It’s absolutely brilliant. After having been caught storing cell phone location data in an unprotected database, Apple just flatly denied everything and go on to unapologetically contradict their own denial. They certainly don’t charm their accusers either: “Users are confused.” I mean, it’s really absolutely amazing that they published this Q&A! This is exactly what John Cleese would do in a response meant to irritate someone.

In examining the stability of Cloud-based app engines of which I’ve always been skeptical by reason of erring on the side of caution, I stumbled on to a text app from TechCrunch that tested Google’s Cloud-based app engine, AppEngine. It’s a basic voting system that scours TechCrunch’s CrunchBase (database) and delivers a company name and logo and allows you to vote its reputation UP or DOWN. If you’re not familiar with the company, you can click on the logo to transfer yourself to the CrunchBase description. It’s all quite nice and could be less transferry, but it’s a very neat and practical way to learn about many of the new companies out there in the big web.

http://appengine.crunchbase.com/