The incognito guy is Inspector Gadget! - Joe Dawson
A combination of Inspector Gadget & Casper... - Orli Yakuel
I can't believe you guys actually know Inspector Gadget. He's one of my favorite cartoon characters EVER. - Nir Ben Yona
of course, at least we know that with the guy, Google is at it's strongest, data is pouring into the servers. If you ever notice the guy disappear its because he is taking valuable info back to the Googletron! - Josh Chandler
"Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
Congrats on the great article, Brian. - Bret Taylor
@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe
That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew Burd
Internets are the new rock'n'roll, Andrew, didn't you hear? - Slippy Lane
The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye
Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi
"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim
Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim
Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot is heard. - Geoff Longman
After a pause, Sergey is satisfied Darin is dead and attempts to continue explaining his plan, only be interrupted by Darin again, who says indignantly "you shot me! You shot me right in the arm! Why did you-". Darin sentence is cut short by a second gunshot, which proves to be the end for him, as the hatch is heard to close. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/aus...) - Geoff Longman
Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE
This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer
I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog
http://sachendra.wordpress.com... - Sachendra
The point of Chrome is the same point one would make about the iPhone. Will iPhone outsell Nokia worlwide in total number of phones sold? Not a chance in hell! Has it changed the face of mobile phones forever...absolutely. This is where I think Chrome is a fantastic concept. By open sourcing D8 Google has literally empowered every other browser including Safari and Firefox to be Windows beaters. In actual fact IE may even implemented their own canibalised V8 to canibalise their Microsofts existing fat client business. If you ask me, Google is the master of judo in this case. google 2 MSFT 0 - John Kotsaftis via feedalizr
I haven't been able to find many details about the V8 design, but it's apparently a straight JIT (no interpreter) with inline caching of property accessors. I didn't see anything about HotSpot/TraceMonkey-style optimizing compilation, and it doesn't seem to use any intermediate language. (http://code.google.com/apis/v8...) Is this the future of dynamic language runtimes? Am I a nerd? - Jim Norris
Nice to see Wired putting out a great article in a timely manner for a change - rather than spend page upon page talking about minor internet celebs and how they gatecrashed gawker media parties to build their fame. - Jonathan Beckett
Jim, tracemonkey should still be faster. Paul friendfeeded an article comparing them. I should say that tracemonkey will still be faster eventually, unless V8 adds hotspot-like tracing as well, in which case, my money would ride on V8, since Google probably has half of the hotspot team :) - Sanjeev Singh
And Visual Studio. Scratch that - take Eclipse! - Yuvi
I can open Photoshop on the Mac OS X side. VMware Fusion has been killing me on speed, but this is working fine. I closed Safari on the Mac side. :-) - Louis Gray
I'm also running it in Linux via seamlessRDP, and it's working just fine. You could do seamlessrdp mode via VMware, too...if you don't want to actually see anything else but Chrome itself (and/or whatever other Win apps).I did this with Twhirl and some other clients a long time ago now, too. - abacab
Tried it in parallels, but parallels can't stay stable enough to be open all day - Jesse Stay
I find myself missing Roboform, Adblock, and Searchbox but finding that the rest of the plugins I have on FF3 are nice but not absolutely necessary. - Ernie Oporto
you don't need the searchbox since the address bar is a searchbox too - stefan
Try your Wordpress admin console with Chrome. I can't believe how fast it is. - Tim Steward
i will never use it without adblock .. wonder if google has the guts to allow it - Gregory Lent
Monkiri is a user friendly Firefox/IE addon that enables a web user to capture and share interesting web pages or part of a web page with others. Monkiri lets you grab any part of the web page and instantly publish it either on your Monikri blog, or send it to Blogger/Wordpress blogs. - Orli Yakuel via Bookmarklet
I can see why it's reminding you of Kwout, but it's actually really different. - Orli Yakuel
Yep. I like the concept of visual bookmarks documented on a designated blog, and the ability to direct post to your blog. Makes life much easier. - Nir Ben Yona
lol did they have an army of people working for them? That's a lot of clicks on the ol' Follow button! I love the suspension message that Twitter have on that account - "being investigated due to strange activity". :) - Matt Hooper
I mostly avoid anything that gets mainstream, public and status-quo. - Hayk Hakobyan
someone is using twitter as its backbone? :) - so if oozzi has 160K users.. does it raise their eval or lower it :) - Naor
Naor, IMO anything with such a following must contain or emit info appealing or useful to all those following - that letting only very mainstream, general and grey kind of information to be the case. Otherwise, this oozzi is famous for another reason - i dont know it - and all the followers follow him for sake of following him or having hopes of attaining equal fame or enlightenment :) - Hayk Hakobyan
@Hayk i was looking at the web site in the profile and it's a some kind of social net.. with such amount of users it might the site is using twitter for something for all it's users - that what i meant :) - Naor
Naor, I agree. Using an account instead of the API is not a very smart move. - Amit Morson
Brian, not sure I understand how, care to explain? - Orli Yakuel
Sure! I'm not associated with the project but I think it's cool. Click 'Register' to make an acct, it's just nickname, password, email. After that click the 'Settings' link and the 'More Settings' tab. You'll see the FF nickname box. Now you can browse http://imgfave.com and click "Fave" on any images you like, the thumbnails on FF are gorgeous, much larger than Flickr. I just set mine up, you should definitely click on my name here and check out the big thumbnails of my cat BIG CHEESE - Brian Hendrickson
"moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore." I wonder if it's really work, because it sure sound interesting. - Orli Yakuel via Bookmarklet
Kyle - I just sent you an invite, but thought I should make it public. You are required by the laws of FriendFeed to join the FFA (http://beta.friendfeed.com/roo...). Once you create a group on a network in relation to another network, you are officially addicted. - Justin Korn
no matter it is a splendid idea when thinking about targeting the right people with the right media channel. Techbloggers are probably comicbookreaders... then let's do one. - Niclas Strandh via feedalizr
This post is for us, middle eastern & european Twitter members, that unfortunately can not enjoy Twitter free SMS anymore. (oh wait, that actually goes to anyone that live outside of USA, Canada or India) - Orli Yakuel via Bookmarklet
It cost money isn't it? you get 15 credits for registration plus 5 for Israel, overall 20 messages for free, the rest you get by purchasing 100/200/500 credit packages. - Nir Ben Yona via twhirl
yup. but if DM is a major one2one comm. tool for you .. it worth it - Naor
Nir, every 5 credits are 1 SMS, so you get just 3 4 free... but I bought a package, and happy with it. Naor, not sure about the one_on_one D/M. - Orli Yakuel
Thx Orli, please share the details. How much a 500 pack will cost (i understand it's good for 100 messages) ? - Nir Ben Yona
I bought a pack of 200 (1000 credits) in £10.00 - Orli Yakuel
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