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Archive for September, 2008


Facebook to test Report Abuse Icon developed by New Jersey Attorney General

Facebook has agreed to test the report Abuse Icon developed by New Jersey Attorney General. The report abuse icon allows you to quickly report abusive behavior and sexually inappropriate materials to the operator of the social networking site. Site operators using the icon have agreed, among other things, to review all reports and alert law enforcement about possible predators or crimes.

Facebook will display a Report Abuse! icon on a small fraction of its pages that display videos instead of its own link for reporting objectionable material.

Google enters Browser market with Google Chrome

Google knows the pulse of people and its their long vision that has taken them this far. The very thought that the billions of internet users spend the time online in a browser, be with mail, chat rooms, searching or anything. Google want to cash in this traffic also, so here it is Google Chrome.

Google Chrome according to google is a fast and clean browser. In Google Chrome each tab in an isolated “sandbox” and is able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. Google also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

Benefits Chrome would bring to google if its a success

  • More search traffic and more google users
  • More advertisement space, lets expect some text adds in this browser later on
  • Google can know the entire browsing trends of users

Google Chrome would be lauched today. We would try and review the browser then.

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