Day: March 22, 2009

Facebook’s New Look. Good or Bad?

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have you seen the new look of facebook?
Seems not many are happy with the new look.
I myself make it loud and clear that I hate facebook and it’s interactivity.
The place is the antisocial network. You can’t call it a social network if the only
friends you can have, are friends you already have.

webpro posts votes on facebooks looks

We are not happy, and we are not stupid

Despite those numbers, despite rabid user loyalty, you’re losing money, so much money you got delisted from Forbes’ Masters of the Universe Billionaires list. At the same time another social network, much smaller than yours with less functionality and more questionable future, is gaining a lot of buzz and membership.

Internet Explorer released

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Well here we are passed the whole” let’s catch up with firefox” phase of adding tabs. Let’s see if explorer caught up on the whole ” well let’s let them see the page they are trying to access , before we ask them if they want to save the password.” One thing I hate is when a page will not load until I select yes or no on save password “what if I typoed”.

Some have informative responses (kinda)
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5937995.ece

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, said: “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”

but here is the actual page so you can evaluate for yourself
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Now you can quickly display websites that were designed for older browsers. If you’re looking at a page and the text or images aren’t lined up right, just use the new Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button on the Address Bar.

Cloud Computing taking off?

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Looks like everyone is buzzing about cloud computing right now.
Cnet
I don’t think I trust the whole “cloud” computing crap.. The whole being in it’s name is very broad and leaves to much to your imagination, and turns out … quite cloudy.

but again, the whole day is nothing but cloud this
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS+FEATURES-qqqm=nav-qqqid=40434-qqqx=1.asp

and Cloud that
http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?p=590

So the word of the day is “Cloud”

Gaming Convention Hit by Recession?

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_GAME_CONFERENCE_ECONOMY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-03-22-13-05-26

Might be fear mongering on the side of “aP” but who knows.
I am quite sure the gaming industry will stay fine, unless electricity costs go up.

Bolstered by an ever-expanding audience that is turning to games for cheaper entertainment, video games are benefiting in some ways from the economic turmoil. Yet the industry is not completely immune, with layoffs and closings of studios that produce games. Electronic Arts Inc., the game publisher behind the “Madden” football series, is cutting 1,000 jobs, most by the end of this month.

Social media getting shot back at.

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looks like yelp.com is under fire
according to
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_SOCIAL_WEB_GROWING_PAINS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The complaints highlight an irony for Web sites that stimulate online communities and let users speak their minds. As the sites make the world more transparent, giving people the power to discuss everything from a great pizza to a bad date, the sites’ own transparency is often questionable, as consumers and businesses struggle to understand how they operate.