the site was hacked and they've spent the last 24 hours or so trying to get it back up. They don't know who or why, but given the type of damage to their files, they ...

We still haven't heard what TechCrunch impresario Mike Arrington thinks of tinyCrunch, which makes a living condensing TechCrunch posts. But maybe Mike hasn't seen it -- it's been down for the last day. Founders Jason Wilk and Matthew Glueckert say the site was hacked and they've spent the last 24 hours or so trying to get it back up. They don't know who or why, but given the type of damage to their files, they ...

Transnational comparisons can be dicey, and Web metrics are a mess in China. Still, one thing seems certain: China's state television, CCTV, racked up more Web traffic during the games than anyone else. Analytics firm Webtrends estimates that CCTV.com averaged 6 million unique visitors a day during the games, compared to 4.7 million to Yahoo's Olympic channel and 4.3 million to NBCOlympics.com, according to Nielsen Online. That's not too big a surprise: the Chinese were ...

Transnational comparisons can be dicey, and Web metrics are a mess in China. Still, one thing seems certain: China's state television, CCTV, racked up more Web traffic during the games than anyone else. Analytics firm Webtrends estimates that CCTV.com averaged 6 million unique visitors a day during the games, compared to 4.7 million to Yahoo's Olympic channel and 4.3 million to NBCOlympics.com, according to Nielsen Online. That's not too big a surprise: the Chinese were ...

Despite cratering ratings, network TV had a big upfront sales period last spring. Just ask them. One problem: as always, the upfront represents promises to buy ads, not actual orders. Those are supposed to start coming in now, but it sounds like some palms are starting to sweat. Typically, when firm orders materialize in the fall they're 2% to 3% lower than committments in the spring. But media buyers are predicting that number could climb ...

Despite cratering ratings, network TV had a big upfront sales period last spring. Just ask them. One problem: as always, the upfront represents promises to buy ads, not actual orders. Those are supposed to start coming in now, but it sounds like some palms are starting to sweat. Typically, when firm orders materialize in the fall they're 2% to 3% lower than committments in the spring. But media buyers are predicting that number could climb ...

Take a good, long look at YouTube's (GOOG) homepage. You may not recognize it soon: The video site is trying out new ad format that will turn over a good chunk of the page to sponsors. The move is an obvious step that Google hasn't taken yet as it tries to wring money out of its hugely popular site. Messing around with pre-roll ads, overlays and other ways to insert advertising into the video is ...

Alibaba Group, the Hong Kong-listed e-commerce firm 39% owned by Yahoo (YHOO), said net profit rose 159% in Q2, helped by interest income on the proceeds from its huge IPO last fall. But all is not well in China's nascent e-commerce market, and CEO David Wei says the company, which facilitates trade between small and medium-sized firms, is seeing volumes slow. "For the next six months, conditions will get tougher," he said, in a conference ...

Alibaba Group, the Hong Kong-listed e-commerce firm 39% owned by Yahoo (YHOO), said net profit rose 159% in Q2, helped by interest income on the proceeds from its huge IPO last fall. But all is not well in China's nascent e-commerce market, and CEO David Wei says the company, which facilitates trade between small and medium-sized firms, is seeing volumes slow. "For the next six months, conditions will get tougher," he said, in a conference ...

One thing TiVo (TIVO) likes to do: pre-announce incremental business deals ahead of earnings. But this one is weak even by their standards: TiVo users will now be able to automatically record shows suggested by the sage staff of Entertainment Weekly. It's part of CEO Tom Rogers' plan to do a deal with anyone -- anyone -- who can help make TiVo look like more than just a regular DVR. But the ideas aren't coming ...

Don Draper's back. On Twitter, that is. The fake accounts of "Mad Men" characters like Don Draper and Peggy Olson, created by fans but taken down at the request of bumbling cable channel AMC, are back up again. What happened? Deep Focus, the Web marketing group that works for AMC, tells us that they gently nudged their client into rescinding the DMCA takedown notice they'd sent to Twitter. See, in Web marketing parlance, the Twitterers ...

Don Draper's back. On Twitter, that is. The fake accounts of "Mad Men" characters like Don Draper and Peggy Olson, created by fans but taken down at the request of bumbling cable channel AMC, are back up again. What happened? Deep Focus, the Web marketing group that works for AMC, tells us that they gently nudged their client into rescinding the DMCA takedown notice they'd sent to Twitter. See, in Web marketing parlance, the Twitterers ...

Google is taking its "Ad Manager" ad-serving software out of beta. As Center Networks' Allen Stern points out, that could be bad news for OpenX, a startup chaired by former AOL chief Jonathan Miller that does basically the same thing. Like OpenX, Google's Ad Manager is a tool that allows publishers to manage and maximize ad inventory on their sites. Google's Ad Manager runs on Google's servers, and for those with Ad Sense accounts, adding ...

Qik, a service that allows users to broadcast live video from mobile phones, has taken a "significant" investment from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, NewTeeVee reports. Andreessen, co-founder of Ning, worked with Horowitz at Netscape and Loudcloud. The two are joining Qik's board. Qik has raised $4 million in two funding rounds from investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff of Salesforce, TeleSoft Partners founder Arjun Gupta and Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick. A perfect application ...