09.07.08

web news & links

Posted in News at 12:37 am by Paloma Cruz

Chrome
Google launched a new browser, upping the ante in the browser wars. Here’s some light reading to get a handle on what that means to the rest of us:

• Google’s Chrome Ups the Ante, by Business Week
• Google Working on Browser: What About Mozilla?, by SitePoint
• Ambitions enough for another 10 years — But Google’s plans may butt up against backlash from its growth, by Houston Chronicle²

Some other stories to watch & things to do:

• Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit for $6 Million, by SitePoint
• Need to declutter your life? Reboot Your Workflow This Fall with tips from lifehacker
• From LibrarianInBlack, “I recently published a lengthy article in the UK open access journal Ariadne“Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload.” Enjoy! The journal also has an excellent article promoting the option of allowing employees to telecommute (e.g. “work from home” for those unfamiliar with the term).“
• Also, did you know that U.S. Hispanics are active online social networkers? That’s what Forrester Research says, in this HispanicTrending article.
• Legacy Multimedia has a wonderful post on the importance of creating a storyboard for multimedia projects.

Some links to add to your bookmarks:

• soundunwound, from the great people who brought us imdb, it’s the ultimate online database for music knowledge
• SitePoint Blogs gives us 15 Places to Sell Your Photos

Footnotes
2 = article may expire in a few weeks.

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09.01.08

web links & news

Posted in News at 8:42 pm by Paloma Cruz

Comcast sets a limit

In case you missed the news, Comcast announced that it will begin to cap monthly usage for customers. ReadWriteWeb does a good job of summarizing:

Today, Comcast announced that it will amend its Acceptable Use Policy and add a clause to it that will establish a “monthly data use threshold” of 250 GB per month. This effectively puts a cap on the amount a Comcast user can download per month and codifies an informal policy Comcast was already enforcing. While 250GB is a large amount of data right now, it won’t be once a large number users start watching HD streams which can easily take up numerous GB per hours.

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Comcast’s announcement tries to put this limit into context. According to Comcast, 250GB amount to:

• 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
• 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
• 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
• uploading 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)

The real question is what this means to the future of the Web, and of Web users. As what we do on a daily basis takes more content, higher volume, we need more usage space & higher limits.

More about this at the Houston Chronicle. What’s your take?

Amazon’s Universal Wish List

Looks like Amazon has taken their wish list a step further and enabled the ability to add non-Amazon items. Smart. This makes their universal wish list the one place you can add every little thing your heart (or head) desires, making it more likely you’ll use it.

I do have an Amazon Wish List, but haven’t actively used it. This may entice me to give it a stronger presence in my little tech-lusting life. (Found via LifeClever.)

Bookmarks

Some links and resources you might want to try:

• Need an assistant? Try Sandy, a virtual assistant that’s getting rave reviews.
• Home Office Warrior’s “10 Must Have Twitter Tools for the Home Office Warrior“

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