So I’m reading Oliviers blog and we get to this quote…
“It’s incredible that something as potentially game-changing as a Google browser has stayed under wraps for two years.”
Oh my god. What else have they got hidden there?
Moleskin 42 on the wall…
Shoot me now…
“Globalization will destroy incomes for the vast majority in the developed world, guaranteed. We’ve been at a plateau for the last thirty years (the average person in the US makes slightly less than he did in 1973). A descent to global norms for similarly skilled/trained labor is inevitable.”
Life’s a pig when…
…you’re working on a blog that revolves around people doing technical jobs and the job gets technical.
Surely Google is aiming their product at the webapp-coding world; apparently they’re aiming for my Grandmother…
“By page three, McCloud has lost the entire non-webapp-coding world. “The Gears guys were saying that one of the problems with browsers is they’re inherently single-threaded.” The majority of misfortunates who try to read this comic on Tuesday will have no idea who the Gears guys are. They’ll puzzle at the statement browsers inherently frimble frotz foobar. The rest of the 38-page book reads like the middle of a Neal Stephenson novel. Did you know that taking screenshots and creating a cryptographic hash is an imprecise way to compare layouts? It’s true.”
It’s like waiting for a bomb to explode…
How long before Steve Gillmor looks at Chrome and says “Office/Windows/Microsoft is dead”?
What this is really about…
Chrome will get heaps loads of praise or complaints about two things.
- What it looks like; for this read the color of the buttons. This is because the people commenting, confuse User Interface Design with colors. A bit like confusing how well a car drives with the color or the controls.
- How fast GMail loads. Mainly because the people doing the reviewing spend massive amounts of their time in email.
There is however more to this…
“To Google, the browser has become a weak link in the cloud system – the needle’s eye through which the outputs of the company’s massive data centers usually have to pass to reach the user – and as a result the browser has to be rethought, revamped, retooled, modernized. Google can’t wait for Microsoft or Apple or the Mozilla Foundation to make the changes (the first has mixed feelings about promoting cloud apps, the second is more interested in hardware than in clouds, and the third, despite regular infusions of Google bucks, lacks resources), so Google is jump-starting the process with Chrome.”
Explaining your design…
I’m often amazed by the number of people I cross who can’t explain what they’re working on. Often after years of dedicated work they’re still defining themselves as “a mix of X and Y” or by what they’re not.
It’s very geeky but I do like this; how do you explain how your new software will work? As a comic.
Google on Google Chrome – comic book
It’s not perfect but they’ve hit on something here.
Crowdsourcing journalism works…
Flightblogger Breaks Obama Running Mate Story – One Man and His Blog
However, they didn’t give him the credit. Argh!
Hugh MacLeod asks for commissions…
Hugh is asking for commissions…
“I’m going to be hanging out my shingle more in the cartooning department. I think it’s time.”
gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: gapingvoid commissions
Anyone who has read this and this will know that think that Hugh’s work is fantastic and worth every cent.
I’ll add the final part to the story to the blog over the weekend.
Knowing your worst nightmare…
“My nightmare: I’m piloting a spaceship over the surface of the Empire’s Death Cube, which is folding randomly because of a warp in space-time, and my only hope is to fly to the left and insert the trapezoidal nose of my ship into the trapezoidal hole of the Death Cube’s energy portal. And then I look out my window and see that the Cube is made out of seafood.”