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Evoca 'web voicemail':

$30/year for individuals/businesses/bloggers who are OK with Evoca branding on everything and are limited to 180 minutes of recording storage.

I don't know if there's a business here (though Snapvine raised $10 million for this) but I wish there was a simple solution that just worked.

I'd like people to have the option of sending voicemail to me instead of email, because some people much prefer voice to text (but I may not want my ph# public).
...and Rails surpasses Django in other core areas...

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That's my point exactly - his story was so wrong that he couldn't even get who told him the story right. Doesn't that set off some BS filters?
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"Django just released and that's all."

they have been releasing for a long time. The news here is the 1.0 version number.
Firefox served a useful purpose. It forced Microsoft to develop and release IE7.

Unfortunately, it didn't go away when that purpose was fulfilled. Hopefully now that Google has put out a browser that can actually hang with Internet Explorer, Firefox will finally pack it in.
Recorded music badly needs a new business model, and this seems like it might fit the bill. Congrats.
I'm not convinced it's still a war because no single browser is going to be able to dominate and have undue influence on web technologies as a result. All browsers (yes, even IE) are slowly but surely converging on standards compliance - even if it's taking a while.
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What Google is doing is commoditizing the browser in order to make the web more accessible - and most importantly more like an operating system by including a (supposedly) superior javascript engine that makes it possible to create real apps in a browser window.

The financial interest of Google is not to make money on the browser, but to change the game and move as many apps on to the Internet and away from the computer as possible. This is where their strength lies, and they know it.

In my opinion this is a genius and bold move to which Microsoft basically has no countermoves. If they play along and get better javascript performance in IE apps move to the web, if they don't IE will fall behind firefox and chrome. Either way Google wins.

They don't care about making money on the browser. They care about moving everything into the(ir) cloud.
The thing is that it is NOT an order of magnitude faster than other javascript engines in production.

The Dromaeo test suite shows the production Safari 3.1.2 on Windows beats Chrome. Wow, Safari before the huge JS upgrade beating Chrome on the Windows platform! The SunSpider suite shows Chrome to be around 40% faster than Safari and 25% faster than Firefox 3, but on par with Safari 4.0 and only a tad faster than Firefox 3.1.

In fact, the only thing that shows V8 as being so amazing is Google's own test which is basically a lot of recursion (akin to Microsoft's surveys that show people love Vista).

Google has a good product, but it isn't an order of magnitude better than what exists today and is on par with what is coming in the future. Heck, pull a nightly of the new Mozilla TraceMonkey engine and you'll see that TraceMonkey handily beats V8 (after 2 months of development rather than 2 years). Oh, and Chrome isn't in production.

Different processes will be game changing. V8 just won't be.
Yes -- I'm already using chrome for my everyday browsing. The speed is just too good to ignore.
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Even if Google doesn't, a person/group with sufficient time and skills can just fork the whole browser and add it. It's under a BSD license.

Personally, I'd rather see the porting finished first.
Well, these were old-timey bad guys. Maybe they all said something like "curses! foiled again!" when identified? :)
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It's the same reason certification is often negatively correlated with practical ability.
In Cocoa you use Interface Builder to "draw" the UI. Does Cappuccino have its own IB equivalent?

I was under the impression that part of the point of copying cocoa was that you can use the Cocoa IB to make Cappuccino UIs, also. I would be cool, but I might be wrong.
Google's code is bsd-licensed. So while you might never have ad-blocking in Chrome, you can keep it in a derivative all you like ;)
I always found it somewhat contradictory and hypocritical that the very people that live off ad-based websites (webbased entrepreneurs and founders) are so highly correlated with the group of people that absolutely cannot live without adblocking software - thereby robbing the siteowners of their income model.

Note: spydez - this isn't in any way meant as a personal attack, it just seemed like the right place to put my opinion on the matter.
This is already done in Safari (and probably other browsers): http://webkit.org/blog/96/background-music/

In both Safari 2 and WebKit nightlies, GIFs don’t animate unless they are being painted somewhere. If an animated GIF becomes invisible, then the animation will pause and no CPU will be consumed by the animation. Therefore all animated images in a background tab will not animate until the page in that tab becomes visible. If an animated GIF is scrolled offscreen even on a foreground page, it will stop animating until it becomes visible again.

Many plugins do animation and work based off being pumped “null events” in which they do processing. The faster you pump these events, the faster animations will occur, and the more CPU will be used. Safari 2 actually throttles these events aggressively to background windows and background tabs.
Congrats guys. Of all of the YC startups that I've seen come through you've been the ones that I felt had the most potential to be a truly disruptive technology.
I think this marks an evolution of web interfaces. I'm exited to see what people build using Cappuccino.

I don't think mimicking desktop UI's counts as "evolution".
Hm, perhaps I am misusing that metaphor. Let me try a different metaphor: As you move from well-established, abstract, general principles to newly-proposed ideas that are still being tested against a bunch of specific data, you'll find scientists disagreeing with each other more and more. At the very edge of science, where new hypotheses get started, the put-downs can get pretty sharp. Just because Scientist A calls Scientist B a statistically-ignorant fool doesn't necessarily mean, in any objective sense, that Scientist B is a statistically-ignorant fool. They may just be embroiled in one of those academic debates.

As for your generalizations: I think they're way too sweeping. Gould and Dawkins have written hundreds of thousands of words. Some of those words are probably too daring, others not daring enough; some are words about cutting-edge subjects, some are about classic works in their fields. Some of their words have caught fire in the popular imagination to a much greater extend than their authors intended, i.e. Dawkins' "meme" concept was originally intended as a half-joking metaphor, and he himself doesn't take it too seriously.
Tho' having said that - isn't there a huge disparity in ability between Hollywood writers?
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I wont be switching. Firefox is perfect for my use case and has features I want/need.

Portable Firefox: I use workstations at three different locations during the course of my day. Using Portable Firefox to keep my settings, bookmarks and saved passwords consistent on each machine is a MUST for me.

Adblock: Not necessary, but definitely nice to have.

So yeah, while my use case is pretty specific, Firefox fits it to a T.
You only need to bootstrap it once and write out an image.
Not until Chrome has been out for a while and has proven its security and stability.

Firefox has gone through many years of trial by fire and I am reasonably sure that I am not going to get pwned by browsing to a malicious site with firefox.
Ah. So you propose writing a Javascript compiler that spits out a dynamically linkable, PIC executable for multiple architectures using semi-static assembly, and then using that to write V8? Otherwise, if you simply dump a raw image you've got a closed environment that can't really be integrated into a browser very well, or linked into other apps for their use.

That's a whole lot of unnecessary -- and nontrivial -- work, when all you want to do is interpret Javascript.
This is very impressive from a tech perspective, but what exactly does it have that native Cocoa apps don't?
I wonder if they're getting enough value from Erlang to justify the complexity of the hybrid Erlang/Python implementation. IOW, why not write it completely in Python?
If you're more familiar with things like PHP/Python... etc, something like NOLOH (Not One Line of HTML) http://www.noloh.com might be better. Like Cappuccino, NOLOH allows you to write your application in a single language, instead of Objective-J, the language is PHP. Also, unlike Cappuccino, NOLOH is lightweight and on-demand, this means that it only loads the parts of your application that are currently in use, rather than compiling your entire application in the beginning.
However, NOLOH is a server side platform, the opposite of Cappuccino, but this has the benefit of allowing your application to truly be written in a single language, rather than having to write parts of your application in Cappuccino, and other parts in your server language. I recommend watching the Hello World video in the features section of the NOLOH website to see what I mean.
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And I would argue that this is The Right Way to think about things. When you're working in a shared-nothing world, suddenly the lines you draw between components become much more important. Thinking about these lines and drawing them carefully almost always results in more modular and more flexible software.
yeah, chrome tabs are not "shared-nothing".

They have a common document cache, a common cookie store, a common history store, probably a common dns lookup result cache, and maybe some other things. These all need to be carefully synchronized between multiple tabs.

In fact, I would argue that multi threaded would be better than multi process so that even more things could be easily shared. For example, I imagine that css stylesheets are parsed into some big fat data structure inside browsers. If I open two tabs from a website that share a stylesheet it would be optimal if they share this same internal representation (no locking would be required for the sharing since it's read-only). This has the obvious savings of memory, but it also increases speed since the css file only has to be parsed and processed once instead of multiple times. And things like sharing keep-alive connections between tabs are virtually impossible with multi process, while very possible with multiple threads.
Interesting to me that their site (dreamitventures.com) is a dotnetnuke portal (based on the favicon and linking structure). Didn't think that was being put to use by people positioning themselves on the cutting edge these days.
Perhaps they had a second blind person to check on the first. Then it would be a double-blind test!

<rimshot />

In all seriousness, though: Once they'd caught their suspect and thrown them in Newgate Prison, the authorities could always summon people from the suspect's hometown to ID them more precisely. In theory. In practice, that would surely have been very expensive and slow, and I have no idea how diligent they really were about all that pesky "legal procedure" stuff, particularly if the prisoner didn't have the money to hire a lawyer. Back then they charged prisoners for everything: you had to pay room and board in prison, so if you hadn't managed to hang onto your money (which was probably pretty difficult when you were being arrested by freelance thief-takers...) and you didn't have local friends to look you up in prison and help pay your bills, you could be stuck in there for life, like Charley on the MTA.
If IE users are all ignorant of other browsers, how did FireFox manage to eat into their market share? Or is it that every IE user who could be enticed to switch browsers have already switched?
A browser window.

This is a Javascript wrapper, which means that browsers can execute it. Browsers can't execute Objective C.

I'm not sure why these people felt they needed a wrapper around Javascript, which already has it's own fairly dynamic object model, but meh.

[edit: elaborate a bit]
I'm not sure how they're doing it now, but AMD used to design their multi-core processors optimistically. The RAM would be partitioned between cores, and they would only communicate on a central bus if they needed memory that resided on a different core's partition.

This actually works quite well since the OS tends to schedule a process on the same core, so processes tend to always access the local memory partition.
very cool, I've been wanting to find something like this for a while
i remember hearing about cappuccino a couple years ago when i was at usc (arcaeum?). congrats guys.
I run a music site, and I hate that safari does exactly that. I have to bring the tab to focus if I want it to move to the next song correctly. You'll notice the same behavior on Pandora.
I don't ever recall a time when a web page that I was loading pegged my CPU. I agree that tabbed browsing is embarrassingly parallel. But, are web pages particularly CPU bound? If anything, it's the bandwidth that's throttling the development issue.

The hard core javascript guys I know talk about developing interesting client side code compare it to developing the old 8 bit computer games, and trying to do something really cool and interesting with 64K of memory. They're trying to do something interesting and bundle it up in 64K of code, so the download speeds don't cause people to bounce to another site.
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Does being "dead" mean that you are large, highly successful, can afford to fund massive R&D, but have become too big and ossified to deliver on anything truly groundbreaking your R&D produces?

Maybe Microsoft is just in the same stage of life that Ma Bell and Xerox was in awhile back?
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Yeah, I think I'm one of those developers that will never grasp the need for things like this.

Then again I've been in a text editor for the past seven years and have just recently started developing in Objective C (I'm about half way through "Cocoa Programming for Mac") and I must admit that I was impressed with the intuitive nature of building applications in Xcode and Interface Builder.
Yes. I've already done so on all 3 computers. I'll see how long it lasts. So far so good.
I always found it somewhat contradictory and hypocritical that the very people that live off ad-based websites (webbased entrepreneurs and founders) are so highly correlated with the group of people that absolutely cannot live without adblocking software

what is the contradiction? we feed dog food to the mouth breathers, and save the caviar for ourselves

want "fair"? play checkers

if its any consolation, the precious little community of ad blockers is not even a rounding error in total web use
Thank you for your interesting replies.
Straightforward communication on why things are the way they are, why the mistake was made, and how they fixed it. Refreshing.
if MS can come up with a licensing model that makes it feasible to deploy the CLR as a grid/cloud-computing platform running F# code, then things will get a bit more interesting.
apparently coming in IE8

i would do the same in MS's position - if they can't compete in the market, destroy it. if anyone complained to regulators, MS could claim the IE is the last browser to implement ad blocking
No, the whole point is that they already wrote a compiler, so the in this case Javascript is not interpreted. You only have to bootstrap it once.

They would have had to make their compiler provide a batch compilation mode in addition to the incremental compilation mode, but that should not be a pain point. After all, batch compiling is easier to do than incremental compiling.
if chrome lets you talk to a proxy, you could use privoxy, which is superior in all ways to adblock as well since it centralizes content filtering into a proxy, not a single-app extension
I'm using it as my primary browser, but I'm seeing several errors (or at least inconsistencies). Sometimes, paste+undo when composing in gmail gets me the sad tab. Three downloads have resulted in all of chrome (not just one tab) crashing and burning. Alt-d (which acts as ctrl-l in ff and ie) works properly but boops at me; I feel scolded and when I'm feeling emotionally fragile it's really hurtful. Webkit's developer functionality does most of what I need firebug for, although I haven't used it extensively. The speed, clean ui, and novelty are keeping me happy for the time being, although I do wish they had a handy feedback system so I could bitch right back when alt-d bitches at me.
I get rid of everything except the address bar. Previously I didn't even have that showing most of the time, as there was a keyboard shortcut to hide and show it (which has since been removed).

Once you've taken away all the clutter, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome all look quite similar (you can't remove much from IE7). Chrome is still the fastest by a huge margin, which is why I'll probably start using it on Windows.
There will be virus free computers within 5 years. Widespread adoption will happen within 10.

Malware takes advantage of the fact that security architectures are over 30 years out of date. Someday the OS in a computer will be as invisible to the average user as the preamplifier in a home theater sound system. We should have some modern security features like capabilities by then.

I don't see why one couldn't have an OS that consisted entirely of a web browser, and absolutely nothing else visible to the user. System prefs would just be the pages accessible under "system:" If that browser was like Google Chrome, then everything could be sandboxed. (No web plugins or ActiveX. In fact, there could easily be no way for any executable code to get on the box other than Javascript, which would be subject to the sandboxing.)

In any case, spam hardly bothers me at all. I rarely see it. When I do, it's not a hassle. My problem is with information overload from legitimate sources. That is getting to be a problem!
I’m convinced that iTunes and the iPhone are not the only reasons Mac is gaining market share. The other is that people have come to realize that they do not really need Windows anymore. Any ol’ operating system will do.

If any ol' operating system will do, I'd expect people to choose the cheapest one they could find. Since Mac is gaining market share and is not the cheapest option, the operating system's contents must still matter.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated...

Consumers are one thing, businesses are another. Businesses spend a "crapload" on computers and many of them are stuck in the Windows world. While home users with simple email needs can switch, MSFT still has the cash cow business buyers which are less price sensitive than consumers.

While I like Ubuntu, even our Linux admin just switched his (work) desktop to Vista b/c it was too much of a pain to interop with our Windows network. Sometimes it's just not worth the pain.
If you own the browser you can decide what the default search engine is.

As other search engines catch up with Google on quality of results and usability, the relative switchover cost will become more significant.

So I don't think this is just about standards and performance, though obviously that is powerful too.
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How do you effectively manage your contacts and calendar? Been using my phone (samsung u740) w/ limited success including can't keep contact info like street address, calendar is hard to see, and not able to sync easily with a desktop app (except bitpim). Do I just spend the cash/reup my wireless contract and go with a new smart phone, maybe synced to outlook, just use an ultra portable pc, paper???? what do you use and how's it going?
While I currently only have about twelve tabs open, in the past I have gone above 100. I tend to use tabs to store things I will look at in the recent future, and also as a way to follow threaded comments, or links within articles.
We've got a couple things we're working on to address this. There's already some hints in the public repository... (look for stuff about "NIB"s)
There is no war. This is a takeover. Did you see that link on Google's Homepage?
Repeat with me:

"I will never, ever, even think of betting my company´s future on another company´s product"
You have a point with this. I personally prefer to focus on content instead of having to ignore advertising that I will never click on unless I'm actually in a buying mode; when I'm NOT in a buying mode, there is no way in hell I'm clicking on that irritating HP flash eye-sore! If merely being exposed to an advertiser's message is the purpose of advertising on websites, then I would have to politely/respectfully say that I prefer not to be exposed to that which I am not choosing to have exposure.

I'm overwhelmed as it is...ad-blocking really helps turn down the noise. To me the whole approach of blasting users with advertisement is flawed, unless of course I'm actually in the mode of purchasing something, in which case I will gladly jump to Chrome or Safari (on my Mac at home).

I think having the freedom to turn the noise off/on as you see fit is part of a larger trend of the future where you have the option to do as you wish. Afterall, isn't freedom one of the core principles of the internet?
I'm not really proposing anything, since the V8 team has forgotten more about VMs than I know, just pointing out another common design alternative. The post implies that V8 can already perform some sort of AOT compilation:

When you build V8 from source, you can have it generate a snapshot of the memory state once the libraries are loaded and this gets packaged in the executable. It makes it slightly bigger but the load time is blazingly fast.

There's certainly extra work in this approach, but maybe it would be worth it if it allows the compiler to be written in a more productive language.
Google Calendar rocks for managing your calendar. I don't know a good solution for the contacts.
All the companies and markets the article talks about are quite old. It seems like some kind of natural law that only relatively younger, hungrier companies will attempt to "Chrome" an industry. Any good counterexamples?
No offense take. I'm not an entrepreneur. ;)

But if I ever do come up with an awesome idea, I'm determined I'll create it and make money off of it without putting up adverts. I hate adverts with a burning passion and I'm not about to force them down my potential users throats.
This may not be first; I think Chandler also supports iCal.
Even within corporate installations, actually. Chrome installs entirely in user space on a XP machine, and doesn't need admin permissions to install. That should allow it to be installed on all but the most locked-down corporate boxes.
Right out of "A Prairie Home Companion." (Although not from there myself, I have family from Northern Minnesota.)

While listening to her speech, I could envision the air quotes when she said 'Here's a little "news flash"'

I bet a bunch of comedians are secretly, well maybe not so secretly, wishing that the Republicans win because they provide such interesting and easily crafted caricatures. Not to say Obama and Biden wouldn't be ready material for parody, but the "McCain and Palin Show" practically writes itself, don'cha know!