It’s a pretty interesting format and way of showing the functions of google’s browser, google chrome. I think it did a decent job of going through the processes and reasoning why they had setup the browser the way they did.

A couple of things I had researched after reading the comic was about the webkit. A lot of people were under the impression that the webkit was from apple, but actually apple had been using an open source code that can be found here that grew out of the KHTML and KDE open source projects.

Google Chrome is an open source web browser. After using it for a couple of days, I can say that it opens gmail and other javascript dependent web email apps like yahoo mail and even hotmail a lot quicker than firefox (and IE the occasional times that I’ve used it). I didn’t have a very scientific method of testing it, but it was just from my observation and interacting with gmail, grand central, yahoo mail and a few other sites that I frequently visit.

I do like the “most visited” view when I open a new tab. It saves me time in going to the websites that I usually use the most… namely gmail and yahoo mail.

I started missing some of the plugins that I use often with FireFox while using Chrome; but the speed and flexibility for Chrome has given me some high hopes to look forward to in new revisions.

The plugins that I use seem to see the most of in FireFox (and I just recently reloaded my computer and firefox plugins…so I’m a little more conscious about it than I normally would be) are All-in-One Gestures, Better Gmail 2 and Foxmarks.

I have played around with other web browsers in the past see my thoughts on flock here. But I usually end up going back to my trusty stand by of FireFox. Although it was rough going for a little while right after FireFox 3.0 came out and a lot of the plugins that I had used hadn’t been updated yet. But, we’re back to the good old trusty FireFox.

For now, I’ll be using google chrome mostly for checking email since it seems pretty snappy and fast at that. And I do like the fact that I can move the tabs around or even pop them out to a new window.

One of the other things that I noticed, and it might just be on my system is if I have google chrome open for awhile at the same time that I’m browsing with FireFox; occassionally I’ll have FireFox lock-up and not be able to close my tabs. I’m not sure if this is just because I had too many tabs open in FireFox or whatever the reason (it also usually starts to happen when FireFox starts to go over 100k in mem usage.

I’ll keep you posted on my thoughts as I continue to use google chrome and test it out on various web sites.

He had purchased the resale rights to Mike Kemski’s Banabu product. The interesting thing about this offer was that Banabu had a built in continuity to deliver a monthly newsletter that was provided with the purchase of the Banabu product.

What Patric did was instead of trying to sell the product itself, he offered to give away Banabu for FREE to people who purchased the monthly newsletter. This was ingenius because the people would be receiving the monthly newsletter for free as part of their purchase anyways. But the change in wording made a huge psychological difference.

It’s a bit like the pscyhology for buy one get one free vs get 50% off when you buy two items. The math works out to be the same but the positioning and wording make all the difference. The pscyhology of one makes it more effective than the other even though mathematically and fucntionally they are both the same.

He worked out the numbers so that the amount he recieved would be the same as if he just sold the product itself, but he put in people’s mind that they would be subscribing to a monthly newsletter.

Also he differentiated himself in his market by telling people NOT to buy Banabu, offered a unique selling proposition, built a list for himself and made enough to recoup his investments and make some profits.

I really liked the idea because he used some creativity to sell the product in a different way. I’ll definitely be taking a look at some of the resale rights that I have and seeing what I can do to sell them more creatively.

I’d actually read about it before but hadn’t thought much about it. But recently, I’ve begun to start using some of the web 2.0 technologies and this new browser is supposed to have a lot of features built in that integrate nicely with web 2.0 sites.

I just installed it about an hour ago and have been playing around with it a little bit. I’ll give a more through review of it after I’ve used it for a little while.

Before I had downloaded it, I had skimmed through a couple of reviews of it. One thing that I had noticed was that a reviewer had mentioned that it was a bit resource intensive for older computers. You can read more about that review here

I am using a bit of an older computer and it’s using 131,380 K of memory. It’s fairly close to firefox, but a bit more resource intensive from my not too scientific survey.

Flock is based on Mozilla Firefox codebase with additional functionalities. So far I’ve added my facebook into it and am testing the feed reader.

I haven’t really used feed reader’s too much; but will start giving it a try.

There’s also supposed to be the capability to post to blogs more easily with this browser; so hopefully I’ll be able to post more regularly. I’ll continue to give you feedback and updates as I use it and test it out over the next couple of weeks.

There’s also integration with flickr or photobucket. I haven’t used my flickr account in ages as I had hit the maximum of 250 pictures and hadn’t wanted to upgrade to a premium account. So I had migrated over to picasa.

I’ll have to dig up my flickr account again and see how it integrates; or I could always try out photobucket…

We’ll keep you updated.