Google Buzz: Where new friends stay on the superficial side

After almost a week on Buzz, I have to say it’s been a blast. I love peeking in on random buzzes from people living around me using Buzz’s mobile interface. Through this, I’ve been able to get to know a few other fellow Android users in the Klang Valley area. We’re now following each others’ [...]

[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS as I imagine it

Google’s announcement only drops a few hints here and there, and the world just went crazy with speculation.
Glancing through my feeds, some comments seem to be centered around the theme “you’re just a web application peddler, what makes you think you can handle the complexity of maintaining a full-fledged OS?” (Sorry, I tried looking for [...]

What? Can’t take a bit of competition?

So now the IT media world just went wild over Google’s Chrome OS announcement. Comments are coming in from all over, some overly optimistic, some dismissive. All of these are speculative at best, and none of them carry a lot of weight as Google hasn’t even done a code drop yet, much less a release.
Some [...]

So Google is the lumbering giant now?

So it seems that Google, the startup that nimbly side-stepped all challenges from entrenched search providers, is a lumbering giant now, unable to update its results as fast as tweets are coming. Rather appropriate that this was published in a newspaper where the term “New York minute” was coined.
One wonders though, what advantages would it [...]

Who should use alpha-status Chromium on Linux?

Note: As with all opensource projects, Chromium is in a continuous state of change. This article was published on the 13th June 2009. If you are reading this more than 3 months after it was written, you should take everything with a generous pinch of salt and check for updates. Who knows, in 3 months, [...]