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...
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November 19, 2009; 2:51 PM ET |
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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...
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November 9, 2009; 5:49 PM ET |
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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...
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November 5, 2009; 1:43 PM ET |
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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...
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October 26, 2009; 11:27 AM ET |
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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...
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October 21, 2009; 4:50 PM ET |
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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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October 5, 2009; 11:53 AM ET |
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