Quoted: Five companies we heard a lot about in 2009, and some predictions of what we might expect from them over the next 365 days.

Quoted: So by overhyping Wave, failing to communicate how to use it, and inviting the public in too early, Google bungled its own dream here. To quote Nelson from The Simpsons, “Ha ha.”

An IMDb iPhone app ... finally!

Quoted: After all, there are very few Web sites that are better suited to having a mobile app or a mobile Web site than IMDb. Fortunately, our friends at TUAW have pointed us to the new official IMDb app [iTunes link] for the iPhone and the iPod touch.

Quoted: As a quick review to create GZip content on the server generically I created a couple simple static utility functions that can be called from anywhere to dynamically encode dynamic ASP.NET content:

Quoted: The official unveiling is tonight, but we have the first images of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo now, attached to its mothership, Eve. SpaceShipTwo is the first commercial passenger spacecraft in history, and it is oh-so-beautiful.

Quoted: Disney is revving up to remake one of its most expensive science-fiction endeavors, The Black Hole. The minds behind Tron Legacy are involved, but can they duplicate the PG-rated terror of the original?

Quoted: Called Cliqset FeedProxy, the service consumes user activity feeds from more than 70 online services like Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Last.fm, Yelp and LibraryThing and then produces an outbound feed that's compliant with the ActivityStreams standard format.

Damn hippies.

Quoted: Staffers for Mike McGinn, Seattle's mayor-elect, have asked the city's technology department to explore the possibility of switching the mayor's office from Windows PCs to Macs to let them stick with the technology they've been using, according to a post by Eli Sanders of the Stranger.

Quoted: The Fab Four did not set the video game world on fire with the launch of The Beatles Rock Band. The game was one of the most overhyped in game history, with a buildup that was similar to last year’s Spore, which sold millions of units but was still a disappointment.