The amazon.com today launched a new browser. The Silk. Then you ask yourself, "What for a new browser?". Well, the idea of a browser to amazon.com is much faster than the other ones.
The Silk has an architecture different from that used by most web browsers. With Silk, instead of each page is downloaded directly to the machine and run it on the device, there is a middle tier that does this. That is, when you want to go to a page, the "cloud" of the Amazon, called EC2 makes the request and the page loads much faster than a smartphone, tablet, or even your computer. The processing is done in the "clouds" . We could say that your phone already get all chewed up and processed, increasing the response time for the user.
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 surfing.
The Silk reminds me of the terminal, where we have only one screen. All processing is done by larger machines. And that's good? I'm not sure if this will make sense as more and process connections 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 the browser that you can make the 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.
Poor from him that still does not use the "cloud" ...
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 having 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 get it back going to the website and requesting the dropbox file recovery. Is not it amazing?
And Google Docs has the great advantage of the collaboration. You create an initial document and can invite collaborators to modify it, without losing 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 other than 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're not using these two services as 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 take a look at the website www.netapplications.com to know how the fight goes browsers. This month, the site has divided the results in PCs / Notebooks and Tablets / Smartphones. Even with this new subdivision, the trend will continue.
Internet Explorer and Firefox has been losing market share while Chrome is getting faster rising and approaching the second place, its station remains with Firefox. And the chart, in a year or so, exceed Chrome 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 world of the Internet, Google. It has its more solid foundations. Since the competitors try to approach, but in my opinion, were left behind long ago. While Google can launch several versions of their 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!
For these and other browser that my official 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 thesaurus that much easier when I needed to write an essay. He worked in the following way: 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 a much better way, 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 long time since I wrote anything here, but today it is worth writing.
A wonderful initiative to improve the results of research was done in an unprecedented partnership. Google, Yahoo! and Bing teamed up to create a single page markup to improve the interpretation of search engines and, consequently, the way information is presented to the user that makes the web search.
The site schema.org appears to suggest to webmasters how to show the search engine 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 give in a given schema.org .
