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11/20/09
More recently, there was this: [en.wikipedia.org]
The purpose of this collaboration is unknown, but it is not new news.
11/20/09
Corps and end users really don't care where their data will end up -- at least our wonderful government *does*.
This evolutionary move just warms my blackened heart.
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08/15/09
I really still don't understand how Facebook managed to create so much clutter while actually removing things from the feed.
08/12/09
maybe I just need more interesting 'friends'
08/12/09
Once I figured out how to silence unwanted entities (high school friends, Gawker commenters, promoters) it sort of worked out okay for me, post remodel. Like most tools, you need to learn to use it to enjoy it.
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07/09/09
Back in 1995, Netscape and Sun were going to create a new browser-based "OS" that was going to render Windows and MacOS obsolete, but it simply didn't work. Now web application programmers are using hideous kludges like AJAX and writing glacially slow Javascript. Everyone's trying to make Javascript run faster and inventing things like HTML 5 to make up for all the shortcomings of the ill-defined, incompatibility-plagued browser platform. What a mess.
07/09/09
07/09/09
IMO releasing this Chrome+Linux-kernel thing would definitelly cement google's position as the next MSFT (and be a big "F U" to all those linux nerds out there).
Expect nothing but a netbook/x86 version of WebOS: it's going to be Chrome runing on top of linux, BUT the big difference is that you never click on the colored sphere, you just click on google apps, and those open a custom window with a nice smooth effect, just like in the Pre.
Problem? well, if you are out of signal, you're SOL, just like the other day when one of my coworkers was out in the field and got lost when his phone couldn't download the google maps he needed.
Anyway, the fact is that even with the retard-proof chrome, mozilla, the "pro's choice" is still eating MSFT crappy browser's market share.
The catch is that GOOG may find the way to convince OEMs to put the gOS for free on their machines, making them cheaper than Win ones.
Obviously you need people realise they can continue with their timewasting activities effortlessly in the gOS, or else everybody is going to keep paying for their crappy windows copy.
07/11/09
Why wouldn't it be much of a leap for them to do the same with GOOG? In fact, if GOOG does their driver testing it's almost a shoe in.
07/08/09
Since when? There's no Linux version available on Google's site.
Or is he saying something completely different that only happens to sound like something else that is false?
07/08/09
People who aren't geeks--which I arbitrarily say is 98% of the public--could give a monkey's nut. The target audience is not business and geeks who feel they can "improve" everything. The target is the stereo-typical "American family" who want to watch porn, check email, and post pictures to their geneology page.
Google is a brand name they recognize. Simple, brilliant.
(And FWIW, HTML5 is expected to be adopted around summer 2010. The same time the Google netbook will retail. One will encourage the use of the other, something I'm sure hasn't been lost on Google.)
07/09/09