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Nov 30 2009

SideWiki, WAVE and the Future of the Web; Is Google a Trusted Partner?

Category: community building, lifestreaming, social media, tech opinion — jmacofearth @ 1:43 pm

If you missed SideWiki like I have it might be, like me, you don't use the Google Toolbar in your browser. Well, thanks to buddy Michael Brito who published this link to is self-sidewikied entry to is own facebook page, I am now a SWiki-er. I've been a wiki fan for a while, but this takes things to a new level of content tagging and yet another disruptive technology from Google.

So as we are moving forward we can tag, comment and post content about the page that we are viewing. This in and of itself is not new, but that Google has added this function rather than some "untrusted" third party. [I imagine your groans, but pause for a second. If you think Google doesn't already have all the information on you to make a VERY LARGE file, then you probably delete your cookies each time you quit FF. I have resigned myself to using Google Analytics, with Info Sharing turned on, Google Voice, iGoogle as my RSS reader of choice. Anyway, to me, Google already has the links on me so adding more info to my file is not a concern of mine. The "toolbar" on the other hand takes up a lot of screen real estate and I'm not a fan of toolbars, regardless of how innovative and useful they are.]

Here are a few questions I have about SideWiki and how we, the browsing public [not the browsing marketers], might use SideWiki to enrich our browsing experience. So for now, I have the Google Toolbar enabled [wondering if there is a different SideWiki option] and I will add a few SideWiki entries as I go around. But I bet ya, within 24 hours I've hidden the Google Toolbar again and SideWiki will fall to the bottom of my internet toolbox. Until I NEED it.

[Kinda like Google WAVE, IMHO, it will be neat when I NEED it. Right now I don't need it. I don't even really understand it, but I'm sure I will at some point.]

So are you SideWiki savvy? If not, you might get on and check it out. Even if it's just to imagine how Google might use SideWiki content to influence search results. Go figure!

@jmacofearth
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Kudos to britopian for his new gig:

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Sep 02 2008

Google Chrome Shares No Love – Am I Scared, Nah!

Category: tech opinion, tech reviews — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

The GOOGLE CHROME Launch was announced via an online comic book. But don't imagine that they are just fooling around in the browser space. Let's hope they are not kicking off an new era of "browser wars."

Okay, so what if the most powerful force on the web today entered the free browser market? And what if they controlled over 50% of the ad revenue generated on the web? And then what if they started tweaking code for "their" browser rather than everyone's browser?

Soon we might began noticing that things are looking just a bit different in FF and IE. And the pages seemed to load at about the same speed when Chrome launched definitely seem faster in Chrome. And then those cool embedded ads and adwords and blogs and widgets that are all part of the Chrome experience, and a couple of them are introduced as "chrome exclusive."

Fine call me paranoid. Don't call me a huge MS fan or anything, but this is the next step in shipping a Google OS.

It is fine to proclaim to do no evil. But will Google behave within the Open Source Community as a partner and not an enemy?

Once FF was the new kid on the block, and v3 looks pretty smooth. But are you serious, we now have to test for THREE browser formats again? Oh my. Maybe IE 8 will fix some of the things IE 7 broke. Who knows, maybe the Google OS will be good for computing on all processor platforms.

Now if Google buys Adobe, all bets are off on the evil thing.

TechCrunch does the Google Chrome cartoon as "We Really Hate Microsoft."

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