Tuesday, June 17th is Download Day 2008 as proclaimed by Mozilla. They are trying to set a new World Record for the most downloaded software in a 24 hour period with their release of Firefox 3.
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
Do your part, click the logo below.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- How far away is Blackberry software for the iPhone?
iPhone naysayers love to point out that it is not a business phone. Can Blackberry software inside change that? Would a flashy phone that achieves the same amount of email addictiveness be a hit with management? RIM confirmed they are working on supportin
- Exxon sells US gas stations to distributors
"As the highly competitive fuels marketing business in the U.S. continues to evolve, we believe this transition is the best way for Exxon Mobil to compete and grow in the future," said Ben Soraci, the director of Exxon Mobil's U.S. retail sales.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Comcast Confirms Upload Cap Increase
Comcast's just sent out a release confirming that they are indeed increasing their upload caps on their cable subscribers. Now all applicable users nationwide will have either a 6/1Mbps or 8/2Mbps, depending on which plan they're currently subscribed to.
- Final Firefox 3 State of the Add-ons Report
The clock's ticking down till Tuesday June 17th, when the final version of Firefox 3 will be ready to download—and there's big progress on the add-ons compatibility front.
No more death by PowerPoint… SlideRocket is taking the presentation slideshow to a whole new level. The initial launch is a web only software as a service product with plans to have a full offline client in a year. This demo from their website and this one from Robert Scoble show SlideRocket pulling in images from Flickr, searching a quote database, displaying flash slide backgrounds, and giving the author the ability to share the slideshow with specific users and ensuring that it doesn’t fall into the hands of competitors or leak to the media. SlideRocket allows you to more quickly author and design much richer slideshows than Keynote or PowerPoint have ever imagined.
Take the time to view the demo video. Though still in private beta SlideRocket will launch to the public soon as a free or paid service.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
In my understanding of the term ‘batch processing’ it was always used to describe systems (usually computerized ones) where data was collected together for a period of time before it was processed. Instead of doing every small ‘job’ as it arrived
- Anti-Child Porn Efforts Will Make The Child Porn Problem Worse?
In discussing NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's success in getting ISPs to block a list of child porn sites and newsgroups, we noted that it wouldn't do a damn thing to stop child porn. The reality is that it may actually make the problem worse.
