Blizzard has announced that the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, will be released November 13th, 2008.
Do Something About Good Ideas Or Someone Else Will
Here’s an article entitled Good Ideas Have Lonely Childhoods. Go read it.
HTML 5 – In 2022??
Note to Future Steve… Remember to check to see if releasing the HTML 5 standard in 2022 will matter to anyone by then.
iPhone 2.1 Software Update
The iPhone 2.1 software update is out. It promises to increase battery life, fix dropped called problems, and increase your IQ by 10 points.
Ok….not the last one. But the update is out.
How NOT to Demo at TechCrunch50
You know, if a company is going to demo at TechCrunch50, it’s probably not the smartest thing in the world to alienate half your potential user base by talking about politics. But that’s exactly what DotSpots did for the first five minutes of the demo that did during their TechCruch50 demo. And the company motto? “The Wisdom of Crowds”? Apparently they haven’t heard the saying “None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us”.
edit: Google’s Marissa Mayer gave DotSpots got high marks for the idea, but wondered about the business model.
Time will tell.
TechCrunch50 is Living Streaming Now
Here’s a URL to the live stream of TechCrunch50
Cappuccino and Objective J
A new web framework called Cappuccino has been released. It allows you to program web apps in Objective-J (something similar to Object-C, only more like Javascript), and come up with some pretty impressive apps. Check out Cappuccino website for a demo of what can be done.
One Day’s Work Nets iRetroPhone $30,000 – So Far
Developer ObjectGraph built iRetroPhone, an iPhone app that lets you dial your iPhone as if it were an old-fashioned rotary dial phone in a day… first day sales at $2.99 each? 15,000 copies.
Google Picasa Adds Fact Recognition
Google launched a new face recognition feature for Picasa Web Albums which will automatically tag faces with names after you train it a bit.
Google Chrome Browser Launches Today
I worked on Mosaic back in the day, so I found this latest entry into the browser market interesting: