The amazon.com today launched a new browser. The Silk. Then you ask yourself, "What for a new browser?". Well, the idea of amazon.com is to make a browser much faster than the other ones.
The Silk has an architecture different from that used by most existing browsers. With Silk, instead of each page is downloaded directly to the machine and everything running on the device, there is a middle tier that does this. That is, when you want to get into a page, the "cloud" of the Amazon, called EC2 makes the request and loads the page much faster than a smartphone, tablet, or even your computer. Processing is done in the "clouds" . We could say that your phone already receive all chewed and processed, increasing the response time to the user.
The Amazon has just launched the Silk in conjunction with its latest line reading devices besides the Kindle Kindle Fire, which is a tablet not only reading but also for videos, games, music and web browsing.
The Silk reminds me of the terminal, where we have only one screen. All processing is done for larger machines. And that's good? I'm not sure if this will make sense as more connections and processing are faster and cheaper components. Finally, a bet of giant books. The cool thing is that this story was released today readers of books very cheap and this can make the browser experience with e-readers much more comfortable.
Let's wait a little longer to see where the Silk can achieve and what changes it can bring in the way of looking at browsers.
Every day that passes I realize how to use services like Google Docs or Dropbox easier day by day with documents and projects. Before the idea of storing documents in the clouds, came several times to get lost between versions of documents stored in different computers, notebook, pen-drive ... With Dropbox, I have a single, definitive version of all my documents. And the same applies to Google Docs.
The Dropbox has the advantage of making a copy of all files in the operating system on all machines that I install. And all of these machines will always have the latest version. If I accidentally delete a document, I can retrieve it by going to the site's dropbox and requesting the file retrieval. Is not that amazing?
And Google Docs has the great advantage of the collaboration. You create an initial document and may invite employees to modify it without you miss the original document since all changes are in history. Just as with drivers version like Subversion.
That is, today, I can not start any document that is not in the Dropbox folder or directly in Google Docs. In my opinion, this is one of the greatest technological revolutions for the average user since the advent of the Internet as we know it.
If you do not already use services like these two mentioned, you should try. I have no doubt that their productivity, organization and effectiveness will improve greatly.
See the video below with a brief explanation of "cloud computing":
Every month I look at the site www.netapplications.com to know how the fight goes browsers. This month, the site has divided the results into PCs / Notebooks and Tablets / Smartphones. Even with this new subdivision, the trend holds.
Internet Explorer and Firefox has been losing market share while Chrome is getting faster rising and approaching the second, whose position remains with Firefox. And the chart, in a year or so, Chrome exceed the Firefox ...
Firefox until recently was the faster and more browser friendly. But after the release of Chrome, Firefox never met my expectations and those of many others. Chrome has been built by the company that best understands the internet world, Google. It has its more solid foundations. Have the contestants try to approach, but in my opinion, left behind long ago. While Google can launch multiple versions of your browser for years, its competitors sweat a lot to do the same. And even when they can release a new version, which seems to be simply trying to get closer to its greatest threat, Chrome!
It is for these and the other officer in my browser notebook PC or netbook remains Chrome. And yours?
A Facebook friend of mine just told me to talk about a great initiative on the Internet. It is the creative Dictionary .
I remember as a child to have a dictionary of ideas like that much easier when I needed to write an essay. He worked as follows: You searched for the word love for example, and brought all the dictionary words, phrases and ideas related to carnal, romance, love bandit ...
This Dictionary has this creative idea, but in a much better, since we now have powerful internet to our advantage. If this initiative succeeds, the gain in terms of text, music, seminars and discussions will be immeasurable.
It had been a while since I wrote anything here, but today it is worth writing.
A wonderful initiative to enhance research results was made in partnership than ever before. Google, Yahoo! and Bing teamed up to create a single page markup to improve the interpretation of search engines and, consequently, how the information is presented to the user which makes searching the internet.
The site schema.org appears to suggest to webmasters and search engine to show what kind of information that is in HTML and what their most important properties.
For example, when doing the following page, the searcher does not know exactly what the subject is on the page:
<div> <h1> Avatar </ h1> <span> Director: James Cameron (born August 16, 1954) </ span> <span> Science fiction </ span> <a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html"> Trailer </ a> </ Div>
So you say that this is a movie and shows the seeker who is the director, the genre of the film and even points out where the trailer. Imagine a film search page. If your page is with the correct marking, more likely to appear and be consistently displayed in the search.
If you are a webmaster, you should check it out in schema.org .
