From Billy Jones on August 22, 2005 at 3:16 PM
Google is no doubt pushing the envelope when it comes to bringing new technology to Internet users, but Google is in-fact beginning to scare me with rumored projects like free nationwide ISP and wireless services that would no doubt crush any competitors. Could it be there's too much power in one place?
From Dennis Jerz on August 23, 2005 at 9:29 PM
Blogs and do-it-yourself RSS feeds have changed the media landscape since the orignial PointCast era. I never saw a use for the old push mode, but I installed Google's new sidebar on my home computer, and I like it. It doesn't feel like push, because most of the content on the panel is plain old text. I can control the rate at which the photos change.
I'll leave it off my work computer, since I'd rather not be distracted. But on my widescreen laptop, it's a good use of the extra horizontal pixels -- which don't do me any good on the fixed-width web designs of many sites, including OJR.
From Robert Niles on August 24, 2005 at 12:33 PM
Umm, not to give too much away, but whole fixed-pixel thing here might be changing soon....
Google is no doubt pushing the envelope when it comes to bringing new technology to Internet users, but Google is in-fact beginning to scare me with rumored projects like free nationwide ISP and wireless services that would no doubt crush any competitors. Could it be there's too much power in one place?