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B12K : Customize Google Chrome
Aug 5th
Many of you have had a crush once they heard that Google was about to launch a browser , and indeed once it was released , a lot of people were upset by the fact that there was no way to customize their browser , a bit like it’s possible to do with Firefox, but now things are about to change :
After an announcement regarding the addition of a real-time data synchronization feature (including favorites), integrating an O3D and Native Client, Google has added themes (or skins) to Chrome.
A total of 29 themes, which are plug-ins created to customize the look of the browser, and that are now available with version 3 of Chrome .
Such extensions are already widely available on a browser like Firefox, as the synchronization feature with Weave, or using a plugin like Xmark. This is also the case for Opera.
Google is expected to mobilize developers to enrich the list of extensions for Chrome 3, and before that stimulate the adoption of its browser which is far behind Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari in terms of market share .
Installing a theme is not easy: you download a file. CRX, then load the Google Chrome theme and offers you the possibility to return to the default theme.
You can’t preview the themes before installing them and there is no interface for managing themes. The only way to uninstall themes , extensions or change the theme is by typing chrome://extensions/ in your address bar.
For now, the gallery contains only themes created by Google, but in the near future, you can create your own theme and upload it in the gallery.
B12K : What’s Sidewiki ??
Sep 24th
Posted by admin in IT
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Google has found a new way to improve the interaction between a website and Internet users: a new tool called Sidewiki allow users to leave comments on a web page directly from their browser. To do this, Sidewiki appears as a small tab directly integrated to Google toolbar on the browser.
Strangely This new tool is currently only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. However, the Mountain View company said on its official blog that Sidewiki should soon be available on Google Chrome …
Once on a Web page, users can choose to leave a comment by clicking on the tab Sidewiki of its browser, which will open a window on the left of the browser and the visitor will be able to directly enter their comment and validate it by clicking the “Publish” button. The message left becomes visible to other users who visit the website.
Users can also share comments on his Facebook profile, Twitter, Google profile or from an e-mail.
To encourage users to leave many comments through Sidewiki, Google ensures that the messages that are the most interesting and relevant and not necessarily the most recent will be highlighted. To this end, the Internet giant affirms to have developed a special algorithm to determine the ranking of reviews: it takes into account the feedback from other users through a voting system, based on the already published comments by the author.
This algorithm would also have the ability to detect spam and abusive or slanderous comments, and block them.
Presented as a tool created to facilitate the inclusion of comments on web pages, Sidewiki might be frowned by publishers, webmasters of websites or bloggers who, if users begin to use massively Sidewiki could lose the control over the comments left on their site.
nt alors géré par Google.