Tag: flock

  • Screaming fast browser II

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    I wrote a post the other day giving speeds of various browsers running the SunSpider JavaScript Benchnark tests. Since writing the post Firefox has released Firefox 3.0b3 and Robert made me aware in the comments of the previous browser speed post that Opera 9.5 beta was released so I decided to check those two browsers…

  • Screaming fast browser?

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    After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…

  • Richard MacManus' predictions for 2007

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    Richard MacManus, over on Read/WriteWeb has an extremely comprehensive must read post on his forecast for what will be hot in 2007. His predictions for 2007: RSS will go mainstream Structured data will be a big trend Widgets will continue rising in 2007 Web Office will continue to ramp up The consumerization of the enterprise…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • JUploadr – free photo uploading app

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    Previously I wrote about how easy uploading photos to Flickr is using Flock. Since then Thomas Hawk turned me on to Steve Cohen’s cross-platform, open source photo uploader JUploadr. Why do I like it? Well, it is GPL’d for a start. Cross-platform It allows me to upload photos to my accounts on Flickr and Zooomr…

  • Flock browser review

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    I have been using Flock since it was first released last year and I have been impressed at its progress (if a little frustrated at it’s rate of progress!). I like the seamless implementation of social media like Del.icio.us and Flickr into Flock. In fact, it was Flock which got me into using Del.icio.us. Flock…

  • Is there something in the air?

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    Om Malik announced today he is leaving his job at Business 2.0 to setup a new business. Robert Scoble let slip that he is leaving Microsoft to join a startup, at a bloggers dinner the other night. Tara Hunt announced last week that she’s leaving Riya to go out on her own. Ben Metcalf has…

  • Cool new Firefox plug-in

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    Hyperwords was released yesterday and it is a very cool extension for Firefox and Flock. It has been developed by Liquid-Information an interesting company with an advisory board that reads like a who’s who in IT (Doug Engelbart, Vint Cerf, Ted Nelson, Bruce Horn, Dave Farber, Joi Ito, etc. What does it do? Well, the…