Bookmarks for September 4th 2008
Sites that I found interesting for September 4th 2008
- Google Updates Picasa And Web Albums To Version 3.0 – Google is calling Picasa 3.0 (beta) the next-generation of photo-editing software. New features include facial recognition capabilities.
- Mozilla Fires Back At Google: Our JavaScript Engine Runs Faster – Mozilla posted data from a speed test that pitted Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine against Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which should appear in Firefox 3.1.
- Save DVR-MS Toolbox – DVR-MS doesn’t work with the new TV pack and part of the reason for this is that a published API in the Windows Media Center SDK that is broken in the TV pack and with no sign of a fix being developed the developer of DVR-MS Toolbox Andy Van Till needs to raise a business impact statement with the hope that the number of users effected makes it a case worth looking at for Microsoft.
- Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three – O2 asked adults across three different age groups — 18-25, 35-45, 55+ — to make contact with random strangers from areas all across the globe using only personal connections. By linking their shared interests, the participants were able to connect to that person in three person-to-person links.
