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No searchstatus on the list :(, get's my vote as alexa/pr plugin, plus it has the option of highlighting no-follow links and several more functions. Works like a charm.

That that was still even being sold, haha. For embedded devices nonetheless it's still ancient history by now. God how long it's been ago since I last touched 3.11.

Have been using FF3 since the first release candidate and so far not a single crash or stopping of browsing here.

I don't run many plugins though, StumbleUpon and SearchStatus is all of them.

It's all working like a charm and a lot faster than FF2 for me.

So much for typing blind. Although I do think that in the future regular keyboards will definitely have made room for stuff like this, a touch screen panel which can bring up a typing interface when needed but most of the things controlled through voice recognition and brain waves.

All that using of our hands to control the keyboard and mice after all are way too many calories being burned ;).

Noise as you call it can be a way of quickly receiving what is practically just the latest news, but on the other hand it usually is also highly inaccurate as details have yet to be revealed.

An indication that something happened which is getting people's attention but it's usually not till the actual news arrives before people really get to know what it's about.

Asides from that, don't forget that essentially most noise is just coming from the news directly, quickly mentioned by one which happened to be watching the news. It's not like it instantly came from those right at the source of things.

In case you have the time on your hands though to follow what's happening in the world by doing so on services like twitter, blogs or any other form of independent journalism on the net nothing is going to stop you. But for those with less time on their hands google news is all they need, or perhaps better to say what they can spare.

On the other hand, noise is far from a bad thing either. Not that I give anything on whether someone knows it before me or not, but simply for the fact that it creates awareness. After all, better to pick up the latest news through the noise than not picking it up at all.

In the end it doesn't matter in my opinion on how many different features there'll be for advertisers to look at when it comes to how much traffic a site might be receiving, it's all pretty much useless data anyways.

The entire idea of izearanks in example is nice, but in the end with autobrowsers and such the entire idea can be put to waste again as well since those might easily add up (unique) pageviews to the blogs just to get ranked higher.

You'll get additions added against the usage of such systems in their ToS and suddenly things like blogmad and whatever more traffic exchanger systems quite a lot of people still use can't be used anymore.

Gets rid of some of the competition though in the ranks, but on the other hand it's just one of the potential issues with a system like realrank. In return yet another ranking system will be designed, it'll be outsmarted and the circle goes around once more.

An interesting analysis, of course it's to question how close it is the truth it might be worth to go by and see what sort of effect it gives.

I somewhat like the new layout, it made it more organized for my taste. Compared to before it's easier to navigate throughout the different products now I'd say and that's definitely a pro for a market place.

If you got a credit card available you can also get an iTunes account, then you have free access to letting all your cover art being updated for free. Makes things a lot easier.

The new features though sound really cool, too bad though that my iPod is still quite young with just a year old or so, not worth it yet to buy a new one :P. But a couple years from now when Apple is a couple series further again and mine dies it'll be a surprise to see which features there are available for me at that time again :).

Apple shouldn't let themselves be turned down now, they should design 3 very special Apple'ified parking meters which include touch screen, the nice Apple design and which will play something random from iTunes on having made a payment!

Now how could the city say no to that ;).

In my opinion apple is absolutely ridiculous for giving money back like this since it was no surprise that the price would drop sooner or later anyways. It sucks, but it's just the way how it works in the IT section. When I bought my iPod in example it was 2 days afterwards when Apple announced they'd be pumping them up to 80GB, did it really bother me? No, it's simply the way it goes.

Look at any purchase you made and everything drops at some point, if you're not really wanting to pay the extra money to begin with then simply wait for the price drop as well, don't go asking for the difference in money back or complain about it.

I must say that even if I don't have 2000 passwords being used which personally I'd just see as way too extreme, I do go around with about 20 different passwords which tend to be unique username combinations to them as well and I've never actually needed any storage program to remember them.

Better yet, no matter how hard I try birthdates, phonenumbers, letter strings, etcetera are simply figures which after I have used them for a couple of times just don't forget.

My first mobile phone number in example which is from 9 years ago by now, I still remember it clearly. My high school student number, no hard time recalling that either. The randomly generated keystring I got with my school mail account, it's there alright. Birthdates of friends and family? I'm like a walking calendar.

Personally I would actually try not to rely too much on programs to store passwords, birthdates, etcetera. Although your brain might not be 100% failsafe at all times, especially when you age, to keep using it effectively is a way though to train it well. So by starting to store all your info into programs you're not really doing your memory that much of a favor at all since it's being reduced in how much it's used.

Calendars, organizers, password storing, etcetera should simply function as a failsafe, not replace your brain.

Have been seeing more and more blogs actually join the dofollow thing lately, guess I should be doing so as well one day even though I don't get too many comments. Since I'm currently in the process of kicking in a nice little new look to my blog I'll go through the list of plugins along and be sure to add dofollow!

I think for a limited amount of bloggers a union might be welcomed, although the amount of bloggers which actually makes an income to live from is just so minimal. If I'd place my guesses on any figure it would probably not come on any higher than 1/10k blogs on the net which actually makes enough money to keep yourself alive with.

The lot of the bloggers though of which I'm definitely one as well probably couldn't care less about a union, it wouldn't serve any additional purpose :).

@Farhan: It's just the thing you'll always see once something "new" has popped up, a massive flood of services trying to bring in something new, become popular and in a lot of occasions, make money out of it.

Only a very limited amount of those services which pop out actually survive. Besides that there's just a large amount of developers, whether amateur or pro's, which are thinking up new ways of using it, "creating" more possibilities.

Within several years AJAX will probably be integrated better within the web, how it will look like exactly will be hard to say right now, but I don't think that much will have changed. Just a difference in what way pages will be handled.

In the end though it'll be up to the visitor on what a page will look like, since if they don't like it most will stay away. For a lot of people the looks of a site have become just about as important, or even more important, as the content.

Nice resource :), I've recently started learning AJAX for myself and a lot of these sites are something I already came by, but it's definately nice for new people to have them listed together like this.

For alternative browsers this looks cool and is a good way to attract new people to it. For Internet Explorer, a browser designed by one of the worlds biggest software producents this looks rather pathetic :P. As if microsoft can't do their own advertisement whilst they're a multibillion company.

An alternative browser user ;)