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Google Chrome 4
A new stable version of Google’s Chrome browser has been released. The Official Google Blog says:
Today we’re excited to introduce a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two of the browser’s most frequently requested features: extensions and bookmark sync.
Extensions let you add new features and functions to your browser. Some provide [...]
Running out of Web addresses
Although it might seem that there is an infinity of ways to write Web addresses, especially with the recent allowance of new languages and alphabets, that is nowhere near the case. The problem is that actual Web addresses are not what you usually see but are 32-bit numbers in a system called IPv4. Thus, the [...]
Web 3.0?
If you were never quite sure what Web 2.0 meant, add the term “Web 3.0″ to the confusion. According to the presentation from a Dutch think tank called ECP-EPN that is shown below, Web 3.0 is the interaction of intelligent agents with all kinds of devices as well as users. The video clip may make [...]
Google addiction
My wife suggested that I post the cartoon below. “All too true”, she says.
Source: The New Yorker Magazine, January 18, 2010
Does the Web have a culture of nastiness?
Following up yesterday’s post on the problem of intellectual property on the Internet, consider Nick Bilton’s related discussion in the New York Times Bits blog entitled, Can We Change the Web’s Culture of Nastiness? Continuing the discussion of Jaron Lanier’s new book, “You Are Not a Gadget”, Bilton writes:
The other notion discussed in the review [...]
Internet Explorer flaw behind recent hacks at Google and others
Whatever Microsoft may claim, Internet Explorer (IE) has been the weak security link in a lot of hacker exploits. The latest IE security breach being reported involves the hacking attacks just reported by Google and numerous other companies. At first, malformed PDFs using Adobe Reader weaknesses were blamed but now fingers are pointing at IE [...]
Everything connected
There are a growing number of devices that can be directly connected to the Internet without having to use a PC. The recent Consumer Electronics Show featured quite a few of these. Om Malik reports at his blog:
The recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show brought home one simple fact: We will soon be hard-pressed to find [...]
The “Deep Web”
Many Internet surfers are probably unaware that less than 1% of the Internet has been indexed by search engines. (No one knows the exact fraction.) This enormous, largely unknown mass of many terabytes of information is often called the “Deep Web” or the “Dark Web”. Some parts of it are indeed “dark” in that they [...]
Comment crud
If you want to be discouraged about the general state of human intelligence, go to one of the popular blog spots like ZDNet and read the comments. Inane or garbled or irrelevant remarks abound. They often sound like 12-year olds in a schoolyard trash-talk match. Although there is an occasional useful item buried in [...]
The dangers of tailoring your news
A lot of people use some form of aggregator to collect Internet stories and posts on those subjects that concern them. And that’s all they read. At first it sounds like a good idea; tailor your searches and news sources to reflect your particular interests. There’s just too much information on the Internet so aggregating [...]
Making Web pages more readable
As they cram more and more advertising onto Web pages, the clutter can make it hard to read the actual content. I have noticed several references to a little browser add-on that aims to cut the clutter. I had been trying it out and today David Pogue listed it as the year’s best tech idea [...]
