The Google Reader team just launched a new tool for sharing and voting ideas from the users. It’s called “Product Ideas for Google Reader” and it takes feedback to a whole new level! I distinctly remember trying it on a while back, probably last year, when it most likely was just a new Google experiment.
I don’t use Yahoo! mail very often, despite the fact it offers unlimited storage. I have moved all my relevant conversations to Gmail ever since it launched. Now I use the Yahoo! mailbox as an online storage for all the large files I might need sometime in the future.
When I logged in today, I was greeted with a message announcing changes to the interface. The part about filtering messages from connections and contacts was already available for some time. What really caught my eye was the interface redesign.
I guess you’re not really huge until a big rock star recommends you to the fans. That happened on Facebook yesterday when Mike Shinoda posted a video on the Linkin Park fan page, explaining how to use the newly-introduced name-tagging when posting about their favorite band:
Or is it actually the other way around? Is Facebook now so big, everybody who is or wants to be somebody must get connected here? After all, there are not many artists who can say they have sold their albums to more than 250 Million people, which is a conservative estimate of the current Facebook audience. Probably fewer than 10 in the entire modern music history, according to Wikipedia.
Update: err, better make that “more than 300 Million people”, as of yesterday! 50 Million new users in 75 days, a remarkably strong growth! I’m curious how long it will take for the next 50 Million to join…
Google Chrome, the new browser that took the computer world by surprise in September 2008, celebrated its one-year anniversary earlier this month. In this relatively short time it has already reached version 4 on the development channel, putting it on par with much older projects like Firefox and Safari. Despite it's revolutionary features and fresh interface, Google's project didn't manage to secure a significant market share; current reports put it at only 2-3% usage worldwide. The recent deal with Sony could change that, by introducing the browser to a broader consumer base.
In a previous article I’ve detailed how to add a custom link to Google Reader that sends the article to the shortening service bit.ly. In the mean time I have discovered how to add other services to this great tool built in to Reader. They are probably less popular than others already mentioned on the web, but still useful to a lot of Internet users.
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Recently I was away from my desktop PC for a week, traveling through the country in my summer holiday. Luckily I discovered several WLAN hot-spots there so I could connect with my mobile phone. I discovered some new interesting things about the online applications I regularly use in their mobile form and I thought I share them with you.
dacă ai avea așa vreo 6-7 vieți s-ar merita să tragi la greu într-una din ele
. Ea m-a dus imediat cu gândul la cartea pe care o aveam cu mine ca provizie pentru orele de zbor și cele două seri lipsite de acces la Internet și de programe TV interesante, volumul II din Steaua Pandorei de Peter F. Hamilton.
Aceasta e una dintre cele două mari idei pe care se bazează universul autorului: ce-ar fi dacă știința medicală a viitorului, combinată cu cibernetica, ne-ar oferi “tinerețea fără bătrânețe și viața fără de moarte”? Pe de o parte tratamente periodice de reîntinerire rezolvă orice boală, cauzată de bătrânețe sau chiar de ereditate, iar de moarte se ocupă implanturi cerebrale care stochează amintirile și personalitatea fiecăruia, pentru a le transfera într-un nou corp clonat în eventualitatea unui accident nefericit. Chiar dacă corpul original e pierdut definitiv, copii de siguranță suficient de dese asigură că un “reviat” nu pierde mai mult de câteva zile din existența lui anterioară. Și astfel fiecare individ are la dispoziție un număr teoretic nelimitat de noi începuturi și oportunități, de la o nouă slujbă la o viață de relaxare completă, de la un nou partener de viață la mutarea pe o altă planetă. Iar moartea “adevărată” e limitată la lumile încă nedezvoltate de la marginile Commonwealth-ului uman.