Could the browser wars of the late 1990s web be upon us again? Then it was Netscape versus Internet Explorer, but now with the launch of Chrome it's more than just two browsers pitted against each other. Google's new entry in Chrome is certain to rai...
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Firefox is a brilliant browser. It's also fast. I discarded Internet Explorer (IE) about two years ago. It wasn't an ideological decision, I wasn't trying to make a point... it's just that Firefox is a better browser. I still have IE7 on my laptop, b...
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So now we know. The speculation is over. I was listening to the Apple WWDC event's iPhone announcements lastnight live on ustream, following the excellent live blogging on Engadget and keeping up with the lively micro-blogging commentary. The ann...
Users increasingly need to create accounts with logins and passwords on the sites they visit these days. This is because the web today is no longer a place just for brochure sites, but is increasingly a place for online applications and services like...
It's still startup frenzy on the web (2.0) these days. If you haven't read this before -- here are the 15 startup commandments -- a good read for those doing startup web companies. The author is Mark Fletcher (www.startupping.com), founder of Bloglin...
The official Google news blog has alerted us about a new feature on Google News that will help readers "quickly and easily" find original stories from news publishers.
This should be interesting to watch, particularly in the local context where th...
The existence of Facebook, the smash-hit social-networking site, may unwittingly kill off a host of other Web 2.0 start-ups. This is mainly because of Facebook's inclusive and all-encompassing nature. The site appears to be blogging (lite), Twitterin...
The Sunday Times story surrounding our embattled health minister has been a good example of integrated journalism. The newspaper broke the big story, yet the online presence went further than just plonking a repeat of the story on the web.
Nowaday...
So Google is not satisfied with world domination, but wants to rule the universe too. Hey, even space shuttles need search engines. Ok, at a stretch.
So it transpires that the new version of Google Earth now comes with sky imagery or a “virt...
It just had to happen. Someone had to "define" Web 3.0. And it wasn't just an ordinary someone. It happened to be Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google.
According to Read/WriteWeb, Schmidt "said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "appli...
Matthew Buckland is the GM of Publishing & Social Media @ 24.com. He is the former Mail & Guardian Online GM, and co-founder of award-winning blog aggregator amatomu.com and editorial blog Thought Leader. He has worked in the online medium all his working life literally from its inception in South Africa. He was one of the first new media graduates out of Rhodes University and has previously worked for iafrica.com, Carte Blanche (Interactive), Johncom (e-media) and the BBC Online (beeb.com) in the UK. He is a computer fundi and has had one since the age of 7 (ZX Spectrum 48k), where he spent most of his time creating computer games in BASIC. He has spoken around the world on online media issues, including New York, Germany, Kenya and London.
