About Google+
Posted on January 17, 2012
Social media sites rise and fall seemingly overnight. Just three or four years ago, MySpace dominated the social media space. Then came Twitter, allowing users to provide real-time status updates that everyone could see. Facebook followed not far behind, and is expected to reach 1 billion users soon.
Third time’s the charm
Google, which has dominated the search engine world and the webmail world with Gmail has had a tough time in this environment. Google Wave and Google Buzz were attempts to capture a portion of the social media market, and they both failed miserably.
Google+ is the third product offered by Google in an attempt to capture the social media space, and it seems to have gained some traction.
What does Google+ do?
Google+ does what other social media sites do: it connects people. Google+ allows you to stay in touch with family, friends, colleagues, business associates, businesses, customers, and more. In that regard, it’s a lot like Facebook.
What makes Google+ different?
Google+ isn’t exactly like
Why Chrome Is Winning the Browser War against Firefox
Posted on January 30, 2012
Since its debut in 2008, Chrome has made steady gains in the browser wars. While it isn’t about to overtake pack leader Internet Explorer anytime soon, it’s been beating out Firefox for the past six months or so. That’s no small feat for such a relatively young product.
Why does Chrome continue to show up Firefox? There are several reasons, some to do with Firefox itself:
- Firefox is slow. It loads more slowly than other browsers. While Firefox 4 loads quicker than previous versions, it’s still terribly slow when compared to Chrome. The same goes with page loads; Chrome is able to get