Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc. on Graded Browser Support. She concludes the piece with a quote from Tim Berners-Lee:
“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
Yahoo also publish a table that shows the level of support each browser receives.
Jonathan Loades-Carter on whether Google can still stand by their “don’t do evil” motto given recent developments in China and given the invasive nature of their cookie policy/search tracking. Also covers Microsoft and their response to recent criticism on censorship.
WSJ.com reports on Google bidding to offer a free and open Wi Fi service to the City of San Francisco and looks at what it means for more traditional telecoms companies.
Ironically, most of the newer, bigger Internet entrants see telecom services almost as an afterthought, not a key product. Companies like Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft and eBay consider free voice just an add-on service they can provide consumers to win their business loyalty and make their main businesses more attractive. For example, eBay customers could buy and sell more if they can talk to each other. EBay and Google have even said explicitly they are not seeking to compete with telecoms. But whether it’s deliberate or not, some industry executives and analysts think their plans potentially could steamroll the telecom model.
“I believe that free voice is going to be ubiquitous not in 10 years; within two or three years,” News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch told a Goldman Sachs investor conference last month.
WSJ.com points out that – despite widespread speculation – Google have stated they have no plans to extend the service nationally if it is successful.
Sony LIBRIe – The first ever E-Ink e-Book Reader
Looks quite promising for a first generation product. Would you read a newspaper on one?
www.onestat.com report indicates searchers are getting more sophisticated – nearly 80% of users now use 2 or more term when searching.
1. 2 word phrases 32.58%
2. 3 word phrase 25.61%
3. 1 word phrases 19.02%
4. 4 word phrases 12.83%
5. 5 word phrases 5.64%
6. 6 word phrases 2.32%
7. 7 word phrases 0.98%
Also – useful Interactive Google Tutorial.
[Via - Boing Boing Blog].
New Vocaloid software developed at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain (and financed by Yamaha) could allow consumers to have their own lyrics (or anything else they fancy) sung by a synthesised version of favourite artists. Even dead ones. The New York Times describes the breakthrough in synthesised voice technology and explains that the synthesised voices can be thought of as “voice fonts”.
Wired reports that computer crackers have joined forces with spammers to develop websites that are pretty much untraceable.
One group in Poland is currently advertising “invisible bulletproof hosting” in online forums for spammers. For $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such as traceroute and whois.
Wired reports that a Princeton graduate student said Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer: Press the Shift key.
