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Dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 - Googles doing it and so are we!

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:51:00 -0700

This just in from google from our Google apps admin account: Google Is dropping support for IE 6!

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Queenstown Web Design and managing social media

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:14:00 -0700

How do you keep up with all the new "rage" of social media?

Updating twitter, facebook, youtube, what a nightmare to keep all those things on the go for your Queenstown website.

But there are a few tools to make life easier:
Flock - what the flock? its a web browser from the same people who made firefox(the Mozilla foundation). You can have all your social media at your finger tips and easily update all you blogs, twitters, etc from one place.
flock.com

If your an Uber twitterer' check out TweetDeck for your desk top, and Tweetie for your Iphone.

Kosmix.com - searching websites, blogs, media, and more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:10:00 -0700

Some where in the Kosmix!

Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics.

Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.

Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions.
Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.