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Another test post via Posterous

alex8020 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:17:04 +0000

Via Clusterstock: Stocks Rally On News Of Massive Scam, Bailout Collapse

Stocks end the week with an up day after two major shocks.

My Comment: Go figure…

Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature. KTHXBAI.

alex8020 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:56:31 +0000

Looks like Google is adding a Twitter-like IM feature to Gmail, when IM ai actually currently turned off in Twitter (can it please be turned back on, along with “Track”, even if it would have to be a paid “pro” account at say $5/month?). And when is Google going to get it over with and just buy Twitter? Not like Jaiku has been going anywhere…

Via TechCrunch: Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature. KTHXBAI.

Important news on the browser front…

alex8020 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:24:57 +0000

Things are really heating up with the latest betas of Google Chrome and Firefox 3.1 browsers:

Google Chrome‘s latest version, 0.3.154.9, shows a 37 percent JavaScript performance improvement over the initial beta released two months ago. JavaScript is a programming language used to add some pizazz to innumerable Web pages, but more importantly from Google’s perspective, to power sophisticated Web applications such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Gmail. JavaScript is also up against Adobe Systems’ Flash and Flex, Microsoft’s Silverlight, and HTML 5, in the competition for what’s the best foundation for Web applications.
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The new Chrome score catches closer to the 2,250 millisecond score of Firefox 3.1 beta 1 with its new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine enabled. (Tech-Recipes has useful instructions on how to enable TraceMonkey.)