Digital Living

The Team That Develop "Google Chrome"

Google took 6 years to develop their "chrome" browser. The project involves many people with different expertise and extraordinary gifted talents. During the past 6 years, these people come to Google through  hiring or through series of strategic acquisition.

Here's a picture of the team involved:

And here's the fascinating story behind "chrome" great effort and development:

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html

During the great days of Windows (1990s), we always remember names like Brad Silverberg and the bunch of team that created Windows. During the era of the excellent Mac OS X Tiger we remember names like Avi Tevanian.

I wonder who now develop the "boring, dorky" IE ??

How Would We Enjoy Music In The Future?

Many people argues that buying music from iTunes is the best way to enjoy digital music today. Around the world we see increasing trend that more and more people love this.

Yet still people argue whether that would be really the case of the future. Would we enjoy downloading and playing music online in the future, or would we rather play it live from the web instead?

Would the future iPod and iPhone be the place where we store our digital music, or would the internet instead becoming our giant jukebox?

Digital music enjoyed, livecast from the web!

I am imagining a future whereby people purchasing music from the web, and "downloading" those music to their "web" instead of downloading it to their local music player harddrives. By storing their music on the web, they can annotate their likes and dislikes and have the powerful "social networking" feature of the web discover even more tastes around the world that would match or enrich these individual's profile!

With that, people can enjoy and discover music in richer ways around the globe, as the networking and discovery engine help them match and discover tastes around the globe, than if they isolate their music individually inside their own "iPod" cubicles.

Would this be the more preferred way of how people would enjoy music in the future?

We shall see how the future goes. ;-)

How To Make Unlimited Calls Around The Globe At $12.95/Mo??

Skype recently introduced a new pricing scheme that allow people to make unlimited call to a country, or to many countries around the globe.

They provide people with ability to subscribe at around $5.95 (for one country) up to $12.95 (for many country) per month. With such subscription, everybody can enjoy unlimited calls to landlines telephone number, at anytime, around the globe.

This is the complete pricing scheme:

Now imagine that a start-up company located in Jakarta or Bali have some major customer and partners (all with landline connection) in USA, Hongkong, Singapore, Australia and China. They need to communicate constantly. How much would such everyday communication and coordination cost now? $12.95 per month!!

A major shake up on the great VOIP communication revolution is about to begin! And Skype is definitely in the best position to dominate and/or win that all.

Linux Desktop Soon Will Understand "Touch" Gesture!

Soon Linux/Ubuntu desktop system will start to understand "touch" gesture.

Being called Ubuntu MID (Mobile Internet Device) edition, this Linux based operating system aimed not only to become as friendly and as beautiful as Apple Mac OSX, but at the same time -- complemented by the increasing popularity of the NetPC -- also being targeted to spur Linux-desktop adoption in the mass market.

Truly fascinating future.

Stay tune, and let's see how the future goes. :-)

iTunes U: Another (Great) Innovation From Apple!

When life & information is being digitized, the innovation possibilities are endless. Apple iTunes U is another great example:

iPhone 3G Is Released Today!

Apple 3G is released today. And with it comes a new way to take a look at the internet from a totally different view, experience and perspective.

Not only the device is a 3G device. It is also offering a new whole way to buy and experience application, on and off the net. Awesome.

Mr. Ballmer will need to start "photocopying" these concept again I assume, and -- while his troop is busy photocopying -- he will, as usual, start announcing his "pooh pooh" statement of what his lauzy Windows mobile system can do (better?) against Apple iphone/itouch system.

What a lauzy leader.

Firefox Sets A New Guiness-Book World Record As The Most Downloaded New Released Software!

The formal announcement is not yet made, but the official is now preparing to announce Firefox as the most downloaded new-release software on the internet.

We always believe in the power of the people. The magical act of people doing things together.

But the way they do it is really really awesome. How they come up with an idea that makes people around the world do something great and really excellent together is really really awesome.

And -- at the end -- the way they let everybody that is involved to keep a "token-of-rememberance" of such world-scale accomplishment is really really wonderful. Truly wonderful too. This is how they did it:

People around the world. We can create truly magical things together.

Truly awesome!!

ps: I'm waiting for my "banner" too :-) Such would be really really awesome to keep and remember. :-) :-) :-) Once, in a lifetime occassion. :-)

Firefox 3 Released -- Now Ready To Download!

Finally Firefox 3 is released! The best firefox yet, probably the best (and the fastest) browser so far as well.

Click here to download or for more information.

ps:

After nearly three years' development and three release candidates, Firefox 3 is now ready and will be officially launched on June 17, 2008, aka Download Day 2008, which is hoped to set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. We have made pledges at spreadfirefox.com to help Mozilla team to achieve such a record, so do also tell your friends, family and colleagues to pledge to download Firefox 3 at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ during Download Day. To know everything about Firefox 3, click here to read Debra Lynn Richardson's "A Field Guide to Firefox 3". Go Firefox, the web browser is mush faster, safer than Microsoft's Internet Explorer which nowadays often gets staggered when I log in to my Google's Gmail account.

Multi-Touch Interface & The "Look And Feel" Of Computers In The Future...

Multi-touch interface will redefine how we interact with computers and how we interact with information that surrounds us.

In the past, multi-touch approach can only be done using specialized device that early pioneers such as Jeff Han had created.

But, in a not-very-long-future, multi-touch interface might touch every aspect of our life. It really perhaps one day should be the way we are interacting with our computers from now on.

Take a look at how it could be:

iPhone 3G -- "Double" The Speed, Half The Price -- Awesome!!

The magnificent beauty now comes with better speed through 3G, and with its magnificent price cut in half!

Awesome. Splendidly awesome!! A big platform war is about to begin!

We'll see how Microsoft, Blackberry, Android and Symbian will respond.

ps: Here's a video that depicts people's "prediction" about what the "next" iPhone features would be; and how will look like. Pretty fascinating stuff. Enjoy!