Malicious android apps

With the money/profits involved with Android you'd think that Google should be throwing resources at this problem.....

-  http://www.securityweek.com/android-app-stole-user-photos-over-year

Don't get me wrong, Apples walled garden approach is "wrong" in so many other ways but you'd think some kind of "verified by google" blue tick or similar with a fee make sense.

Class 3 of muru-d

Any thoughts on the latest muru-d crop of startups?

If you had to back 1 of the 9 which one would it be?

- https://muru-d.com/events/details/syd3-demo-night-invite-only/

Wire.com

Great move for a great piece of technology - http://fortune.com/2016/07/22/wire-open-source

 

Have no idea why more people aren’t using this software.

Facebook bots from a desktop?

Anyone know why you cant “invoke” facebook bots from a desktop browser?

Its weird after reading this article http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/yahoo-unveils-four-bots-for-facebook-messenger/53126105  i fired up my desktop browser (on left) but you cant initiate a chat with the @YahooWeather at all….fire up mobile messenger app….yep works straight away.

Any thoughts? has anyone built a POC to see whats involved? What sort of takeup are you seeing?

Are users coming back?

Can you generate enough website traffic to justify the costs/effort involved?

Pokemon Go

Pokémon Go Is Already Taking Over People’s Lives And It’s Very, Very Scary
“Instead of taking my lunch break I just walked around catching Pokémon for 30 minutes.”- https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/pokemon-go-app


seems to be working btw - https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rszbc/the_lure_was_supposed_to_bring_more_pokemon/

I've often wondered why we dont see more games like Mogi Mogi developed over the years - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2006/07/do-you-mogi-mogi.html  

I know about Ingress but you just think with mobile apps this would be a natural format.

Will be interesting to see if this is a category breakout.