Full post coming up:
I might be renting a car for the weekend because it’s cheaper then taking a taxi from SFO to Sunnyvale. Anyone have transportation and want to share? Leave a comment and let me know. Or if you want to just meet up at hackday let me know.
Hmm and the bigger problem is how am I going to do something more impressive then then what I did at the first open hackday:
Yahoo Open Hack 06: Saved By Patrick Stewart
Google launched chrome with goofy terms that said they own any data you transmit through their new shiny browser, Chrome. That has been changed:
As of 2 p.m. PT, it looks like the terms have changed. Section 11 now
reads simply: “11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you
already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or
through, the Services.”-taken from webware
About every half hour I get a little message from my firewall that Chrome is trying to get an update from the internet. It’s nice that it wants to stay up to date, but I’m not sure what data it’s transmitting. Especially after reading the terms of service that say that google gets ownership of anything transmitted from their little browser.
amitc2001 is Amit Chowdhry of http://www.Pulse2.com. He’s been writing about web 2.0 before it was even called web 2.0.
FlicknHuck (1:35:48 PM) : isn’t chrome supposed to be available for beta dload today?
amitc2001 (1:35:59 PM) : yeah, probably by the end of today
FlicknHuck (1:36:10 PM) : sheeeeit
FlicknHuck (1:36:37 PM) : The reason I use firefox is because of firebug and scribefire
FlicknHuck (1:36:51 PM) : google chrome may be fast but it won’t have the features initially.
FlicknHuck (1:36:58 PM) : interested to try it regardless
amitc2001 (1:37:17 PM) : yeah, im guessing it’ll get as much as marketshare as safari
FlicknHuck (1:37:33 PM) : that’s not much at all
amitc2001 (1:37:41 PM) : IE has a lot of marketshare because of windows default browsing and firefox has all the add-ons u need
FlicknHuck (1:37:42 PM) : seems like a safari clone though
amitc2001 (1:37:45 PM) : yeah
FlicknHuck (1:37:56 PM) : they’ve amped up the javascript engine
FlicknHuck (1:38:17 PM) : I never felt javascript was too slow on any page
FlicknHuck (1:38:32 PM) : and they’re open sourcing that portion of it too
FlicknHuck (1:38:41 PM) : so it’ll just be absorbed into other browsers
amitc2001 (1:38:50 PM) : yeah it will
amitc2001 (1:39:08 PM) : i could see firefox absorbing that sandbox tabbing feature into their own browser
FlicknHuck (1:39:41 PM) : what’s the sandbox tab feature?
FlicknHuck (1:39:53 PM) : Is that how it only kills the tab instead of the browser if the page dies?
amitc2001 (1:40:57 PM) : yeah
amitc2001 (1:41:04 PM) : how each tab has it’s own memory process
FlicknHuck (1:41:19 PM) : That makes sense.
FlicknHuck (1:41:53 PM) : We’ll see how their launch goes
amitc2001 (1:42:00 PM) : yeah
FlicknHuck (1:42:08 PM) : If they put up a download link right on their search page then this might get serious.
FlicknHuck (1:42:15 PM) : I wonder what Mozilla is thinking
FlicknHuck (1:42:42 PM) : Mozilla to Google: ‘HOW DARE YOU!?”
amitc2001 (1:43:02 PM) : http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/09/01/thoughts-on-chrome-more/
amitc2001 (1:43:13 PM) : CEO of mozilla
FlicknHuck (1:44:12 PM) : He’s cool with it.
FlicknHuck (1:44:14 PM) : *laugh*
amitc2001 (1:44:18 PM) : hahah yeah]
FlicknHuck (1:44:34 PM) : “They announced it with a COMIC BOOK… HONESTLY!”
amitc2001 (1:44:44 PM) : hahahaha
FlicknHuck (1:46:34 PM) : I’m don’t think I’m switching from Firefox anytime soon.
amitc2001 (1:47:11 PM) : me neither