Monthly Archives: February 2011

Google’s Chrome Browser now supports WebGL 3D Hardware Acceleration. The update will also allows users to download applications that run within the browser from the app store. It also features Chrome Instant, when enabled, Chrome will start to load the user’s most frequent websites as the URL is typed in the address bar.

Google also released a new extension for its Chrome browser that will make it easier to avoid ads on the Web.

Chrome recently recorded a 10% browser market share for the first time.

Integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox

rollApp Inc. announced the release of a free beta service http://rollApp.com that provides users with online editions of Open Office, integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox. It offers SMBs and independent professionals a turn-key solution that combines rich functionality of the traditional office suites with all the benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms: on-demand scalability, anywhere access, no install/support pain, and reduced cost.

rollApp is developing a technology which allows instant conversion of virtually any traditional software into online SaaS. Software publishers will only need to upload their existing installation packages to http://rollApp.com , to make them available for anybody to use via any standard web browser, without any installs or downloads. The look and feel and the functionality of the software running through rollApp will mirror the original.

Today rollApp’s beta program offers 10+ popular software packages, including Open Office tools for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. rollApp plans to gradually add more applications and, once the platform is tested with the top-100 apps, http://rollApp.com will allow open submission of applications by third-party vendors (see http://rollApp.com/beta for details).

Schematic, a WPP Digital company, announced it was chosen by Google to work on an exciting new site, the Art Project, powered by Google, an innovative platform bringing the world’s great museums and artworks to the Internet. Schematic supported the design and development of the Art Project’s user experience, bringing to life Google’s vision for first-of-its-kind access to the world of art through an interactive digital environment.

To put the emphasis on each museum and its artwork, Schematic worked with Google’s team to design and co-develop a deceptively simple, immersive interface design. The project uses a number of Google APIs, including Street View, Picasa, YouTube, Google Docs, Goo.gl, Account and Google Scholar in a Java-based web application.

“We’re honored to have been chosen to work with Google,” said Trevor Kaufman, CEO of Schematic. “Art Project is going to change the way we experience art, bringing Florence’s Uffizi Gallery to students in the US, or bringing Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie to art lovers in Africa. We used Google’s best tools to bring users closer to the art here than they can get at the actual museums.” Behind the scenes video of the creative and development process for Art Project, powered by Google, are available on YouTube.

About Schematic
Schematic, a WPP company, creates powerful interactive experiences for the world’s largest brands. Servicing Fortune 1000 companies including Target, Nokia, Comcast, NBC, Dell, and Microsoft, the firm develops user-focused digital marketing and innovation solutions that help clients build brands and delight customers across channels. Recognized by both Advertising Age and AdWeek as one of the industry’s most innovative firms, Schematic is headquartered in New York. For more information, please visit http://www.schematic.com

The last few day when we look at Twitter, most visits we get an error page which hangs, sometimes if you click on the home button it then goes to where you wanted to be.

The “Twitter is over capacity error page” pictures a whale being lifted by birds, I wonder if the whale represents the bloated beast Twitter has become!

We have also been trying to make adjustments to twitter pages and that seems to be hit or miss, Twitter also seems to use a lot of caching, so it is hard to see if changes have really (if any) been made. Twitter API’s we use seem to have a mind of their own as well.

Price of a successful free service I guess!

Microsoft has announced a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which will let users of the Google browser play H.264 video on HTML5 pages by using the built-in capabilities found in Windows 7.

Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, also released a lengthy blog post in which he criticized Google’s control over the WebM project and said IE9 will support both H.264 and WebM.

The Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome uses Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin code from the April 2007 release according to the release notes.

Comcast has successfully activated our first group of trial users for IPv6 Native Dual Stack operation. These are the first Native Dual-Stack users activated in a production DOCSIS network in North America. Leveraging our state-of-the-art, production DOCSIS 3.0 network, these users can now access content and services natively over both IPv6 and IPv4. This means users do not need to use any IPv6 or IPv4 tunneling, translating, or NAT solutions; they can access IPv6 and IPv4 directly at high-speed, in an unencumbered fashion. This is a tremendous milestone for Comcast, cable operators, and the Internet community at large, and it is a critical milestone in our many years of work to prepare IPv6 to work seamlessly in a residential broadband Internet network. Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses. We anticipate expanding our IPv6 Native Dual Stack trial in Colorado and in other areas in the coming weeks and months.

More: http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcast-activates-first-users-with-ipv6-native-dual-stack-over-docsis.html

Google’s Chrome browser ended 2010 with 10.70% of the browser market share, according to Net Applications. Microsoft’s internet Explorer continues to lose market share. Firefox, the world’s second most popular browser, currently has a 22% share.

Apple’s Safari climbed four-tenths of a percentage point to 6.3%.

The upcoming launch of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 may change usage, or so Mozilla and Microsoft are hoping.

Top browser market share at: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1