Google Location, the best of results, the worst of results
Google announced on their official blog a couple of days ago that location was the new black. Enhancing search results by allowing the surfer to rank results 'nearby', or pick another location by name.
This is just a continuation of the direction on-line technologies have been moving with social media leading the charge. Services like foursquare giving people their constant location fix. Twitter has even gone local allowing you to share your location in 140 character chunks.
Up until now the only real down side of this location hungry trend has been the exact same thing touted as the benefit of telling the world where you are. Namely that the world knows where you are. Privacy concerns are rife...
Tags: Taking joy from simple news: IE6 and Youtube
Anyone who has anything even remotely to do with web development will be smiling at the news today that Youtube is going to discontinue support for IE6.
Not only that, we've got a date. 13th of March, 2010.
While this isn't really the end, it will certainly put that little bit more pressure on the roughly 15-20% of internet users who still cling to the 9 year old version of Internet Explorer for various reasons I fail to fully comprehend.
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