As I’m sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
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Web Publishing Software Functionality
Previously I expressed some thoughts about current web publishing software, and I got a lot of great answers to the questions I posed. Now I’d like to take it a bit deeper and find out what functionality is really needed and what’s just fluff.
Flock and Web 2.0: The Leaning Tower of Buzz
Well everybody, if you haven’t been seeing PR praise for Flock on the interweb then you must have been living under a Web 1.0 rock for awhile. Wired has praised it, Bessemer Venture Partners and many others gave them tons of money (enough to hire ~12 people out the shoot, supposedly around $2 million), nearly 70,000 people are talking about it on Technorati, but all this buzz isn’t really doing it for me.
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“Web 2.0” Noticings
I have to use air quotes whenever I mention “web 2.0” for fear that if I forget them, someone will call me out to explain what “web 2.0” actually means. There’s no real in-depth entry here, just a few things that made me do a double-take as of late: