If you were not aware of it today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. To help ensure that Pirates can search for the content they are looking for online Google has added support for the pirate langauage to their search engine.
This week Gmail made availible in the Labs one of the more helpful options, the Forgotten attachment detector. Atleast twice a month I seem to forgot to attach a file and it always seems to be one of those more important emails. Hopefully this will help.
Amazon announced that it is expecting to roll out a Content Delivery Network before the end of the year. As a user you will store your files on S3 and then make an API call and get a new domain name to use for your web pages. This is different from the functionality already availible in S3 because when the website visitor accesses your file they will be routed to the nearest edge location. This will allow for latency and the highest data transfer rates. Below are Amazon’s goals for the content delivery service:
• Lets developers and businesses get started easily – there are no minimum fees and no commitments. You will only pay for what you actually use.
• Is simple and easy to use – a single, simple API call is all that is needed to get started delivering your content.
• Works seamlessly with Amazon S3 – this gives you durable storage for the original, definitive versions of your files while making the content delivery service easier to use.
• Has a global presence – we use a global network of edge locations on three continents to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.
Google released a comic book to help explain Chrome.
Google recently announced the launch of their new browser. I downloaded it as soon as it was availible. I have been very impressed with it. I figure if I am running GMail, Reader, and Analytics in a browser I might as well do it in a browser designed by Google. Good to see some more innovations in the browser space. The JavaScript engine that it is using (V8) was designed for speed. I don’t know if it is the fastest out there as I have seen some speed tests where it did beat Firefox, but in some others it did not. With more and more sites using JavaScript and Ajax to improve the user experience and make online applications more like desktop ones hopefully Google as a player will help push along the development of JavaScript Engines. In term allowing even more interactive sites.