Technology

I finally upgraded Firefox to the newest version, Firefox 3 - it was worth it. Initially, i thought it would not display my favorite pages properly, especially my blog, or it would not support my favorite Add-ons.

After browsing the Net for some time, i notice the speed and quickness of the tabs. Pages load faster. I am comparing it to the previous version of Firefox. The old one would sometime freeze or when i try to open a tab, it would take about 5 seconds to open it - the hourly glass won't let me do anything.

My favorite Add-ons appear compatible with the newest version of Firefox: Firebug, Addblock Plus, Flash block, ColoZilla and a few others. These Adds-ons are for a safer browsing and some of them for debugging web pages.

In summary, i encourage everyone to upgrade to the newest version - if you have not done so. There are lots of improvements and fixes: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ If you are using any Add-on, make sure they are compatible: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

This is a neat program from Cooliris, PicLens allows you to view your favorites photos in 3D, it lets you zoom in and zoom out, or scroll the bar to see all the pictures in a wall.

It support all the major browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, it is compatible with Windows and Mac.

In Firefox, it's an Add-on program, to install it, visit http://piclens.com, however, in Internet Explorer it's an ActiveX control, it might take a couple of minutes longer to have it installed.

Once it's installed, login to your Facebook account, open an album, then click on the blue button on the very top right corner of your browser, in this case, Firefox - PicLens is launched.

You can search for images using Google, Flickr, Yahoo, Facebook and even Amazon. If you have a website with lots of pictures, you can enable it so your visitors can browse it using PicLens.

Want to see the Beijing Olympics in pictures? Open PicLens!

Don't have financing for your start up?
Have you ever wanted to be like Google or Facebook or maybe twitter at least?
Launchebox is a company that could finance your idea. They could give you a $25,000 to $40, 000 US and give you around 12 weeks time get you a working alpha or beta site.

Based in Washington, D.C., LaunchBox is the newest company to offer 'Build it cheap and Fast' approach to startup wannabes or starters. The $25, 000 - $40, 000 is given to 2 to 4 people, enough to get a functioning demo site up and running. If successful, Launchbox takes a six to eight percent stake in each startup.

Make your dream come true, apply now, you never know where you will be in the next couple of years: http://www.launchboxdigital.com

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals is now available in Spanish. The public profile link is still in English, as well as other content, i am sure this will be get updated, as it is currently in Beta stage.

LinkedIn will push its presence harder now in the Latino countries, focusing of course, to the Hispanic professionals, there are about 25 million professionals in Latin Amreica.

A few social networks are popular in Latin America but not well known or popular in the English Speaking countries, such as Hi5, we'll see how well http://linkedin.com does.

¿Quien habla Español aqui?

Well, i was selected from a group of AdSense publishers to try the free hosted Ad Manager, the new advertising inventory from Google.

The Ad Manager reminds me of PHP OpenAds, now http://openx.org.

Here is what the Ad Manager consists of:

• Proven Google speed and reliability
• Built-in reporting tools
• Accurate inventory forecasting
• An intuitive user interface
• Yield management
• Optional AdSense integration to help maximize revenue

I got an update later today that it is now multilingual, it supports 25 languages, and apparently, they will be adding more languages in the coming weeks.

According to Wikipedia:

Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.

That means that you could send short messages to a variety of devices, such as cell phones, BlackBerry or iPhone, but can also be viewed via IMs and email.

No matter where you are, at your desktop, travelling or at work, you can send a short message about an event, a meeting or anything you would like to broadcast quickly.

http://twitter.com appears be one of the most popular service out there, but often goes down, the creators sometimes disable the 'Reply' link, especially when there is live event going on, where a lot of people are logged in.

A new comer to this area is http://identi.ca, which could be a competitor to Twitter, but has lots of catch up to do - It has yet to add a reply link.

Micro-blogging has yet to hit the mean stream, but hopefully, with enough users and more true micro-blogging sites, we will all be connected in real time, reading or writing brief messages.

Not just keeping in touch with your friends but also to promoting your site. There are many tools out there that makes it possible, however, these tools are very useful.

• Facebook.com Allows you to add friend, connect with others, create a network or group and much more.
• Friendfeed.com Post a message, and it will appear in your facebook account, under the minifeeds section.
• Twitter.com Post short messages, you can even send messages from your cellphone and via SMS.

So, start promoting your site, activity or event, keep in touch with your old friends or make new ones. Think about it, you can even make money from these free tools, use your imagination.

The popular iPhone by Apple goes on sale in Canada today. Some people in certain cities already are the proud owner of one.

In Vancouver, early in the morning, around 5am, there were about less than a 100 people lining outside the store. A few slept overnight.

Rogers, the only carrier in Canada to offer the iPhone said it has about 100 iPhones in store.

A lot of people were outraged when Rogers announced the iPhone plan, but after hearing people's concerns, they decided to change it. The basic plan would cost you about $100 dollars, that has been adjusted.

http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voi...