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Why Google Gets The Browser With Chrome

Aside from speed. I made the full migration from FireFox over the past week, in those odd moments I wasn't otherwise swamped. Now I see what Google understands about the browser, that Microsoft has missed, FireFox lost and Apple will take it's own, misguided role with Safari on.

Internet Explorer :
Bogs itself down trying to do everything and doing nothing. Weak on "extensions" and add-ons, slower than all of them out there and working far too hard to keep you in the Microsoft ecosystem. But then I am a Mac user after all.

Safari :
Makes for a nice " clean " experience, fast enough as a browser, but not much in the way of "extensions", in fact, practically nothing. It's certainly smooth as a UI and I ... Read more...

The Choice To Turn It Off

Two things strike me about the technology revolution underway today; 1) we've never before, in the history of humanity, been able to communicate like we do today and 2) we made the choice to participate in all these media channels we have available.

Email, Facebook , Bebo, Chat, Instant Messenger, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, Twitter , Flickr , YouTube; exist because we chose to use them. Enough people made that choice that they become commonplace.

As a result, today we feel our attention incredibly divided. I call it the " 90 Second Economy " as everything happens in such small bytes of information. We, the people, made a choice to participate and to consume. My company measure this... Read more...

Some Things Just Can't Go Digital

Netflix has been out there on the Web renting movies for a while, in Canada it's zip.ca and now YouTube is announcing it's renting films through it's portal. Hey, I watch a lot of vids on YouTube, DailyMotion and Vimeo I admit.

But I like going to my physical, local video store. I have all these alternate, so-called easier options. I have an Apple TV unit, I can rent from Apple and stream to my HD TV, or watch YouTube videos, use zip.ca, download an illegal Bitorrent (I don't do that, don't like that illegal downloading.) I have all these tools, I use them in different ways, I'm not a Luddite (not entirely anyway.)

We're making more and more activities "digital" but selecting my videos at the video st... Read more...