Content Management: December 2004 Archives
A sure sign of a browsers emerging adoption by internet users can be ascertained by analysing the agent section of your web log stats to that end visitors using firefox to read irishsilicon.com have grown from 11.23 % in Oct, 12.57% in Nov to 23.36% in Dec.
My colleague Bernie GoldBach has been writing quiet favourably about this browser. I've installed at home on my Windows XP ISDN dial up pc, Redhat Linux 9 laptop and Windows 2000 office pc and its quiet impressive, especially over the ISDN connection at home. I first came across firefox in August when downloading some updates for the mozilla browser for my linux laptop. It was very impressive on linux and the install was simple and fast. Since then its emerged as a potential heavy weight rival to Microsoft's IE.
For an alternative explanation of video compression, have a look the following dilbert comic strip
I keep a close eye on my weblogs so as to ascertain why people are visiting the site. My traffic levels are not that high, but I am interested as to who is reading my content. One thing I have noticed lately is that Microsoft have been crawling through all my pages.
Microsoft has now been surpassed by exava.com which is transitioning to become.com
Become.com describes itself as "Become, Inc. is a venture-funded start-up that is building the next generation search engine for shopping. We are developing an innovative new search engine technology that will significantly improve the online shopping experience."
The people behind become.com are the same people who masterminded mysimon.com , Michael Yamg and Yeogirl Yun.
