Normally, I would be very, very skeptical about anything trying to take on an established, market dominating service. I’m not going to be this time. I think this could be quite a great move by Facebook. Exciting! Will it be as good and properly compete with Gmail? That remains to be seen. There are two [...]
It is the weirdest thing. I was having issues subscribing to blogs that is using pubsubhubbub.appspot.com using a Python script. It returned a 500 Internal Server error without fail. So I rewrote the process in PHP and like magic, it is gone… I used PHP and CURL to subscribe to the appspot service. In Python [...]
I’m ecstatic! Finally the wait for the Google Chrome browser is over. I have to say, my first impressions justify the long wait. I’m in fact putting Firefox on the same shelf as IE, only using it to test web sites. On the Mac and OS X Chrome does not disappoint one bit. It is [...]
Lately Google announced a wide array of new products and features. The Google Chrome browser, Google Wave, Android and Google Chrome OS are the ones immediately coming to mind. This morning I saw they released Go. Their own experimental programming language. Go is not a scripting (a.k.a. interpreted) language, but a compiled language like C [...]
Google announced today their new Google Chrome OS. As they put it: “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” and “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” If one thinks about it, it makes a lot of sense what Google is [...]
Still on the Bing.com train. I’m still impressed with the results it delivers when searching technical or programming issues compared with Google. Results are relevant and good. I’m liking it. Sadly, I cannot say the same for everything else… I started reading Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series and finished the first book, so I [...]
Could it possibly be?! I mean, I’m NOT a Microsoft fan AT ALL. In fact, the further I can stay away from their products, the better I feel. Luckily I thought I’d give it a shot and check out Bing.com, Microsoft’s new search engine. To my surprise and delight it doesn’t suck! In fact, I’d [...]
Its been a while since I’ve felt this conflicted about new technology. Google describes Google Wave as “email if it was developed for the first time today”. A lot has been said about Google Wave and I’m not going to go into how it works. What I do think though is that people have either [...]
I read this interesting article on MyBroadband about Google vs. Facebook. Basically what they’re saying: Internet users are increasingly looking for answers to their search questions, not just a list of sites in response to a query. We’ve grown accustomed to knowing how to optimize our search queries, simply to get the best result. Then [...]