1. Google is really showing off some productivity this week, the highlight being their new open-source browser, Chrome.
- A fresh take on the browser
- Google’s Android Market: cathedral or bazaar?
- Google white space petition: 13,000 signatures and counting
- Google Apps: Now With Video Sharing
2. Slashdot notes that “Internet Explorer 8 has been released for public beta. New features include accelerators, which provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks; automatic crash recovery, which prevents a single page’s failures from taking down your entire browser; and browser privacy…it’s a definite improvement over previous versions, and brings a lot to the table.”
- Surfing on the sly with IE8’s new “InPrivate” Internet
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2’s (Familiar) New Features
- IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP
- Search & Internet Explorer 8
3. Mozilla developers have been playing around with JavaScript performance. The result is TraceMonkey, which appears to improve Firefox performance. It should show up in version 3.1 of the browser. Also, try playing with Ubiquity, a new prototype which is the natural-language, command-based shell for Firefox.
- Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost
- Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
- Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox
- Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web Command Line
4. I just saw a warning about ASCII spam, and that got me wondering…Why do some people get more spam than others? It’s all in a name…
