Posts on ‘September 3rd, 2008’

Via Tech Crunch -by Jason Kincaid on September 3, 2008

Most of today’s virtual worlds are set in mythical places, with landmarks that no newcomer would be familiar with. While this may suit most people just fine, it can be unsettling for those who have never been exposed to a virtual world. Today sees the launch [...]

Via Tech Crunch - by John Biggs on September 3, 2008

The browser-bearing world was atwitter yesterday with the announcement of Google’s Chrome browser. Just about overnight, they’ve managed to convince hordes of people that Chrome is the way to browse on your PC. Next step? They’re taking it mobile.
According to an interview with Google co-founder [...]

Via Tech Crunch - by Don Reisinger on September 3, 2008
The dust hasn’t even settled on Chrome’s release and already Mozilla is feeling the pressure. The company today released a series of benchmarks showing Firefox 3.1 will be faster than anything Google can muster with Chrome.
Chrome is running V8, an open source Javascript engine, [...]

Via ARS Technica By Nate Anderson | Published: September 02, 2008 - 09:35PM CT
ISPs have long complained about the fantastic amount of traffic consumed by P2P users. The network providers have never been keen on having their bandwidth hit so hard, especially when much of P2P’s bandwidth—let’s face it—consists of copyright-infringing material. But with the [...]

Via Tech Crunch - by Michael Arrington on September 3, 2008
InvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user - someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn’t named - he or she says “I have a [...]

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: September 03, 2008 - 06:13AM CT
Twitter: it’s an extremely simple and social microblogging tool where users can post 140 characters at a time about what’s going on or in reply to someone else. While that might not sound ridiculous on its face, the service is sometimes written [...]

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: September 03, 2008 - 06:13AM CT
Twitter: it’s an extremely simple and social microblogging tool where users can post 140 characters at a time about what’s going on or in reply to someone else. While that might not sound ridiculous on its face, the service is sometimes written [...]