Google releases its first 64-bit Chrome web browser candidate

We're starting to get somewhere! I've been on various mailing lists keep an eye on this for a while, wondering when this was going to happen! See here for further details.

Chrome rendering engine will get faster, lighter, and better offline in 2014

So Webkit is being forked for Blink. I certainly hope Chrome gets lighter and faster as promised!

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/chrome-rendering-engine-will-get-faster-lighter-and-better-offline-in-2014/

http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq

PirateBrowser Hits 500,000 Downloads, Tor Traffic Surges

Reported by Torrent news site Torrent Freak:

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-browser-hits-500000-downloads-130830/

Mozilla, Otoy debut high-speed codec for any browser with no plug-ins

Simply using HTML5 and JavaScript (With Otoy's proprietary library):

ORBX.js is the library is question.

Mozilla and Otoy plan to demo the technology at a press roundtable in San Francisco at 10:30am Pacific time on Friday, along with Autodesk, which helped fund development of ORBX.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/03/mozilla_otoy_announce_orbx/

RuneScape

Some times I wonder why people bother with making need MMO's... There are already so many good ones out there.

I didn't play RuneScape too much, although I did start when I first got an interview for them (I declined in the end) but it certainly was fun.

Here's a cool infographic to show just how expansive the universe of it really is:
http://www.runescape.com/200million/infographics.ws

First Xbox live browser game with achievements

It's Wordament, which seems to be being thrown onto any platform Microsoft catches sight of. Probably BB OS10 and Android next...

http://www.wpcentral.com/wordament-first-browser-game-xbox-achievements

Want a better Facebook experience.. don't use their apps!

Sencha Fastbook from Sencha on Vimeo.

http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-love-story