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Opera 8 Released

Tim Malone — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:50:15 +0000

A new version of the Opera Web Browser has been released – check it out at the Opera download site. The new version’s main features are a new look, increased security and speed, a simpler tabbed-browsing interface, a voice commands feature, and more. Further information can be found in Opera’s press release.

New SEO Firefox extension

Tim Malone — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:02:17 +0000

A new Firefox extension was released recently, and it’s looking to be useful.

It’s SEOpen, and although I haven’t really tested it much yet, it looks like it’ll be useful. It ads a new context menu submenu, with links to services like Google and Yahoo backlinks, whois, robots.txt viewer, and others. All the stuff I normally have to visit manually. It’ll save a bit of time . There’s more features planned as well, so this will definitely be an extension I’ll be keeping my eyes on.

If you have 8 minutes..

Tim Malone — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:43:36 +0000

Then have a look at web history in the year 2014.

Barry Welford pointed it out on Cre8asite this morning.

The presentation covers the creation of the Internet in 1989 till when the New York Times is taken offline in 2014. It covers the creation of the Google Grid in 2006, and Google and Amazon’s merging in 2008 – creating the challenge to Microsoft, Googlezon.

Microsoft will fade away into history, and Larry and Sergey will be the world’s richest businessmen. Everything will be done online, and every person will have instantaneous access to the Internet wherever and whenever they want. The New York Times will “become a print only newsletter for the elite and elderly.”

On a related note, all this change brings us more towards the paradox of our time in history. As “we build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication…”

And, as a sidenote, Googlezon domains have already been registered in most spaces – damn, I was beaten to it .