links for 2007-07-23

In this talk I covered new features coming in Firefox (that should be interesting to developers) and talk a little bit about how the JavaScript language is advancing.

Google has doubled the storage on the corporate edition of GMail to 25GB. The company has also added enhanced security and spam filtering features from Postini, which Google acquired for $625 million in July.

He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. We’ve categorized the optimizations into: server, content, cookie, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile.

Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines:

Found an awesome list of alternative and useful search engine sites and I just had to share it with you guys, its a lot of fun!

En algunas comparativas, curiosamente, parece que con respecto a los medios de pago, el último en llegar, Google Checkout podría ganar a PayPal por goleada. ¿Las razones?

Donna Bogatin on ZDNet reports that Google – through its recent dMarc acquisition – will soon roll out a product that dynamically generates and changes a terrestrial radio commercial based on demographics and news/conditions in the local market.

Google has joined a group that is promoting an OpenDocument Format standard that allows people to open documents regardless of the application they were created in.

Lo anunciaron en octubre del año pasado y ya se pueden hacer las primeras pruebas de interoperabilidad entre Windows Live Messenger y Yahoo Messenger con Voz. Hay que apuntarse (ideas.live) para poder acceder a esta funcionalidad en beta

La cantidad de aplicaciones hechas con Ruby on Rails crece cada día y en RedFerret han sacado una lista con las 20 mejores aplicaciones realizadas con Ruby on Rails, con una particularidad, el subtítulo dice “de las que nunca habías oido hablar”

Great article covering tricks and tips that can make your Rails application or code more efficient

Slicken up your web apps with these tips and tricks using the Yahoo! User Interface library

Le ha costado un año exacto y 14 intercambios, pero el joven canadiense de 26 años Kyle MacDonald ha pasado a la historia de Internet por ser quien logró la propiedad de una casa a partir de un simple clip rojo, y todo a base de trueques…

La revista Business Week publica esta semana un excelente artículo sobre Google, titulado Mucha fanfarria y pocos éxitos. La tesis es sorprendente: salvo en el caso del buscador, el resto de productos de Google no han logrado convertirse en líderes del