Archive for category Browsers
Microfiche Reader Updated: Google FastFlip
Posted by Michael Opperman in Browsers, Google, Microsoft, Search on September 16, 2009
Browsing news article using Fast Flip is satisfying. Almost like having the coolest microfiche reader ever – yeah, I know that I date myself. Still playing with it, but would love to embed that in a page with a set of saved searches. Every morning, I could quickly flip through the visual equivalent of news feeds. Microsoft is doing something similar with Bing’s Visual Search, but I find it less intuitive and useful.
The New Shiny Penny That Is Mobile
Posted by Michael Opperman in Apple, Browsers, Google, Mobile, Mozilla Firefox on October 7, 2008
We’re beginning to get the faint whiffs of the mobile we believed could be possible. The devices are improving and the right players are developing platforms & applications. Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, and now Firefox is promising to release their browser for mobile “in a few weeks.” It will interesting to see how Firefox handles Add-Ons in mobile.
Firefox and the Future
Posted by Michael Opperman in Browsers, Web 2.0 on February 2, 2007
Firefox and I spent a few hours rekindling the romance on Saturday. I have been an evangelist since the day Firefox launched, but the rapid development of add-ons and extensions and the nifty Grease Monkey continue to give me butterflies.
Now there is Medium. Medium allows users to see friends browsing, watch the browsing activities of others and chat with people in their path. We are starting to get there. To me, the buzzword Web 2.0 means a read/write web – an interactive experience that approaches a seamlessness with my offline experience. And also the ability to configure the content on the Web in any way that I want. To mix metaphors criminally, I think we’re nearly past the infancy and starting to walk. Language is on its way.
Medium was funded by Spark Capital and Appian Ventures. Current competitors (though not direct) are StumbleUpon, OthersOnline and Yoono.