It wasn't that long ago that you could share what you were doing at that exact time by messaging a few people from your mobile phone... but thanks to a few websites you can now you can do that just about anywhere and to absolutely everyone. Over the last year (or two) there has been a massive surge in what everyone likes to call "status updates" or "tweeting" if you want to limit it to a certain site. The purpose of this article is to just enlighten you with what is out there for this sole purpose of telling the world what you are doing.

1. Twitter - Well we start with what can only be described as the most powerful and popular of all. Twitter was started in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the site was mainly a research project that was heavily involved within the Odeo Podcasting Network. Since its arrival in 2006 Twitter has gone from strength to strength winning major Web 2.0 award and Internet awards in general.

So what makes Twitter really good? Well you could start off with the usability you can't really not use an easier site to update your status. With the words "What are you doing?" above a text box its pretty obvious what you put in there but what makes this site really good is the amount of third party applications there are out there ranging from Twinkle to Tweetie to Twitterific for the iPhone and also not forgetting the Desktop and Mac applications like Twhirl and Tweetdeck. Another useful thing about twitter would be the ability to update via SMS if there's something I find useful when I can't get a good 3G signal its the ability to update via that, but quite recently Twitter has shot themselves in the foot there but removing the ability to reply to tweets via text in certain countries with UK being one of them.

Another thing Twitter has going for it, is that celebrities and political figures use Twitter, for example during the 2008 election Barack Obama joined so he could get involved in the tech side of the elections and even to this day he has over 90 thousand followers waiting to check his every move.

Recently there has been the chat about takeovers and buy outs for Twitter but as of writing this article they are standing firm with their quarterly funding and will continue to operate as a sole corporation.

2. Facebook - Facebook is bigger then Twitter but not for the status market though. Facebook originally was a college project to just connect a few users around a college campus but as with alot of popular things it grew from a few campus's to a few hundred countries. For the longest time though Facebook has been primarily a cleaner, slicker version of a profile site (with less customization) and unlike MySpace the site has a more personal following. You can join groups about your interests or even follow celebrities via their official pages or even profiles if you know them.

Where the status updates comes in is in the profile, where you can add whatever you are doing next to your name. For example you could put "Damien is writing an article" but in the past you could just read and that was it. Last year they decided to compete with the likes of Twitter, and began to allow other people to comment on what you just updated. Unlike Twitter the replies are mostly personal and not some random @'s on a site, it's directed to you and you can reply to the comments for as long as you like and its easier to keep track.

Many people will just use facebook for mobile or internet status updates because nearly everyone already has a facebook account so its just easier then signing up for a twitter account or anywhere to post them but facebook certainly as its perks to sharing your life.

3. Soup.io - Last but not least is Soup a very useful site that you can use to share your life and files in this case. Before soup was thought of there was a very popular site called Pownce which allowed you to share files,pictures,music and messages with the ease of a submission but early last month Pownce was sold off and so was the idea, so in steps Soup as the main operator of micro-blogging. Soup was derived for the need of a site that would allow you to aggregate all your feeds from your popular sites into one like Flickr,Last.fm and even your blog or any site that uses RSS.

Soups main feature is the ability to "micro blog" your status and attach pictures to that blog or a video or even a nice piece of music, this has become pretty popular lately purely because some people don't want to twitter because its not long enough but don't want the hassle in setting up a blog so this is sort of an in between measure.

Look very soon for an interview with the Soup team as I am trying to arrange a form of Q&A to know how this site came about and what they have planned!

Before I finish this article it would be good to mention the other sites that allow status and micro blogging and they would be Jaiku (now run by Google), Plurk (a cross between status and blogging) and Tumblr (primarily a micro blogging site). If you have any other sites which you think are great for status updates or micro blogging feel free to comment below!

The Internet domain game has been going strong for over 20 years. Have you ever thought back and wondered what some of the first domain registrations were? Surprisingly the first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com. Below you will find the list of the first 100 domain names registered.

If only you were able to predict at that time how vast the internet would expand you could have made loads of money. Simple three letter domain names now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's no surprise that the first 100 list is compromised of many large corporations as it surely cost more than $1.99 to register a domain name in the 1980's. Interestingly Microsoft.com isn't part of the list as it was not registered until May 1991.

1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: Sept. 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: Nov. 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: Jan. 9, 1986
8. sri.com: Jan. 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986
10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986
12. sun.com: March 19, 1986
13. intel.com: March 25, 1986
14. ti.com: March 25, 1986
15. att.com: April 25, 1986
16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986
17. tek.com: May 8, 1986
18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986
19. ub.com: July 10, 1986
20. bell-atl.com: Aug. 5, 1986
21. ge.com: Aug. 5, 1986
22. grebyn.com: Aug. 5, 1986
23. isc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
24. nsc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
25. stargate.com: Aug. 5, 1986
26. boeing.com: Sept. 2, 1986
27. itcorp.com: Sept. 18, 1986
28. siemens.com: Sept. 29, 1986
29. pyramid.com: Oct. 18, 1986
30. alphacdc.com: Oct. 27, 1986
31. bdm.com: Oct. 27, 1986
32. fluke.com: Oct. 27, 1986
33. inmet.com: Oct. 27, 1986
34. kesmai.com: Oct. 27, 1986
35. mentor.com: Oct. 27, 1986
36. nec.com: Oct. 27, 1986
37. ray.com: Oct. 27, 1986
38. rosemount.com: Oct. 27, 1986
39. vortex.com: Oct. 27, 1986
40. alcoa.com: Nov. 5, 1986
41. gte.com: Nov. 5, 1986
42. adobe.com: Nov. 17, 1986
43. amd.com: Nov. 17, 1986
44. das.com: Nov. 17, 1986
45. data-io.com: Nov. 17, 1986
46. octopus.com: Nov. 17, 1986
47. portal.com: Nov. 17, 1986
48. teltone.com: Nov. 17, 1986
49. 3com.com: Dec. 11, 1986
50. amdahl.com: Dec. 11, 1986
51. ccur.com: Dec. 11, 1986
52. ci.com: Dec. 11, 1986
53. convergent.com: Dec. 11, 1986
54. dg.com: Dec. 11, 1986
55. peregrine.com: Dec. 11, 1986
56. quad.com: Dec. 11, 1986
57. sq.com: Dec. 11, 1986
58. tandy.com: Dec. 11, 1986
59. tti.com: Dec. 11, 1986
60. unisys.com: Dec. 11, 1986
61. cgi.com: Jan. 19, 1987
62. cts.com: Jan. 19, 1987
63. spdcc.com: Jan. 19, 1987
64. apple.com: Feb. 19, 1987
65. nma.com: March 4, 1987
66. prime.com: March 4, 1987
67. philips.com: April 4, 1987
68. datacube.com: April 23, 1987
69. kai.com: April 23, 1987
70. tic.com: April 23, 1987
71. vine.com: April 23, 1987
72. ncr.com: April 30, 1987
73. cisco.com: May 14, 1987
74. rdl.com: May 14, 1987
75. slb.com: May 20, 1987
76. parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
77. utc.com: May 27, 1987
78. ide.com: June 26, 1987
79. trw.com: July 9, 1987
80. unipress.com: July 13, 1987
81. dupont.com: July 27, 1987
82. lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
83. rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
84. toad.com: Aug. 18, 1987
85. quick.com: Aug. 31, 1987
86. allied.com: Sept. 3, 1987
87. dsc.com: Sept. 3, 1987
88. sco.com: Sept. 3, 1987
89. gene.com: Sept. 22, 1987
90. kccs.com: Sept. 22, 1987
91. spectra.com: Sept. 22, 1987
92. wlk.com: Sept. 22, 1987
93. mentat.com: Sept. 30, 1987
94. wyse.com: Oct. 14, 1987
95. cfg.com: Nov. 2, 1987
96. marble.com: Nov. 9, 1987
97. cayman.com: Nov. 16, 1987
98. entity.com: Nov. 16, 1987
99. ksr.com: Nov. 24, 1987
100. nynexst.com: Nov. 30, 1987

Adult Entertainment company Hustler is finding it hard to find users who are sharing their films or videos online, so they have gone to a third party to find the users sharing them... and that company is Media Protector.

In case you are new to the Media Protector news, they are a company that are hired out by Studios or Record Labels to go onto popular networks like BitTorrent, ed2k and others and collects the IP's of users who are sharing their material and thus reports them to the company. Media Protector then uses their lawyers to get the ISP to release the users details so they can pursue them with letters to pay a fine or they could face a long charge that could lead to court.

Media Protector Managing Director, Rainer Strassmeir, told Xbiz "We are working today with a lot of international rights-holders and leading production companies — including Hustler, the world's largest adult entertainment company — and have detected well over 200,000 copyright infringements in Germany alone", with so many video sharing sites now it will be very hard to catch people sharing the videos and remove them because delete off one and it will appear on another.

But Media Protector themselves aren't really that reliable after their evidence was called into question last year, when they accused a user using the ed2k network that he was uploading illegal content even though the program itself couldn't upload, the user eventually got compensation.

The Internet domain game has been going strong for over 20 years. Have you ever thought back and wondered what some of the first domain registrations were? Surprisingly the first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com. Below you will find the list of the first 100 domain names registered.

If only you were able to predict at that time how vast the internet would expand you could have made loads of money. Simple three letter domain names now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's no surprise that the first 100 list is compromised of many large corporations as it surely cost more than $1.99 to register a domain name in the 1980's.

1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: Sept. 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: Nov. 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: Jan. 9, 1986
8. sri.com: Jan. 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986
10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986
12. sun.com: March 19, 1986
13. intel.com: March 25, 1986
14. ti.com: March 25, 1986
15. att.com: April 25, 1986
16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986
17. tek.com: May 8, 1986
18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986
19. ub.com: July 10, 1986
20. bell-atl.com: Aug. 5, 1986
21. ge.com: Aug. 5, 1986
22. grebyn.com: Aug. 5, 1986
23. isc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
24. nsc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
25. stargate.com: Aug. 5, 1986
26. boeing.com: Sept. 2, 1986
27. itcorp.com: Sept. 18, 1986
28. siemens.com: Sept. 29, 1986
29. pyramid.com: Oct. 18, 1986
30. alphacdc.com: Oct. 27, 1986
31. bdm.com: Oct. 27, 1986
32. fluke.com: Oct. 27, 1986
33. inmet.com: Oct. 27, 1986
34. kesmai.com: Oct. 27, 1986
35. mentor.com: Oct. 27, 1986
36. nec.com: Oct. 27, 1986
37. ray.com: Oct. 27, 1986
38. rosemount.com: Oct. 27, 1986
39. vortex.com: Oct. 27, 1986
40. alcoa.com: Nov. 5, 1986
41. gte.com: Nov. 5, 1986
42. adobe.com: Nov. 17, 1986
43. amd.com: Nov. 17, 1986
44. das.com: Nov. 17, 1986
45. data-io.com: Nov. 17, 1986
46. octopus.com: Nov. 17, 1986
47. portal.com: Nov. 17, 1986
48. teltone.com: Nov. 17, 1986
49. 3com.com: Dec. 11, 1986
50. amdahl.com: Dec. 11, 1986
51. ccur.com: Dec. 11, 1986
52. ci.com: Dec. 11, 1986
53. convergent.com: Dec. 11, 1986
54. dg.com: Dec. 11, 1986
55. peregrine.com: Dec. 11, 1986
56. quad.com: Dec. 11, 1986
57. sq.com: Dec. 11, 1986
58. tandy.com: Dec. 11, 1986
59. tti.com: Dec. 11, 1986
60. unisys.com: Dec. 11, 1986
61. cgi.com: Jan. 19, 1987
62. cts.com: Jan. 19, 1987
63. spdcc.com: Jan. 19, 1987
64. apple.com: Feb. 19, 1987
65. nma.com: March 4, 1987
66. prime.com: March 4, 1987
67. philips.com: April 4, 1987
68. datacube.com: April 23, 1987
69. kai.com: April 23, 1987
70. tic.com: April 23, 1987
71. vine.com: April 23, 1987
72. ncr.com: April 30, 1987
73. cisco.com: May 14, 1987
74. rdl.com: May 14, 1987
75. slb.com: May 20, 1987
76. parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
77. utc.com: May 27, 1987
78. ide.com: June 26, 1987
79. trw.com: July 9, 1987
80. unipress.com: July 13, 1987
81. dupont.com: July 27, 1987
82. lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
83. rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
84. toad.com: Aug. 18, 1987
85. quick.com: Aug. 31, 1987
86. allied.com: Sept. 3, 1987
87. dsc.com: Sept. 3, 1987
88. sco.com: Sept. 3, 1987
89. gene.com: Sept. 22, 1987
90. kccs.com: Sept. 22, 1987
91. spectra.com: Sept. 22, 1987
92. wlk.com: Sept. 22, 1987
93. mentat.com: Sept. 30, 1987
94. wyse.com: Oct. 14, 1987
95. cfg.com: Nov. 2, 1987
96. marble.com: Nov. 9, 1987
97. cayman.com: Nov. 16, 1987
98. entity.com: Nov. 16, 1987
99. ksr.com: Nov. 24, 1987
100. nynexst.com: Nov. 30, 1987