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Here is a slide presentation that I found interesting. The quotes are quite funny and the predictions are scary accurate.

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Whether you use the Firefox browser (if you don’t you should) or not you can’t deny that the amount of people switching away from miserable IE to the free Mozilla browser is sky-rocketing. Firefox is running a campaign to set a Guinness book world record for most downloads of one program in one day. That day is today June 17, 2008 and the numbers are expected to be staggering.

If you would like to be a part of the download number or just want to upgrade from v2 to v3 click here.

Here is what Firefox is saying about the new version:

What’s New in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 15,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

 Check out the top 10 new features to Firefox 3.

Other than Office apps…What percentage of your work do you do in a browser vs. desktop apps?

This is a conversation! If you read this questions I would ask that you please leave an answer via a comment. I will write a follow-up post on this question next week and the post will change depending on your answers. Thanks!

  I love this image because for me it encompasses the way people <bias> should use the internet<bias/>. Personally, these are the three tiers of my web experience. The hardware, the interaction, the information.

Tier #1: Apple 
As you probably know if you read this blog regularly I recently purchased a Mac Book Pro and absolutely love it. It is so nice to finally have a machine that I don’t have to worry about it working properly.  The suite of applications is just as robust or better than a PC running Windows and is likely better designed. So, let me just dispel the rumor that you won’t be able to find applications for a Mac. I can guarantee if you enjoy being on a computer at all then getting a Mac will exponentially increase that enjoyment. I see Macs continually increasing their market share and thus being the premier computers (mainly laptops) of the future.

Tier #2: Facebook 
In my eyes Facebook sort of represents social networking on the web. I was a relatively late adopter to the social web and that was in 2004 when Facebook really started to grow to other universities outside of Harvard. I remember the day that my school, Miami (OH), got Facebook. I joined that day. We had heard about it prior to its arrival because of the stink that MySpace was making. How much better is Facebook?

Obviously there are other social tools out there, that’s not what I’m arguing. I’m merely using Facebook as the poster child for the social web. Social software has changed the general uses of the web. The days of one way information flows on the internet are archaic. The web will can only get more and more interactive.

Tier #3: Google 
The top layer of these building blocks is Google. Really it could be the first layer or the middle later but for the sake of this image, its the top. Google is the key to the door that keeps information from the consumer. Can you imaging an internet where you had to guess URLs in order to find good websites? Or a web where only the highest paying websites would come up? You wouldn’t be reading this, that’s for sure (hold comments about wishing you weren’t reading this!) The web is open, accessible, free, opportunistic, all thanks to the guys who wanted to download the internet, Google.

As more and more of my projects move online I find myself worrying about web strategy more and more. As a “blogger” (I hate that name) who is becoming more transparent to the world everyday, “personal brand strategy” is very important. Karen O’Brien writes a web strategy blog and in this post explains how web strategy is becoming very segmented. Karen identifies the segments much better than I could so I’ll let her tell you….check out her post.

So you may think that I’m obsessed with Seesmic of late and you’d probably be right. I like it, I think its a great idea with a lot of legs and I think that video on the internet will continue to take up more and more of the web.

This video is an interesting take on Seesmic from the perspective of a journalist. He talks about the idea of using the video as practice for better journalism. However he does draw the difference between online video (youtube, seesmic) and regular television journalism.

This is proof that Seesmic will last because it shows how many different people/markets can find value in the product.