Firefox vs. Chrome… who cares?
Thu, May 20th 2010 at 12:24pm
After reading a short Tech Crunch Story about Chrome vs. Firefox market share I found myself thinking, who cares about this? For years there has been a push by developers and supports of open standard pushing Firefox over Internet Explorer, mainly because Microsoft was trying to control the web via their own standards by not supporting Open Standards and pushing their own versions of HTML, Javascript, etc. Personally I think the more browsers there are the better, just as long as they all support the standards.
That is why proposed “battle” between Firefox and Chrome that TechCrunch is pushing does not really exist. They are both excellent browsers and both support the Open Web-standards. So does it really matter to anyone beside Google and the Mozilla Foundation which browser has a larger market share? I don’t think so.
For me this is the future of computing, a completely open set of standards and technologies that make the type of computer, phone, web browsers, tablet you are using irrelevant. They all talk to each other and work.
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Google Buzz Take 2
Fri, April 2nd 2010 at 09:16pm
If like me you have not looked at Google Buzz very much since the initial release, you might consider taking another look. I have been reading the Google blog for a while, and noticed several posts over the last few weeks about updates they have made. For me the biggest of those changes is smarter comment collapses.
My biggest complaint about Buzz was that I could not read posts from people I followed without scrolling through several pages of comments first. After the comment collapse changes it is now much better. I can easily skim the people I follow, and if something is interesting expand the comments and join in the discussion.
Keep up the good work Google, Buzz still does not differentiate itself enough from Twitter and Facebook. But if changes keep coming I think it will find it’s place in time.
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Google Buzz – What’s the Difference?
Sun, February 28th 2010 at 11:21am
After using Buzz for a little while it seems to be quite a different animal than Twitter or Facebook. While all three services are similar for the user posting the way they all handle replies from other users is what sets them apart.
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What is Pubsubhubsub?
Wed, August 12th 2009 at 12:02am
After watching TWIg (This Week in Google) Episode 1 about a week ago found out about Pubsubhubsub. It sounded interesting because it seems like this protocol or something like it is going to be important to Google Wave in the future. I have not had a chance to play with Google Wave yet, but from what I saw its goal is to do everything in real time, including interactions with websites, blogs, forums and comments.
With the current polling syndication system this is impossible to do without polling every website you are interested in multiple times a second. Pubsubhubsub is building on the current syndication spec and adding push notifications to it, thus allowing real time updates from any enabled site with a syndicated feed. In this post I am going to go over a little more of what I have learnt about PSHS and what it does and how to enable it with WordPress. more »
Google Address/Search Bar in Firefox
Sat, July 4th 2009 at 02:50pm
After using Chrome for just a few weeks I have already become accustom to the great address bar functionality it provides. With just one address bar where you can type addresses, searches, without thinking about it is a great thing. Now I am using Firefox 3.5 again I started searching for ways to duplicate the functionality and found something a little disturbing.
It seems that Google has already patented that functionality, and I am not sure how I feel about that.
First I hate patents on basic more »
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Chrome it’s the little things…
Fri, June 12th 2009 at 03:23am
One of the first things I noticed about Chrome after moving from Firefox is the lack of the quick search box. At first I thought I would miss this alot because I use the quick search box in Firefox all the time. However Chrome’s address bar is more intuitive and powerful than Firefox’s and does the job of address and quick search box perfectly well.
In Firefox when you start typing you get a list of suggestions from your history and bookmarks. But you have to physically select an item from the list using the arrow keys and enter, or the mouse.
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Switching to Chrome for a Bit.
Tue, June 9th 2009 at 03:20am
I have been using Firefox forever, but I just decided to give Google Chrome a real shot to see how I like it. And my first impression of it is the awesome speed. All the PR about the speed of Chrome seems to be true in my limited subjective experience with it. Just browsing all my normal websites I see a noticeable display time improvement. JavaScript heavy pages (i.e. Gmail) in particular load very quickly. Even graphic heavy pages seem to load more snappily.
The release of Chrome is just great for all of us. Now that web standards are starting to become well… standard, for all browsers except for IE, the more browsers the better. With Chrome, Opera, and Safari all focusing heavily on performance Firefox is already starting to follow suite.
Chrome is good so far, and I hope it keeps moving along.
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GMail Increasing Storage?
Mon, October 15th 2007 at 11:57am
I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that the GMail storage on my account has been going up very quickly. In the past the counter on the login page has been going up slowly, and was more of a gimmick. But in the last week or so I noticed the total storage capacity jumped up from 2.9GB to just over 3GB. Then this morning I logged in and it’s at 3.35GB’s.
That may not sound like a lot by todays standards, but when you multiply nearly 0.5GB by all the GMail users you can see that Google is making significant push to add more storage. I wonder if this could be a prelude to an announcement that could rival Yahoo!’s recent move to unlimited storage?
UPDATE 12/22/07: Looks like Google really was increasing the storage. Ever since this post the storage on GMail has been going up much faster than in the past. Currently my account is quickly approaching 6GB.
Still not unlimited like Yahoo!, but obviously Yahoo! does not really provide unlimited storage for every user. It’s more of a marketing gimmick. I actually respect Google a little more for not jumping in and saying the same thing.
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Google Reader Alpha – Review
Sun, June 10th 2007 at 09:29pm
Recently I have found that my list of regular websites that I like to visit everyday has been getting longer and longer. So I started looking into RSS Feed aggregators to automatically monitor my favorite websites for me, and make it much easier to view the results. Google reader has matured into an awesome application, which fits the bill very well.
This is a review of the Labs version of Google reader. Applications in Google Labs are not considered by Google to be ready for full release and use, so they are probably missing features, and functionality that will be added at the time of it’s full release. So this article is a just look at the early release.
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