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   Review - Messenger Plus! Live

   2.54.75 (Apr 23, 2004)

   Nickname renaming is a useful feature.

2. 
   Review - Cloudmark Desktop for Outlook

   1.0 (Apr 30, 2003)

   The toolbar can be made small. (don't show statistic)
   Now that it is official out of beta, I am wondering will they turn off the beta product.

3. Comment - 'Earth Hour' looks for public show of support for Kyoto Protocol U-turn

   1.0 (Mar 27, 2009 - 4:00 PM)

   They never really talk about the cost to implement..

4. Comment - Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?

   1.0 (Mar 22, 2009 - 5:02 AM)

   Firefox's advantages can be summed up as faster, user friendly features, and vast number of addons.
   
   As far as speed is concerned, Firefox's advantage is gone. Google brought Webkit to Windows and sparked this performance war. I am not sure if Mozilla has the resource to keep Gecko up with the other development teams. Mozilla is right now catching up in the Javascript engine area and no doubt is diverting resources from other development goals.
   
   Firefox did very well bringing user friendly features to the mass market. They were able to build their user base quickly while Microsoft was bogged down by their long development process. With firefox 3, however, features don't feel like they fit together very well for some reason. IE8 has catched up in the feature area and Chrome has short release cycle.
   
   Firefox's current ecosystem of addons is very healthy and will probably keep users for now.
   
   Firefox's advantages are being eroded rather quickly. I am not sure if there is anything they can do. Ideally, they should just switch to Webkit and ride on the other companies' investment. They would concentrate on developing the user experience. Unfortunately, I am sure technical and political issues would prevent this idea from ever getting any traction.

5. Comment - Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?

   1.0 (Mar 22, 2009 - 12:52 AM)

   You know they have misplaced their priorities when they spent time on the keyhole cross platform branding buttons instead of making the browser looking modern on each platform. Instead, it looks native, but it's a bit... off. Why does it still have a menu bar? Why does the menu bar still underline the shortcut keys? Why is the stop button blue...? Why does the tab bar looks so foreign?
   
   Instead, they came up with the theory that in order to have a browser look native, you only need to use similar color...

6. Comment - Gmail Gives Up, Adds Delete Button

   1.0 (Jan 20, 2006 - 8:30 PM)

   And I thought that behavior was intentional...

7. Comment - Dell Feels the Squeeze of Low-Cost PCs

   1.0 (Nov 12, 2005 - 2:04 AM)

   Commodity: the product in question may be produced by different companies, but are considered largely the same. If what you sell is a commodity, then you will have great difficulty charging more than the market price.