Google to Release Chrome OS This Fall, With a Netbook?

Earlier this week, it was announced that Google would release its Chrome OS this autumn for free.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia’s biggest IT trade show. “It’s something which we are very excited by … We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Dragon Age: Origins Expansion Spills Dragon Age 2 Release Date?

BioWare’s newest release, Dragon Age’s expansion (Awakening) was released today and I was happy to see it arrive on my doorstep but inside the box was a little card with a picture of a red dragon on it and in the top-left was simply a date, “02.01.2011″. I guess EA likes jumping the gun, though it was said the next game would be out sometime between January and March of 2011, so Dragon Age fans take note and mark your calenders.

Sorry for the shoddy image, my new handycam can’t take a decent picture for it’s life

First Post of 2010, Bethesda Working on “World of Warcraft type MMO”

So, I know it’s been almost 3 weeks with no word from me but trust me, there’s not a whole lot you missed. Yes, it’s 2010, and we have a little less than 2 years until our absolute destruction but in the meantime, did you know Bethesda missed it’s big reveal of the Elder Scrolls MMO in 2009? I know, I didn’t know either! According to VG247, “Development on the game has apparently been ongoing since late 2006, said the documents, with “tens of millions of dollars” invested and “close to a hundred people” working on it.” To add to that, there was another slip up from book publisher Waterstones saying the next Elder Scrolls game would take place 200 years after Oblivion.

Whoops.

But we already know of Zenimax, Bethesda’s parent company, opening a MMO division headed by DAoC’s own Mike Firor who have been working an an unannounced title. Well this is it. Maybe.

Only 40% User Retention Rate for Twitter

Well that explains why no one follows me

Over at Mashable I came across an article talking about the statistics of the popular social network, Twitter. While there’s a large growth of activity on the site, it was recently reported by stat tracking firm Nielsen, that the retention of these users is going down. In fact, “more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following month,” says Nielsen.

What’s my guess? Well a couple of things. One, spam and bots. Out of the awesome 16 followers I’ve had on Twitter, 4 of them were bots ‘looking for a good time’. But that’s not the big issue as you can just block the suckas and move on smiling, but being a lazy geek, it’s just so much hassle

The next reason I can sum up in one word…or name, even. Oprah….or Ashton…okay 2 names. But regardless, this goes back to the fact that Twitter is a social network, and you can follow whomever you want, but it’s your choice. So Oprah is on Twitter, whoop-dee-f***ing-doo! I suppose though, the native geeks who first started using Twitter back in 2006 feel Twitter has become a gimmick, which may be partially true, but you make it what you want it to be.

Well I guess that kills those two theories, but I do have one more that could explain the low retention rate. Obviously it is caused by the fact that the users leaving are not following me. It’s the only possible explanation! Or, I guess, it could possibly be the fact that everyone uses TweetDeck, or a combination of all of the above!

Well, I guess I’ll have to go tweet about this! Have a happy Sunday, everyone!

[60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month] on Mashable