Mayer's statement is all reassurance and no strategic vision. Which is fair, because her Day One plan would seem to be don't sponsor a 1.1 billion dollar exodus... but it's still funny. And probably appropriate, because I don't believe Yahoo really has a strategic vision for Tumblr. It's like if the makers of…

While Yahoo might well not "mess it up", it's really funny that they have to assert it. They have a pretty horrible track record of buying awesome things only to ruin them (Flickr), let them wither on the vine (Delicious), or shutter them entirely (Astrid, but who knows what Yahoo will put those guys to work on).

The list will be, for some reason:

VOTE: Nexus 4.

Right after GATEFENCE, DAWNSET, and PAINOPENER.

But that argument is silly. Any responsible person puts a lock on his phone. And with the introduction of 4.2, the phone has additional security because you can't even ADB into it without authorising the connection within the OS itself, even after you connect it to your PC. ADB will just show the device as 'offline'…

There has to be more to it than that, or Kevin Rose would be significantly more wealthy than he is.

I just don't get where this fear comes from. I mean, your fear is only rational, presumably, if you've provided them of something that is either: enormously valuable to you or someone else, or enormously dangerous to your well being or that of your loved ones. Unless you've slipped Larry Page some nuclear launch codes…

Aha! That's a fair point. I didn't pay attention, originally, as to whether or not it installed separately from Google+. Thanks for that!

Spotify might well do it better— but it's not a fair comparison, because All Access also plays your own music. And stores your local collection. So if you had, I don't know, five gigabytes of live music, carefully archived and tagged with custom artwork... All Access would feed it right to you, anywhere, via any…

To me the most exciting part of the day came pretty late when Larry, I think, was talking about how self-driving cars seemed like such a random idea for Google to pursue until, when they started looking into it, they realised self-driving cars and Google Maps used exactly the same technology. That kind of highlighted…

...my xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian...

With the Knowledge Graph, though, Google seem to be approaching it from an entirely different direction, though... their approach seems to be a lot more free-flowing than Apple's. Apple seemed to be trying to use technology to make Siri (thus the very easy-to-find-limitations) whereas Google seem to be, I don't know,…

To me that makes it less intrusive. My generated data is hardly of interest to me— and so as a unique data point I imagine it's almost without value entirely to another party. It's only in volumes that it's even able to be monetized at all.

I agree that asymmetrical gameplay is awesome— in fact, it was the first moment when I GOT the console. It all made sense. The Miiverse, not so much. It's nice, but incredibly cutesy and I wonder how diluted it'll get once all the constituents have a larger number of diverse games to play, and thus less content on…

I'm not certain how much marketing you really have to do to traditional gamers starved for titles on a brand new console, but either way the results speak for themselves: for most of the Wii U's library the sales have been awful. Blame whoever you like.

But that's a point worth mentioning: yes, Sony did appear to mimic certain elements of the Wii U with the Vita/PS3 pairing, and yes, they'll almost certainly do nothing with it at all. But they don't need to, because it's just a bullet point. And if it mattered, if anyone cared, then they'd have the chance to make hay…

GT6 Pre-prologue coming to PS3 in late summer 2013, GT6 Prologue coming to PS4 at launch, GT6 itself coming to PS4 in 2015.

I want to see them do well, but sometimes it seems like they're uninterested in the Wii U. I know there will always be a little stream of quality first-party stuff to check out on it (well, by the end of this year, anyway) and I'm cool with that, as it's my companion console. But it bums me out to see Nintendo so…

I don't see how you can argue it isn't Nintendo's fault, really. And your argument, it would seem, would apply primarily to ports... which I think most people would choose to play on the consoles they're already invested in (for instance, I usually do most of my multiplatform gaming on my 360, because I have more…