Tag Archives: google

Independent study on OpenID awareness using Mechanical Turk

Even though I wasn’t able to attend the eighth Internet Identity Workshop this week in Mountain View (check out the latest episode of TheSocialWeb.tv for a glimpse), I wanted to do my part to contribute so I’m sharing the results of a study that Brynn Evans and I performed on Mechanical Turk a short while [...]

Musings on Chrome, the rebirth of the location bar and privacy in the cloud

Imagine a browser of the web, by the web, and for the web. Not simply a thick client application that simply opens documents with the http:// protocol instead of file://, but one that runs web applications (efficiently!), that plays the web, that connects people across the boundaries of the silos and gives them local-like access [...]

Google Chrome and the future of browsers

News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit.
This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the internet.
I’ve been struggling to come to grips with my thoughts on this since I first [...]