First impression: Google delivered, I’ve never used a browser this fast. It’s great.
Yesterday, a cartoon was prematurely leaked detailing Google’s vision for what a browser could look like. Now, 24 hours later I’m reviewing what until yesterday was a well kept secret.
So here’s my first impressions.
Fast and responsive. What can I say? Firefox 3 was [...]
Also tagged firefox, reviewsWhat Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t.
Business week has an interesting article on the economics of platforms. Interesting, but flawed. They compare two platforms (Facebook, and Apple’s mobile platform). The argument goes roughly as follows: Apple is using it’s platform to create a new market by being open and Facebook is using traditional methods of using [...]
Songbird Blog » Songbird Beta is Released!.
Having played with several milestone builds of songbird, I was keen to try this one. This is a big milestone for this music player & browser hybrid. Since I’ve blogged on this before, I will keep it short.
The good:
New feathers (songbird lingo for UI theme) looks great. Only criticism [...]
Also tagged itunes, reviewsGoogle announced their friend connect yesterday. It’s part of what is a pretty broad, and in my view really smart, strategy that they have been rolling out over the past few months bit by bit. It all started with open social which is their social network API that allows gadget creators to target any social [...]
Also tagged openid, social networksThere is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, beer, microsoft, nokia, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsIn the past few days I’ve attended the Internet Of Things conference in Zurich. If you’re keeping an eye on my flickr feed, you might have noticed a few photos tagged with iot2008. I was responding to the invitation to put photos under that tag but so far I seem to be the only person [...]
Also tagged travelingI’ve been using Google Analytics on my site for a while and it is really great. Recently my good friend Mark de Lange, who designs and owns web sites such as drukenbestel.nl (in Dutch) for a living, pointed out that Google also has a great web masters section with lots of useful tools and goodies. [...]
Also tagged webdevelopmentOK, straight to the core. I assume you got your news elsewhere.
Link 1:outgoing links (as expressed on my blog using xfn): link.
Link 2: outgoing links from outgoing links (as linked on my blog): link.
Link 3: incoming links (using xfn): link (thanks Christian, others use XFN already ….).
Thanks Google! So simple, so nice to have.
Also tagged microformatsI’m looking into doing a little cryptographic stuff in python. Nothing fancy, just some standard stuff. Not for the first time I’m bumping into this brick wall of “batteries included”, the notion that the python library comes with a lot of stuff that should be good enough for whatever you need to do. Only problem [...]
Also tagged java, python, webdevelopmentIt seems JanRain is finally readying the final version of OpenID 2.0. There’s a great overview of some concerns that I mostly share on readwriteweb.com. Together with another recent standard (OAuth), OpenID 2.0 could be a huge step forward for web security and privacy.
Lets start with what OpenID is about and why, generally, it is [...]
