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Firefox doubles market share as IE slips

A fellow Gavin writes in the Register that:

Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market for this month, down from 84.85 per cent, while Firefox grew from 4.23 per cent to 10.28 per cent. Janco believes Firefox could take 25 per cent market share in the next quarter.

Separately, Infocraft reported the browser is approaching nearly 50m downloads, up from February’s milestone figure of 25m, which was recorded 99 days after Firefox 1.0 became available last November.

That is rather quick growth indeed.

Blogging widows

It is my duty as a blogger to inform my fellow bloggers that a quick search may lead them to find that a certain phrase has been used before:

Jafablog has a list of blogs that talk about the subject
Dan Drezner’s wife used the phrase back in January 2004, and remembering that post prompted me to write this post.

Sorry to all concerned for my being so anal retentive.

Business Week's cover: the kiss of death

As a counter to the recent Business Week cover story on blogs, Henry Copeland takes us through some examples of why it may not be such a good thing:

Yesterday a friend who runs a hedge fund reminded me of the Wall Street maxim — “sell when Business Week’s cover says buy.”

I’m pretty sure Business Week is right about blogging but wrong about its own role in the game. More thoughts in the blog post below.

Back in the day…

Slashdot have a pointer to the earlier examples Google’s homepage. Or even the redirect page when they moved to Google.com. Notice the initial use of exclamation! marks!, it! has! since! disappeared! I think they may have liked Yahoo! a bit too much.

Ah does it bring back memories, I can’t remember the exact time, but I do remember using Google way back in 1999 – I think it was pointed out to me by a friend. I was immediately taken with the accuracy of the search, as at the time I was using Excite.com.

Foreign Policy May/June

FP popped through the letterbox today, and as ever it has some quality pieces. Only some links, the website has mainly not been updated as of yet.

The cover story is an essay by Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defence from 1961 to 1968 and president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. In it he discusses the issue of nuclear weapons – and now believes that the US must no longer rely on them as a foreign policy tool. He argues that to do so would be immoral, illegal and very very dangerous.

Ireland also features, having been beaten into second place by Singapore in the 5th Annual Globalisation Index. It notes:

The luck of the Irish finally ran out, as last year’s runner-up, Singapore, took the top spot in this year’s ranking, ending Ireland’s three-year streak. One key to Singapore’s rise was its increased political engagement. The island nation built bridges in 2003—increasing its financial contribution to U.N. peacekeeping missions by 41 percent. (Indeed, a Singaporean general commanded the peacekeeping force in East Timor for much of 2003.) Singapore solidified its first-place ranking in foreign trade by signing a bilateral free trade agreement with the United States in May 2003, the first such agreement the United States had signed with an Asian nation. Meanwhile, Ireland’s strong economy slumped, with GDP growth sliding from a robust 6.9 percent in 2002 to a tepid 1.8 percent in 2003. There was other movement in the top five. Finland fell from fifth to 10th place. The United States jumped from seventh to fourth and became the first large country to crack the top five. Nations with large populations (and large domestic markets) generally fare worse in the index because they are typically less dependent on foreign trade and investment. The strong U.S. showing is primarily a result of its remarkable technological prowess.

The issue of the Japanese death penalty comes up in an article by Charles Lanes of the Washington Post. Japanese officials keep state executions out of public view, and condemned prisoners are not even told the day they will die.

The “Think Again” section is always one of the best – this time it’s on Iran. It is written by Christopher de Bellaigue of the Economist.

I will go through each of these once the website is updated.


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