Archive for September, 2008

New browser: Google ‘Chrome’

So Google have just announced that they’ll be launching their own browser at some point today: Google ‘Chrome’. So what does this mean for us (‘us’ being the vigilant, awesome, honourable and every-so sexy web users)?

Well, I can’t speak for everyone but – upsettingly, perhaps – my first reaction is one of suspicion. The browser will provide unfettered access to user habits that Google were perhaps missing from monitoring the performance of Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Toolbar and iGoogle. I’m not sure if I want them to know all that!

But…well, they already know all that stuff. So one could argue that giving them this final bit of insight is rather a moot point, surely? And if it helps give us better results, then that’s not a bad thing…is it? Read on!
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Instant social network? Elgg 1.0 has been released

Just a quick update to say that I’ve downloaded and installed Elgg – an off-the-shelf open source social network that seems pretty packed full of rather awesome features, and is accessible!

I suggest you take a look if you’ve been thinking something along the lines of “Hmm: you know what’d be a vibrant online network? Discussions about whether bees need slippers!” or something along those lines.

http://elgg.org/