I don't goto Techcrunch often anymore (that'll be a future post) but the story of Edgeio folding caught my eye since I knew Techcrunch founder Micheal Arrington was involved with both sites. I wanted to see what he said about one of his companies as it hit the Deadpool on his more successful venture. Talk about conflict of interest! I'll save you the effort: there was nothing out of the ordinary in the post. Really a typical, "you win some, you lose some," note. True.
To tell you the truth, I wasn't even surprised to see ...
Head on over to the petition to remove Trakzor from Facebook. Currently it is "signed" by over 2300 people.
What I find interesting for developers is that many users still do not understand that applications are third-party. Some comments of interest:
This is looking more and more like the comments on YouTube:
Finally, there is some sensibility:
This should remind the TechCrunch 53651 that you shouldn't assume your users know what you know; that means they can and do plead ignorance.