Source: Silicon Valley Insider
Firefox is also struggling to make any headway against Chrome. So unlike Google+ which is being cast aside by many, Google's browser seems to be grabbing increasing Market share.
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Showing posts with label Web browser. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Hate To Say I Told You So, But I Told You So
Late in 2011 I predicted the steady decline of Internet Explorer as the browser of choice. Confirmation this month based on StatCounter global statistics that this has now happened. And it should be noted, unlike IE which comes pre-installed on 90% of the world's computers changing to Chrome is purely a personal choice.
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Share and Share Alike - 2011 Trends
The dominance of Facebook and the rise of Google's Chrome browser are two points of note in this infographic from AddThis.
The use of Google+ for sharing seems to have lost momentum since the initial enthusiasm of its roll out.
Sharing by mobile continues to grow and this trend will continue but Twitter is still the dominant sharing tool in Japan. Twitter had a stellar year with a 600% rise in sharing.
The use of Google+ for sharing seems to have lost momentum since the initial enthusiasm of its roll out.
Sharing by mobile continues to grow and this trend will continue but Twitter is still the dominant sharing tool in Japan. Twitter had a stellar year with a 600% rise in sharing.
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Flock Off
Flock's demise is also perhaps not so surprising considering that their staff were bought up by Zynga in January of this year and are now "working to assist Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, any time - on any platform".
Zynga is best known as the brains trust behind social gaming sites such as Farmville.
Flock positioned itself as the 'social browser' when it first appeared on the scene and was based on the Mozilla platform before switching over to Chromium last year.
Flock grew to more than 10 million users and became the #1 most popular desktop application on Facebook before the talent acquisition by Zynga (the acquisition did not include the technology, service or then CEO so Zynga never owned Flock.com and had nothing to do with today’s shutdown).
Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, writing in USA Today, says:
Flock is a casualty of the social nature of the Web and Facebook's Open Graph initiative. Web denizens now carry their social graph with them via Facebook and not through the browser. Its shutdown also calls to mind the rise and fall of the once great Flip video camera, which is also being discontinued.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Monday, 13 December 2010
Social Media Browsers
There's a new kid on the block, or should that be something new about to leave the blocks?RockMelt aims to make browsing and social media networking a seamless activity as the video below explains.
The browser is developed by the same team who produced the first commercial browser Netscape, 16years ago.
The Telegraph reports that "It is majority-funded by major technology investor, and also Netscape’s co-founder, Marc Andreessen, who has also backed the likes of Foursquare and sits on the board of Facebook".
It will need to compete head on with the likes of Flock and Firefox which have been the social media browsers of choice in recent times.
Scobleizer questions whether this browser has what it takes as a start up?
1. Power users may be frustrated by the fact that the browser only has an answer for Windows and Macintosh
2. It requires a download and most people are download adverse.
3. It requires a login and people are not used to having to log on to their browser.
4. It changes search behavior as RockMelt asks you to use two separate boxes again, which clutters UI and asks you to change your expectations of how search should work
5. The Twitter client isn’t full featured. It doesn’t support real time, for instance
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