Last month I was in the process of moving to my new house.

In the interim I thought it would be good to post some social browsing of things that I was interested in while I didn’t have time to write some other stuff; I think this was a mistake.

The traffic was DOWN by 15% this month. I understand that there’s highs and lows in the process, but I’ve been trying to increase traffic, and I had been doing that, but this month I was trying new things and I don’t think it was accepted too well. And it was a mistake to mix my initial view with something more social. So, that’s my fault.

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The one thing that I think that current browsers are missing the ability to properly use the display of the webpage in the browser that your using. It can be hard to read sites at times…

A large majority of web pages/sites are constructed to handle 1024 or 1280 displays. The purpose for this is to make the reading or gleaming of information easier. If the letters/words are too small and the sentences are too long [on the site] it’s just hard to track when reading.

Cell phones are doing this natively with the built-in browsers, but for all the power, the PC’s have been omitted from this ability. Cell phones will zoom in on places when you gesture or click an area, but browsers for PC’s are missing the point [IMHO].

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If you’re  logging in to the google website, which you probably are; 80% of the world does.

You’ll notice is your running INTERNET EXPLORER your getting a little nudge to move to a better browser;.a noticeably faster browser.

Google did this a few months ago with their GMAIL account; pushing users of INTERNET EXPLORER to use Chrome.

Chrome is still fairly new, but has had good penetration to the browser market. Last stats showed 8-15%.

This website reports 2% of visitors here are using Chrome as their browser, but until Chrome releases full support for plug-ins and a larger selection of them, people are not going to migrate in masses.

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Microsoft Hotmail, MSN and LIVE accounts are littered with requests for sex, porn and adult content; and Microsoft doesn’t care. It seems they make absolutely no efforts in stopping or filtering this kind of solicitation.

I use my Hotmail account because it’s my oldest email account I’ve, it’s the most established. For as many Internet Service Provider’s I’ve had, Hotmail has always been a fall back point, but now it’s a thorn in my side.

The Hotmail spam filter functions are crap; I get Instant Messaging invites from people all the time ‘…look at my SEX cam’ OR ‘… I need a SEX partner’ crap. Not only this, but the people are able to hack and spoof other peoples accounts, people you know. Making it look like someone you know is offering ADULT content or services.

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Microsoft established it’s self as the conqueror years ago, but it wasn’t because Internet Explorer was better; it’s because it was free. AND Microsoft was pushing the updates out thru the automatic updates.

Microsoft established themselves in the market as the dominate browser then once they had it they sat back and didn’t do anything. All the security issues and problems were handled on their schedule and millions of users were suffering.

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Forward thinking is what’s going to make it for us. Sticking to the sam ole rut of making technology is just not going to cut it.

Some of the most useful things like the light bulb, were made our of necessity and discontent.

This is a prime example of how technology could be working for us. You’ll notice the flexible roll-out screen and the flexible pull-out key board. The unit itself is an example of how to be functional and to maximize space.

D-roll: Roll Your Laptop To Be A Backpack – The Design blog.

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If you don’t know what DIGG is, your probably living under a rock or  some where that doesn’t have light. DIGG is one of the biggest social news websites on the Internet; if not the biggest.

You can imagine the amount of traffic that this webiste gets on a regular basis, but that’s not enough. DIGG has released the DIGGBAR.

Initially when you go to the website you can look at the top stories on the right or the ones on the left, gaining ground and coming up.

Recently, they started using this DIGGBAR. The DIGGBAR appears when you click on one of the links from the website. It creates a specialized  URL just for that page. The original URL is obscured and placed in the DIGGBAR.

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I’m very disappointed in Nuance.

I saw on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Facebook {April 8th 2009} that Nuance has decided not to support or honor their earlier statements to support the ‘Essentials’ customers.

For months, Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers have been promised updates. Nuance is showing that they are not people of their word.

They have practiced deception and discrimination with their ‘Essentials’ customers. They knew- they knew they were not going to support those customers and said nothing; announced nothing.

They wait until there’s a release/update and then unload on those customers the bad news.

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