So far so good in checking out Google Chrome. I am seeing snappier action than with IE8 Beta or Firefox. Memory usage seems to be ok, even with multiple tabs running, although I’m seeing some reports that this isn’t the case with others.
We’ll have to see how this works with continued testing.
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of screen shots of Google’s new Chrome browser soon, but at the moment they are hard to come by. But Phillip Lenssen, who broke the story, has some up on Google Blogoscoped.
I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this given how easy it is to edit Wikipedia and how politicians (and others) love to shape and reshape their images. The New York Times has picked up on a story that has been floating around during the Labor Day Weekend that Republican VP choice Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia entry was edited at the end of last week leading up to the announcement.
Apparently the individual doing the editing, named YoungTrigg, (her youngest son is named Trigg) started polishing up Palin’s entry. Others did as well. The Times details some of the edits, and it basically looks like a PR polish job from what I’m reading.. It also looks like another user or users did some re-working of the re-working. Apparently another user edited the entry on Thursday night to say Palin was the VP choice.
But given that Wikipedia does make it reasonably easy to edit, and that quick editing has been credited with some breaking (or should I say premature) news of late, it raises some interesting questions that have been raised before about objectivity and Wikipedia’s role in the information game. Some are calling it typical dirty tricks. Heh. I say it is just taking advantage of the opportunities that exist.
This is both fascinating and also a bit scary. Image Metrics recently showed off its facial animation at SIGGRAPH. At some point we’ll never know when to trust our eyes.
Here comes the cap. And not the one that you wear on your head. Comcast is going to change its Acceptable Use Policy to include a monthly threshold (cap) of 250GB per month.
I’m against the principle of caps in general, but 250GB at least sounds like a reasonable number to me, but maybe I’m being selfish. Silicon Alley Insider gives a run down on how some types of usage measure up under the limit.
Keep in mind, Comcast is still going to be using its slow down and turn off methods as well, so I imagine we are going to see some bumpy surfing come this fall.
Why you should never call those numbers written on public toilet walls.
Via Allen Stern on CenterNetworks
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
The Monatauk Monster. Interesting picture. Interesting premise. Bizarre outcome.
Steve Gillmor is wondering what will happen with Silverlight now that the Olympics are just around the corner. So am I.
Interesting economic and Big Oil news this week. If you want to know what’s wrong, all you have to do is read the news.
Someone pretended they were Exxon on Twitter this week. Now the question is how should companies react. The honchos at Exxon were probably happy to not have to deal with angry customers.
The case of the Anthrax scientist that committed suicide is one of the strangest stories I have ever read. I think there is much more than we know here, but have no idea what.
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
Wired wonders, Has Apple bitten off more than it can chew? Methinks it might have, but only in the inevitable sense that getting bigger and attracting more users to more products has the same effect as gravity.
The New York Times wonders about the differences between reading online and reading a book. Declining reading scores? Linear attention in a non-linear world? Cognitive enrichment? Loss of print subscribers? Fascinating discussion. I’m reading this article on an iPod Touch.
Last week Scoble told us why tech blogging has failed us and promised to blog more about things that are practical and useful and less about business.This week he’s offering condoms to protect against Silicon Valley Disease.
Steve Gillmor on what’s coming. He’s always writing about what’s coming, usually before anyone else knows it’s coming. Fake Steve Gillmor is trying hard but parodying himself more than the original.
Frank Rich on How Obama became acting president. He leaves out the part where our current lame duck forgot how to waddle, much less lead.
Islamist militants threaten the Olympics with suicide bombers and bio weapons. They’re pissed because suicide bombing was not allowed as a medal sport this year.
Michael Parekh on Art Like Twitter and history repeating. Watch the video. Yes.
Is it me, or does it seem like the issues with iPhone supplies, and the software bugs with iPhone 2.0 are getting somewhat of a pass? Yeah, last weekend everyone was dumping on Apple for the launch woes, and deservedly so. But while I’m seeing a few stories here and there, largely from what I’m reading things are relatively quiet. Maybe I’m just not paying enough attention, as I try to find a location to buy one.
Anyway, the most interesting thing I’ve read on this has to do with battery life, which some say is deplorable and others point out is equivalent to other 3G devices. Apple’s advice to maximize battery life reads like something off of a new drug ad with the caveats that suggest getting the benefits can cause death. I think this is a story waiting to be told in the future.
My own experiences with iPhone 2.0 software have been limited to using it on the iPod Touch. The App Store is nice and holds great promise, but for the moment I find the applications leave a bit to be desired. How many flashlight apps do we really need? That said, some of the apps are quite good. The Remote App is amazing and EverNote continues to impress. But my iPod Touch is not as responsive after doing the upgrade and downloading a few apps. James Kendrick thinks this is related to memory issues. Might be. Again, another story to be told in the future.
I’m beginning to wonder if the inventory issues are somehow related to the bugs and issues I have seen reported. I’m wondering if we aren’t going to see some changes coming soon, now that there are supposedly a million or so beta testers out there? Don’t get me wrong, I’m still sold on the device. I just think there are some big question marks out there.
Maybe it is a good thing I couldn’t locate one to buy so quickly.
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
My goodness. It seems the August break for news has backed up into July. Why else would the news media cover Obama’s trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Europe, like it was a second coming? The expectation game is setting Obama up for an impossible to live up to reality. Of course it is amazing that we aren’t covering any of the real news at the moment. But that’s not sexy enough.
I guess rust never sleeps. I find the resurgence (at least in the media) of Neil Young to be quite interesting. He’s all over the New York Times this week and weekend.
A Windows 95 architect switches to Apple. Why is anyone surprised?
Air conditioning is the down fall of democracy. Jeff Jarvis recycles this story. It is still a good one.
Cringley on Inflection Point. We get behinder and behinder as we get greedier and greedier.
Steve Gillmor on the Magic Bus. Translation: It’s about Mesh and Twitter and Track and much more.
Uncomfortable Answers on the economy. Some are uncomfortable, Some barely scratch the surface. Some just recycle the question.
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