Australians are an egalitarian lot, and hence we’ve also got one of the biggest usage figures world wide for Firefox: 24.23% of all Australians use Firefox according to Onestat (via Beta News)….nothing like supporting the underdog against the big guys. Beating us however is the Germans, with an amazing 39.02%. Common Aussies, prides at stake here, lets increase the figure to 50%!

Interestingly also, Australia also has the highest usage rate in the world for the Opera browser as well: 4.69%. Can’t blame them, it’s still not quite Firefox yet, but the more I use it, the more I’m impressed with Opera…now if only I could get my favourite Firefox plugins to work on Opera I might even switch to it full time.

Tags: Firefox, Opera, Australia

Coaman.ch is showing a screenshot (here) from the upcoming GDrive, Google’s online storage solution. But the shot raises even more questions: what exactly is the “Google Computer” mentioned on the screenshot?

VPN-less access: Not at a Google Computer?

So if we presume that Google is doing a private alpha test of GDrive across developers, exactly what is the “Google Computer” they might be using? Is it the Google PC that’s been speculated about for so long? After all, if GDrive is just an online storage facility, why would you need VPN access, after all, you should just be able to access those files, right?

Tags: GDrive, Google PC

Who’s spinning, and who’s telling the truth? I’d say watching this Amanda’s not looking some much like the victim any more.

Tags: Andrew Baron, Rocketboom

Vale Rocketboom 2006. It was nice while it lasted, I guess it will probably mean more traffic for zefrank…which isn’t a bad thing I guess. Coverage here, here, here and here.

Anyone else having regular issues with the SMTP for gmail? Seems now serveral times a day I can’t send emails from Thunderbird using my gmail account. Very, very annoying, particularly when I’ve still got pop3 access and am receiving emails with no problems, I just can’t always respond to them.

Tags: gmail

It’s taken longer than I thought it would, but finally the consolidation of the blog searching market has begun, with Dave Winer reporting that PubSub is dead. Servers Bob Wyman right for being too-snarky towards those who dared criticise this mob in the past…if you want to get support in the community, embrace your critics and learn from them.

Tags: PubSub

Congrats to Nick Wilson and the team at Performancing on the announcement of their new ad network. She’s only at a beta testing stage at the moment, but given the massive strength of the people behind the project…and without knowing exactly what it is yet, I’m guessing that it’s going to be a winner, and I’ll be watching with interest.

Tags: Performancing

Darren has an interesting article over at Problogger today on “Profile Peddling” which is setting up sites on services such as MySpace to drive traffic to your site. Now I’ve got accounts on most of these services, but to be honest I’d never really seen them as a way to drive traffic to sites (I just like playing with new stuff 🙂 ). The question is also raised: is this ethical? I like one particular commenter who wrote that it’s ethical unless you are doing it for unethical reasons! Food for thought.

A great rags to riches tale at DMNews about a company which makes high-tech coffee mugs who targeted bloggers to promote their product and then went on to bigger and better things.

Want to try and understand Web 2.0 and the future of media, then read this. One of the best pieces you’ll read this year on where media is going.