Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Last year I pointed to the fact that Google is trying to impose their search engine into Internet Explorer 7. At that moment it didn’t seem such a big deal because I thought (and I still do) that Mozilla’s Firefox will get a bigger market share.
Today while reading a good post on Vista’s UI by Luke Wroblewski, the things gotclearer and the big picture revealed. Windows Explorer is based on Internet Explorer and Vista’s WE will be based on IE7 by that having a search box on the right top corner. Considering the fact that on Vista, to local search results will be added web results AND maybe advertising, a competitor winning that litlle corner will hit Microsoft just below the belt.
By the moment Vista will be officialy launched I bet that the Google Desktop will perfectly work with it and more and more regular Joe’s will use it.
Nice one Google
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006
Spotted via Guillaume and Search Engine Watch the new Yahoo! product line: Yahoo! Go
The product line continues to target the desktop (after the good start made with the aquisition of Konfabulator - now Yahoo! Widget Engine) but also goes to new areas like TV and mobile.
What Guillaume missed from the screenshot is that beside a Vista like sidebar (or Google Sidebar), Yahoo! Go Desktop features a nice browser window with Yahoo shortcuts. This might be the work of the XUL hackers wanted on the Jeremy Zawodny blog last year (It has tabs and I bet a one month payment that is not IE based).
The time I am writing this post the apps are not available for download but Search Engine Watch says:
The suite will be formally announced by Yahoo CEO Terry Semel at CES keynote today
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
This one was too great not to link it
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Allpeers
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
Anyone will agree Michael Arrington that Allpeers will be one of the causes for which IE will loose a few millions of users:
In my opinon this single firefox extension will massively increase the attractiveness of that already popular browser, drawing more millions away from embattled Internet Explorer.
Allpeers in their own words is:
… is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
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It’s nice to see Yahoo trying to gain users from the entertainment industry
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TV content might be a battle where Yahoo tops over Google
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Free cross platform encryption software
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just saw the New Years Eve present from the Netvibes team: ToDo Module. Eventhough it needs a litlle more ajax (like fading finished tasks) it’s an useful addon. Keep up the good work France 
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Gray Hat News did a nice job building a quizz based on some 2005 events. You can find most of the answers using Google of course or if you are very very lazy here
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