Posts Tagged ‘TechCrunch’

There’s been a few interesting developments and further discussions on some of the topics we’ve been covering recently, as well as the odd bizarre web-related story in the past few days, all of which I’ve decided to compile into this bumper miscellaneous post. It might be somewhat of a scrambled mish-mash of incongruent pieces – or a perfectly digestible round-up of key opinion and news from the past few days: I’ll let you be the judge…

First up, it’s worth mentioning that the massive gaming expo that is/was Gamescom 2010 went off this weekend with excellent attendance figures, leaving the blogosphere buzzing with anticipation about some of this autumn’s forthcoming titles. By the looks of it, the last quarter of the…

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The gang over at Techcrunch have been covering Facebook places pretty well since its launch yesterday and have, amongst other things, produced a very useful clarification of exactly how participation in the feature will work – since it’s not simply a case of you’re completely out until you choose to opt-in. Turns out that there’s actually three levels of engagement with the app – one for those who’ve opted in, one for those who’ve explicitly opted out, and a third for the majority who have not given FB any instructions on Places whatsoever.

For more detail, see the aforementioned TC blog, with results of their trial experiment of Places. The general gist however is that, unless you explicitly opt-out of Places,…

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Details are slowly emerging about Google’s pending Web Store for its Chrome browser, for which October is the currently scheduled release date. Beyond expecting a fairly standard app store type of system, there is little else that commentators have been able to flesh out  so far – since Google has yet to divulge the more specific details. For that I suppose we’ll have to wait another few weeks, though in the meantime, Techrunch have provided a little bit of very interesting speculation about the likelihood of the Web Store containing a strong social element. (For more on that, see their excellent post on the topic earlier today). Also fascinating is the Web Store’s planned delivery of computer games, which promises…

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Oh dear – things are getting worse and worse by the day for the careless Apple developer who left an iPhone 4G prototype in a bar after popping in for just a few quiet drinks. (For those who are new to the story, all you need to know can be found here, and then here). In short, Apple have compounded the initial individual blunder by taking rather excessive action in attempting to retrieve the phone – by having Gizmodo editor, Jason Chen’s, house searched and property seized – due to the belief that he had been sent the phone by the original finder.

Now, for a company which spends a lot of cash trying to look nice in expensive TV adverts,…

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There’s a great video available over at Techcrunch at the moment in which Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau, best know for being the co-creator of the world wide web along with Tim Berners-Lee, shares some thoughts on current web issues. The interview was done at the recent ‘Next Web’ Conference in Amsterdam and features some interesting thoughts – the majority of which are related to Cailliau’s suspicion of social networks (he’s not on Facebook) and his general concerns over data and privacy control in the age of web 2.0.

Click over to TC to view the full clip – you could do a lot worse than spend 20 minutes to hear the thoughts of a man who will go down in history…

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