You’ve no doubt heard Charlie Sheen isto appear on uStreamin a matter of minutes. No ones quite sure what he’s planning on announcing but we’ve been informed the Ustream team are standing by for what might be their biggest livestream event yet. Previously the record had been set by President Obama’s inauguration but this is reportedly likely to surpass that. The record its looking to beat is 400k simultaneous viewers (UPDATE: Ustream tells us that in actual fact, the’s company’s record is 5....

Chatbots that resurrect the dead: legal experts weigh in on ‘disturbing’ technology Bodies in binary National laws are inconsistent on how your data is used after your death. In the EU, thelawon data privacy only protects the rights of the living. That leavesroom for member statesto decide how to protect the data of the dead. Some, such asEstonia, France, Italy, and Latvia, have legislated on postmortem data. The UK’sdata protection lawshave not....

Chatboxis a new app in beta that brings project collaboration features to Dropbox. Shared folders form the containers for projects and chats can then occur around the project itself or files within the folder, making it handy for discussing a project with many files — such as a development project. Chatbox is very light on features, probably lighter than what you’d simply call minimalist — but we’re talking about a beta, one that the developer,Edwin Chuof Hong Kong, has admitted was a ‘weekend project‘....

Sometimes you need to get a group of people together on the fly to discuss things. While there are options such as Skype chats, we’ve stumbled across one that you’re going to like. It’s calledChats.ioand it’s supremely simple to use. Just type chats.io/_____ (fill in whatever you want your chat name to be) and then you have a few simple commands. Just like IRC, you can choose to do a /nick command to change your name, /join (room name) will let you join another room and /leave lets you exit the chat room entirely....

Here’s something pretty cool. The good people atHarmony Park Labs, the ‘cultural construction company’, have given us a sneak peak at this neat little web tool. Chattp.com(correct pronunciation yet to be clarified…) augments your browser window by adding a real-time chat panel to the left-hand side, whilst you continue to browse a website. You simply go toChattp.com, enter the URL of the website you’d like to ‘Chattify’, and the website becomes embedded within a unique Chattp URL....