Faster Forward Archive: The Web

Google previews Chrome OS

Earlier today, Google gave a detailed presentation about Chrome OS, the open-source, Web-centric operating system -- built around its Chrome browser -- that it announced in July to general excitement among tech types. During an event at their Mountain View, Calif., campus, Google developers and executives outlined the basic structure...

Firefox turns five

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (watching that happen on TV remains one of my favorite memories from college). But Nov. 9 also marks the anniversary of a different sort of opening--five years ago, a Web browser called Mozilla Firefox began chipping away at...

Twitter adds another way to keep score: lists

Last Friday, Twitter rolled out a feature it had been testing for a few months: the ability to sort the people you follow on the popular micro-blogging site into lists, much like how Facebook lets you create multiple friends lists. My initial concept of lists was no more sophisticated than...

Facebook updates home page, irks users (again)

Stop me if you've read this before: Facebook just revised its home page, and many users of the popular social-networking site are confused or annoyed by the results. That happened in March, when the Palo Alto, Calif., company swept away its home page's modular design to present a single column...

Microsoft's Bing adds Twitter search (update: Google will too)

Bing, Microsoft's surprisingly useful search engine, launched a new option focused on Twitter today. Bing's addition--described at length on the site's blog--aims to help users sift through the stream of posts constantly bubbling up on the popular "micro-blogging" site. Unlike Twitter's own search feature, it parses both the text of...

Adobe Pushes for a Flash-ier Mobile Web

The Web browsers on such smartphones as Apple's iPhone, devices running Google's Android software and the Palm Pre (all based on the same open-source code framework) do an outstanding job of presenting full-sized Web pages, with one exception -- displaying most Flash interactive content. You can watch YouTube video clips...

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Facebook Soups Up Search, Rob Pegoraro , August 12, 2009

Link-Shortener Tr.im Sees Its Life Cut Short, Rob Pegoraro , August 10, 2009

Yahoo's Search Leads It To Microsoft, Rob Pegoraro , July 29, 2009

Yahoo Redesigns Home Page; Does It Matter?, Rob Pegoraro , July 22, 2009

Verizon Adding Widgets, Web Video To Fios TV, Rob Pegoraro , July 15, 2009

Google Announces "Chrome" Operating System, Rob Pegoraro , July 8, 2009

Following Up On Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Chrome 2, Rob Pegoraro , July 6, 2009

Tuesday Tidbits: Remote DVR Gets Court OK, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Ships, Rob Pegoraro , June 30, 2009

Facebook Adding Overexposure Options, Rob Pegoraro , June 29, 2009

Get Your Facebook Usernames Here!, Rob Pegoraro , June 10, 2009

Browser Bits: Safari 4 Exits Beta, Firefox 3.5 Near Release, Rob Pegoraro , June 9, 2009

Microsoft's Bing: Yes, It's Not Google, Rob Pegoraro , June 5, 2009

AOL Developments And A New Microsoft Search Engine: What Year Is This?, Rob Pegoraro , May 28, 2009

Can I Recommend Internet Explorer 8? Should I?, Rob Pegoraro , May 11, 2009

Webby Awards Announced; Columnist's Ignorance Revealed, Rob Pegoraro , May 5, 2009

Time Warner (Finally) Ready To Hit Undo Key On AOL Deal, Rob Pegoraro , April 29, 2009

Google Gets Into the Public-Profile Business, Rob Pegoraro , April 23, 2009

Google's Timeline: a Graphical, Glitchy Take on the News, Rob Pegoraro , April 21, 2009

Oracle To Buy Sun, Putting Java Under New Management, Rob Pegoraro , April 20, 2009

Another Year's Tax-Prep Torture Nears An End, Rob Pegoraro , April 15, 2009

Re: Your E-Mail Feature Requests, Rob Pegoraro , April 10, 2009

The Associated Press Is Angry At The Web, Rob Pegoraro , April 8, 2009

Microsoft Closes the Book on Encarta, Rob Pegoraro , March 31, 2009

Facebook Readies (Yet Another) Home-Page Facelift, Rob Pegoraro , March 27, 2009

Can Web Ads Add Up For Readers, Not Just Advertisers?, Rob Pegoraro , March 26, 2009

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Springs Forward, Falls Back, Rob Pegoraro , March 19, 2009

Google To Deliver "More Interesting" Ads, Rob Pegoraro , March 16, 2009

Facebook Revamps Home Page, Invites Grammatical Anarchy, Rob Pegoraro , March 13, 2009

Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta, Rob Pegoraro , February 24, 2009

Hulu Boxes Out Boxee, Rob Pegoraro , February 23, 2009

Facebook Retreats on Terms of Service, Rob Pegoraro , February 18, 2009

Google Earth Goes Into the Past, Underwater--And Deep Into Your Computer's System, Rob Pegoraro , February 13, 2009

Hotmail Opening Up To Regular Mail Programs, Rob Pegoraro , February 11, 2009

iReview iLife, iWork, Rob Pegoraro , February 5, 2009

Gmail Goes Offline (In A Good Way), Rob Pegoraro , January 28, 2009

The White House Turns the (Web) Page, Rob Pegoraro , January 21, 2009

Google's New Favicon: Not My Favorite, Rob Pegoraro , January 16, 2009

TV's Web Transition: A Wish List, Rob Pegoraro , January 15, 2009

Best-Of Lists Show Hollywood's Online Efforts At Their Best and Worst, Rob Pegoraro , December 30, 2008

GPS + Web = Drive - Traffic, Rob Pegoraro , December 29, 2008

Speedy Shipping For Holiday Shopping?, Rob Pegoraro , December 19, 2008

Google Checks Off "Add To-Do List to Gmail" , Rob Pegoraro , December 9, 2008

Online Invitations Still Broken, Rob Pegoraro , December 5, 2008

MLB Throws Out Microsoft's Silverlight, Rob Pegoraro , November 18, 2008

Safari Gets Phishing Protection, Rob Pegoraro , November 14, 2008

Gmail Adds Voice and Video Chatting, Rob Pegoraro , November 12, 2008

Internet Survives Election!, Rob Pegoraro , November 5, 2008

Google Maps' Street View Comes to D.C. , Rob Pegoraro , November 4, 2008

A Newspaper Loses the Paper, Rob Pegoraro , October 29, 2008

Google Settles Book-Scanning Lawsuit, Rob Pegoraro , October 28, 2008

Smarter Phones Leave No Escape From the Web , Rob Pegoraro , October 27, 2008

Blogged Down By Politics, Rob Pegoraro , October 21, 2008

Friday Follow-Ups: Flash Performance, Wal-Mart Music, Rob Pegoraro , October 17, 2008

Adobe's Flash Turns 10, Rob Pegoraro , October 15, 2008

Personal-Finance Tools For Stressful Times, Rob Pegoraro , September 22, 2008

More Choice For the Web: Microsoft's IE 8 and Google's Chrome, Rob Pegoraro , September 11, 2008

News Flash: Not Every Story On the Web Is True, Rob Pegoraro , September 9, 2008

How Do You Read User Reviews?, Rob Pegoraro , September 8, 2008

Microsoft Previews Internet Explorer 8, Rob Pegoraro , August 27, 2008

What Makes an Event TV-Worthy or Web-Acceptable?, Rob Pegoraro , August 26, 2008

"Deep Packet Inspection" Means Deep Trouble, Rob Pegoraro , August 21, 2008

A New Flavor For Delicious, Rob Pegoraro , August 1, 2008

Tale of A Travel-Site Tiff, Rob Pegoraro , July 30, 2008

Are You Searching For Another Search Engine?, Rob Pegoraro , July 29, 2008

Google Walks the Walk, Rob Pegoraro , July 23, 2008

Shopping for Shopping Search Engines, Rob Pegoraro , July 18, 2008

Adobe Updates Reader, Hands Off PDF Standard, Rob Pegoraro , July 2, 2008

OpenTable Offers Al Fresco Access, Rob Pegoraro , July 1, 2008

Firefox Turns 3, Rob Pegoraro , June 19, 2008

MySpace's New Look Seems the Same Old Mess, Rob Pegoraro , June 18, 2008

Firefox 3 Draws Near, Rob Pegoraro , June 13, 2008

When Tech News Breaks, Will Twitter Do the Same?, Rob Pegoraro , June 9, 2008

Amazon Takes a Long Lunch Hour, Rob Pegoraro , June 6, 2008

Web Finance Follow-Up: Bailing Out, Rob Pegoraro , June 3, 2008

Web-ifying Personal-Finance Programs, Rob Pegoraro , May 22, 2008

Yahoo Terminates Tagline Ads, Rob Pegoraro , May 19, 2008

Microsoft to Yahoo: Fine, Be That Way!, Rob Pegoraro , May 5, 2008

Paring Your Plug-Ins, Rob Pegoraro , April 30, 2008

Facebook Adds Chat; Count Me Out (For Now), Rob Pegoraro , April 28, 2008

Won't You Be My Neighborhood?, Rob Pegoraro , April 14, 2008

Feedback, And Pushback, On eBay's Feedback Changes, Rob Pegoraro , April 10, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo's Courtship Continues, Rob Pegoraro , April 7, 2008

Adobe Eases Photoshop Express Terms of Use, Rob Pegoraro , April 4, 2008

Photoshop Expressionism, Rob Pegoraro , April 3, 2008

IM? I'm Not. And You?, Rob Pegoraro , April 2, 2008

News You Can Reuse, Rob Pegoraro , March 6, 2008

Today's E-Commerce Adventure: Buying Nats Home-Opener Tickets, Rob Pegoraro , March 4, 2008

Netscape Logs Off, Rob Pegoraro , February 29, 2008

Fee, Feedback Changes at eBay Still Vex Users, Rob Pegoraro , February 27, 2008

Two Ways to the Web: Bookmarks or RSS?, Rob Pegoraro , February 25, 2008

Microsoft And Yahoo: What's In It For You?, Rob Pegoraro , February 7, 2008

Microsoft + Yahoo = ?, Rob Pegoraro , February 1, 2008

Plugged Into Political News Yet?, Rob Pegoraro , January 28, 2008

An E-Commerce Paradox, Rob Pegoraro , January 25, 2008

Gawking at Google, Rob Pegoraro , January 15, 2008

Google Gets Chatty With AOL, Rob Pegoraro , December 5, 2007

Choosing Cookie Clips, Rob Pegoraro , November 2, 2007

Waiting For Google, Rob Pegoraro , October 31, 2007

Gmail's Latest Trick: IMAP, Therefore I Am, Rob Pegoraro , October 24, 2007

Google Unwraps Presentations, Rob Pegoraro , September 19, 2007

Shedding Some Light on Silverlight, Rob Pegoraro , September 17, 2007

Reprogram Your Run (or Ride), Rob Pegoraro , September 10, 2007

Yahoo Mail Exits Beta, Rob Pegoraro , August 28, 2007

Looking For What's Missing In Web Search, Rob Pegoraro , August 9, 2007

Narrowing Your Social Networking, Rob Pegoraro , July 19, 2007

Who's Tops In Photo Sharing?, Rob Pegoraro , July 11, 2007

Reconnecting, Rob Pegoraro , June 12, 2007

Web Mapping Options Multiply, Rob Pegoraro , May 31, 2007

How Many E-Mail Addresses Do You Need?, Rob Pegoraro , May 8, 2007

Hotmail Web-Mail Beta Test Ending, Rob Pegoraro , May 7, 2007

Google Maps Marches On, Rob Pegoraro , February 13, 2007