Therefore if I encounter an interesting site or blog I usually subscribe to it. In that case Firefox shows the following window by default
A Feed in Firefox
I just discovered that you can click on the option menu and that there you can select Google as your default RSS reader . Optionally you can also check the checkbox that will say “Always use Google to subscribe to feeds”. This saves you a click. When you have that checkbox checked and want to change something you have to go to the Firefox Preferences/Options to change it.
Without being influenced by the graphics you can try blindsearch. It searches Yahoo, Google and Bing and shows the results of these engines in three columns. After you select which result you prefer it shows you which search engine the result came from.
It seems that Google and Bing give the best results. I’ve tried a few times and I chose mostly Google, sometimes Bing and just a few times Yahoo.
It’s Google Wave and it’s built completely in Google Web Toolkit and even better most of it will be open sourced. Really cool technology. Check the video below
The Real Time Web is a popular topic at the moment. There was already Twitter Search which searches twitter but now you get search engines that search multiple realtime sources like Twitter, Delicious.com and Digg. An interesting contender in that area is Scoopler because the search restults change while you are watching the result page. Look for instance at this search of the Obama.
What do you think? Is it useful? Is it too easy to copy by Google, such that Scoopler won’t make it?
The open source community keeps on tinkering on the open Theora video format (The format that Firefox 3.5 will support natively and is part of the HTML5 spec). They now report better video quality (expressed in PSNR) than H.264. I see in the post that they compare it to the open source x264 encoder. I wonder how that compares to commercial H.264 encoders out there
As I wrote 2 days ago I was looking into Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in combination with Google App Engine. Google recently released support for Java on App Engine and a plugin for Eclipse fro GWT and App Engine. This provides a very slick development environment. Deploying your web app is just pushing one button and your app is deployed. Actually you can deploy multiple versions of the same web app. So you can first test drive the app before making it the live version.
. Optionally you can also check the checkbox that will say “Always use Google to subscribe to feeds”. This saves you a click. When you have that checkbox checked and want to change something you have to go to the Firefox Preferences/Options to change it.
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