Posts Tagged ‘google’

Friday Five – Michael Jackson Edition 03/07/2009

// July 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // web thoughts

The sad passing of music legend Michael Jackson saw some very interesting online impacts from traffic surges on social media sites, through to chart topping sales of digital downloads. As the dust begins to settle a number of sites have looked at the impact it had online:

  • Social media gurus FreshNetworks look at the rise of Flash Mobs to celebrate the life and music of MJ. Some great YouTube clips on there.

  • Times Online highlights the power of Twitter for real-time news (Every article like this must make Google cringe).

  • Twitter and Facebook had massive usage increases as the news spread, the Tech Blog at the LA Times looks at the numbers.

  • The LA Times looks back at how gossip website TMZ stole the limelight from TV news channels all over the world.

  • TechCrunch reports that the web as a whole struggled to deliver information as everyone rushed online to get the news.

Google Chrome

// September 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // web thoughts

Just when it appeared that the browser wars had a stable number of competitors, a huge new giant one appears on the horizon – Google Chrome. Using a rendering engine based on a combination of Safari’s Webkit and Firefox’s Gecko, Google Chrome is a super-fast new way of surfing. At the heart of this new browser is a JavaScript virtual machine, simply named V8 that claims to be hugely faster than anything else currently available.

Amazingly the Chrome project has been under-wraps since 2006 and after two-years of beavering away the team released their first Beta. First impressions have been extremely positive, with the Google T&C’s being the only bone of contention. Google quickly swept away this negative press by posting an updated version and only time will tell what kind of market share they can expect. Posting a link from their homepage certainly won’t do any harm!