July 28, 2005
City of Guerneville
Trying to strike a balance with this post, too much web stuff lately. This weekend I'm going up to Guerneville with Katina, for the 1/2 Vineman Race. Guerneville is supposed to be a gay and lesbian destination, but I wouldn't call it the West coast equivalent of Provincetown. I was there last year but for the race so didn't get chance to see Guerneville that much. I think Guerneville is on the Russian River and there's a lot of great wineries in the Sonoma/Russian River area. One of them is Roshambo. There's a bunch out here (that's why they call the triathlon Vineman).
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July 27, 2005
Jon's got it, Yahoo!Toolbar 1.0 for Firefox
Granrose gets it. I sure hope that every product manager at Yahoo is paying attention to Jon.
If you're an Internet/Web company, it's about the browser. It always has been, it always will be so you best pay attention to what's happening in the browser world. I'm amazed by the number of so-called product managers at *web* companies who don't understand that or don't understand the basics of the Web.
When you build a web site, web application, toolbar etc, it's a checklist:
- am I generating income
- is it a good user experience
- is it cross-platform, localizable, accessible
- is it performant, speed, uptime
- will it make a difference
- what's the timing
Jon and team nailed it and they shipped! Congrats.
What's next? (jon knows what next)
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Phishing Detection Feature in IE 7
So apparently IE 7 will have or has a Phishing Filter. MSFT is going to promote it pretty heavily no doubt.
The breakdown is:
- They're likely getting the technology from Whole Security and the Phish Report Network.
- There is some sort of list for "legitimate" sites. Apparently, it's a quasi-default on feature. When you first get to a site that's not on "the list", MSFT warns you and says do you want to turn on the Phishing Filter feature.
- It's not clear whether IE 7 checks against a list that's stored on the client side that gets updated on a regular basis (what's the frequence), or if it checks against a list that's hosted server-side. Probably the former.
- Who is on that list of sites and how is it managed? Also, if it's list based, isn't this feature obsolete. You maybe able to protect some people, but the first few people will get in trouble because they never got the up to date list.
- What's the performance hit on the browser having to check against a list of "legit" sites?
I'm sure they've thought through all these issues.
Posted by rebron at 02:48 PM | Comments (0)
IE 7 and Windows Vista Beta Today?
That's what people are saying.
Can't wait to check it out.
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July 26, 2005
75 million downloads of Firefox
Another milestone, 75 million downloads of Firefox, yea.
FAQ
Q: Why are you counting downloads?
A: Because it's a metric, something we can measure. There are other metrics, downloads are one of them. Market share is another, and we're around 7-11% market share at some top sites.
Q: What's included in the download numbers?
A: We don't count updates through the the update mechanism for total downloads. We do recognize that some people will download the product multiple times or upgrade through the download links on mozilla.org. But, some folks also install Firefox on multiple machines personal, work and parent's computer and there are also corporate or school-wide deployments that are happening. Some also get Firefox on CD or other distribution method.
Q: When are you going to reach 100 million downloads?
A: Soon, hopefully.
Posted by rebron at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)
Beta Plaxo Extension for Thunderbird
Cool. A beta Plaxo extension for Thunderbird.
Fine. I knew about this press release and this extension a while back. I'll stop pretending this is news to me. What was funny though was that Mark Jen emailed me. I was like, don't I know you? Oh, that's right the infamous MSFT/Google blogger. That was pretty neat.
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July 25, 2005
konfabulator, mozilla connection
Congrats Arlo! Yahoo made a great acquisition by getting Konfabulator. What most people don't know is that Konfabulator uses Mozilla's JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey.
Just so people know because there's 1000's of people using Bugzilla (like Yahoo and NetFlix) and Mozilla doesn't get credit for that either.
Posted by rebron at 06:20 PM | Comments (0)
Mo' MiniMozilla Screenshots
**Updated**
Minimo .007 released see DougT's blog.
Google.com, notice the progress meter.
Yes, Google Maps works in MiniMo. That would be Slashdot in another tab in the background.
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A Google satellite view of my friend's house.
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But can you view Slashdot...(yes you can!)
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July 22, 2005
"race" schedule
July 31st: 1/2 Vineman in Sonoma County
Aug 2nd to Aug 5th: OSCON 2005 (not a race but close enough)
Aug 6th: Marin Century
Aug 28th: Ironman Canada 2005
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