* They sniff around in the archives for 'Search Engines'

Google Chrome in browser war

September 2, 2008 | No Comments »

It is not because all Google products or acquisitions that ends in great success and beat competitors. It is first and foremost their search engine and its AdSense / AdWords, which has enabled them to great advantage. But that is the development and other new initiatives certainly interesting to follow in. Both of the private interest of good products, but also academically based on business models for Internet companies today.

Google now challenging Microsoft and their Internet Explorer to launch Google Chrome:

A colleague recently made me aware that the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in "InPrivate Blocking". Evil tongues in the network forums and blogs writes that it is an anti-Google weapons to prevent services like. Google or other (Gemius, Wonder Loop, etc.) to capture information about users, or "Ad targets." Likewise, the fact is that IE8 will automatically forward queries for addresses to Microsoft Live Maps.

It is not just Internet Explorer that may be affected by Google Chrome. Despite the fact Firefox is also the next three years (new contract just signed http://news.cnet.com/ ) is partly funded by Google, by having them as your default search engine in the browser so it can mean a farewell to development of this browser if Google gets more success with their own?

Immediately it is not because our Danish online services business is under threat of Google Chrome, but the situation around the new browsers raises yet a number of issues that are worth pondering.

Blog Lines - track of the subscriptions

August 13, 2008 | No Comments »

Behind blogs exist both a powerful technology and an interesting communication behavior. Gradually I started to follow many people, magazines, and partly also of businesses or professional blogs. It is far from a new phenomenon and it is not because blogs have evolved particularly in recent years.

The kick-off must have been in January when I decided to gather all the blogs I read around (when else I remembered them). The concept is simple: Instead of that I visit every site to see what has happened lately (as if I can remember when I last was on the side), then it has now happened to me directly.

Because Bloglines retrieves feeds / XML, then presented various sites content on a page. I have chosen to sort the sites that I subscribe to, in different folders and read them, depending on interest. Specifically, this means eg. That I for example. get new "messages" from 13 different sites within the literature. This applies to both the established as Literature Since , Part P and the airship , as well as currently less active solo writers Cicely Lolk Hjort and Martin Larsen.

One of the meanings have been that I have created my own news site with information that could be relevant for me. A sort of long tail of news. Especially on issues like 'web search' and 'emerging trends in Social Networking' I am now demanded daily with the latest Shiite.

With 98 feeds daily spit up to 500 messages in my direction, it may be difficult to keep up with everything. But it certainly was not easy before. Quite the contrary. The advantages include easy access to news sources (one place and quickly) and monitoring of blogs with low publishing rate.

Bloglines has a simple and usable interface, fast response time and allows for archiving of blogs. It uses I do if I need to read something I think looks interesting. Will I save a post I've read, I use del.icio.us . Bloglines has existed since 2003 and is called a feed aggregator (see Wikipedia ). Journalisten.dk have made ​​an intro to how to get started.

A week's vacation may soon mean that I can not get through the many new messages. But I also have my bookmarks online, which I then select and read while the rest are marked "read" without that I will spare them a thought. The next blog post on http://www.re-aktion.dk/ going to be about the sites I think is really interesting at the moment.