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Earlier this week Google announced that they are launching a new browser called Chrome.The browser will be available in 100 countries and is billed by Google as being a competitor to both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser will be cross platform working with Windows, Mac and Linux and is the first software release for Linux that Google has released. The developers at Google who have been working on this new browser started with a blank page - looking at what the guys at Google would ideally like a browser to do, having spent so many hours on the internet.

The Chrome browser is aimed at both making the internet easier for user and also to drive innovation on the internet. Designed to be clean and easy to use it’s focussed more on the experience of browsing the web. Their tabbed browsing will run each tab as an isolated instance meaning that if a website crashes the browser won’t shut down as with IE and Firefox, just that one tab. As a result of their user focus Google are aiming to make their browsing experience much faster and user-friendly.

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The system works by recording user submitted websites against pre-defined categories. Each user specifies the categories of their interest and relevant sites are served to these users along with the ability to rate the site. This process means that the users of the system share their recommendations and qualitatively review them before they get to you.

This new way of finding and sharing interesting sites is fast and extremely entertaining.Oringinally, the system worked on Firefox only and was, for a while, one of the best reasons to use the Firefox browser. It is now also available for IE7, allowing more people to participate.

Check it out at www.stumbleupon.com

Now this is a handy tool. Windows only, XP & Vista, best of all its completely free!

Freeware application Macrium Reflect Free creates disk image snapshots of any hard drive on your computer that you can restore on any other drive to bring your computer back to the same state. Disk imaging is a great solution for going from zero to a completely setup system if something goes wrong.. So next time you re-install windows and all your favourite applications. Simply create an image of your ‘C’ drive and you’ll never have to worry about reinstalling all those apps again…

Link: http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp

It seems that most people think Microsoft have to dig a little deeper to buy Yahoo in an effort to catch up to the advances Google has made over the last few years. Having said that Bill Gates is playing it tough, saying they’re only going to make the one offer and that they can do it with our without Yahoo.
He made this quite clear in an interview with Reuters: “We can afford to make big investments in the engineering and marketing that needs to get done. We will do that with or without Yahoo.” Considering the offer totals a staggering USD$44.6 billion thats a big investment indeed.
It would appear that Microsoft is only acting tough. In fact, if they don’t buy Yahoo, they’ll have a tough time turning those 19 billion dollars into a web platform that will be a decent competitor to Google; that’s why they went unsolicited on Yahoo in the first place.

alleywag has screen captures of a new Yahoo web site, reportedly launching February 26th, named Yahoo Buzz Beta.Yahoo Buzz will be similar to Digg, but will start only with a 100 sites allowed into the system. After the initial beta period, all sites that are accepted into the Yahoo Publisher Network will allowed to be added to Yahoo Buzz.

By looking at the screen captures, it appears that each article is given a “buzz score.” The buzz score seems to be generated by users clicking a “buzz it” icon. In addition, on the right side of Yahoo Buzz stories are recent “Top Searches,” which are updated hourly.

Yahoo Buzz is currently a blog with data on top keyword searches from Yahoo Search. Here is the current Buzz FAQ, but reportedly, this new site will replace the current Yahoo Buzz section.

Media Companies Reach Copyright Pact

Media companies including Viacom, Microsoft Corp., News Corp.’s Fox and MySpace units and others have agreed to guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online, a source familiar with the matter said this morning.

Google Inc, which faces a $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, is absent from the list of companies, but is currently in talks to possibly join.

The agreement is set to be disclosed today, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources.

The principles include using technology to eliminate copyright-infringing content uploaded by users to Web sites and blocking any material before it is publicly accessible, the source confirmed.

Google this week demonstrated new technology that allow content owners automate the identification of copyrighted material on its YouTube online video service.

The technology does not yet allow the blocking of copyrighted content from being uploaded.

Tonight Google launched its long-awaited presentations tool as part of the ghastly named Docs & Spreadsheets suite. But smartly the company has simultaneously changed the name of Docs & Spreadsheets simply to Google Docs. It could equally have been changed to “Google Office,” however, which the presentation software now appropriately completes.

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

After taking it for a test drive, it wont be replacing Powerpoint or Microsoft word for me for a while yet. It can handle basic tasks but lacks the options of the existing Microsoft products. It is an interesting start though for Google, and knowing them it will only get better, perhaps of a big concern to Microsoft is the fact that Google “Office” produts are all free.

As bands move from CDs to digital downloads, they need something to hook potential customers at concerts, instead of hoping they’ll download later. DiscRevolt comes to the rescue with collectible cards.

Bridging the divide between digital and physical, DiscRevolt provides a tangible solution for selling digital media. Artists upload songs to DiscRevolt’s website and design their own artwork for a plastic download card. The cards are then printed by DiscRevolt with a unique redemption code on the back. Artists sell the cards to fans at live shows, and the fans can then download songs or albums from the artist’s online page.

It’s the question that everyone wants to know. How much do I need to pay to get a website developed? What is a good deal? The answer is actually quite simple, but most people don’t realize it until it’s too late.

Let’s say that company ABC, Inc. wants a website developed to sell the Widgets that they make. Each Widget sells for about $50 and they generally sell 50 Widgets a day. That’s $2,500 in revenue every day or about $75,000 every month.

ABC Pty Ltd. decides to go to two different web design companies to get quotes. Each company comes back with a price. Web Company A says they can build the site with full ecommerce capability for just $300. Web Company B says they can build the site for $6,000. Which is the better deal? Web Company A, right? Well, maybe not.