Google turns 10 today. I never realized 10 years passed so quick. From a US100 thousand dollar startup company operating out of a garage to a 160 Billion dollar company operating from the [GooglePlex][2]. [See the old Google page][3]. Today Google has it’s hands in almost everything. Ads, docs, search, groups, images, maps and the list goes on. The latest being their home grown browser “[Google Chrome][4]” and their mobile platform “[Android][5]”. ...
[][1]The folks at [dropbox][2] released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon. The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closed source. Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need to compile from source. Go to the download page. I managed to get dropbox working on my openSUSE 11 running KDE. It’s quite simple actually. You need to install the nautilus and nautilus-devel pakages before compiling the source, ...
[][1][<img loading=“lazy” class=“alignnone size-medium wp-image-872” title=“Google Chrome” src="/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/chrome-205_noshadow.png) [][2]Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday. Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered. Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome though it’s open source project “Chromium”. To start, It’s open source under a permissive BSD license. Developers will get the best from the project and vice versa. ...
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Aaron Sorkin creator of West Wing is planning to make a movie about “Facebook” togather with Sony and procuder Scott Rudin. The one single word that is common amongst every single person I know today is Facebook. What other advertising would they need for the movie? Source: [BBC][2] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/08/facebook-da-movie.jpg) [2]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7585632.stm