Eric Schmidt speaks at Bloomberg Headquarters on October 20, 2008 in New York City about the future of technology.
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The UK Carbon Footprint project
Today I was surfing the internet and found a very interesting project/utility… once again from GOOGLE! 
The project’s name is:
The UK Carbon Footprint project .
“Google aims to help people find information that matters to them quickly and easily. Through the UK Carbon Footprint Project we make information on calculating and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as information on climate change in the UK, easily accessible to everyone.
The project enables you to calculate your carbon footprint, choose personalised carbon-reducing actions and compare your footprint and actions to those of others around the country by placing yourself on the Google UK Carbon Footprint Map.”
Here the summary of my report (which one is your?):
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Click here for an updated map.
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Queen Elizabeth II visits Google in London – UK
(images courtesy of Jon and google) – On the 16th of October 2008, Queen Elizabeth II visited Google’s UK Headquarters in London.
Queen Elizabeth II was the first Sovereign to send an email, and now Queen Elizabeth II is the first Queen to visit Google’s UK Headquarters in London.
Google celebrated the queen’s visit by creating a special version of its google.co.uk home page, which featured a silhouette of her head as the second “G” and a regal crown atop the “E” in their logo. This Logo is called Google Doodles and was designed by schoolchildren (here the article).
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Google Chrome runs quickly: already more than 3% of the market share
Browser Statistics Month by Month
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| September | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% |
Google Chrome has been launched less than a month ago and has already reached 3.1% of the market share (source: w3school accessed on the 4th of October 2008).
If this trend continues (and probably it will), in few months Google Chrome will be the leader of the market! I bet on it!
Only a recommedation:
People still complaining about the missing google toolbar. Google Chrome is the best browser I have ever tried: fast, clear, and usable. But please Google Guys… the toolbar is absolutely needed. And I really hope you will come up with a wonderful original Google Chrome Toolbar… something like the one I hypothesized in one of my previous post: Google Chrome in the 3 most used browsers: how long will it take?
Or maybe something better, something that we human beings can’t neither imagine!
Ciao
Google Chrome in the 3 most used browsers: how long will it take?
Browser Statistics Month by Month
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| August | 26.0% | 24.5% | 0.1% | 43.7% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 2.1% |
| July | 26.4% | 25.3% | 0.3% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.9% |
| June | 27.0% | 26.5% | 0.5% | 41.0% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 1.7% |
| May | 26.5% | 27.3% | 0.7% | 39.8% | 0.7% | 2.4% | 1.5% |
| April | 24.9% | 28.9% | 1.0% | 39.1% | 0.9% | 2.2% | 1.4% |
| March | 23.3% | 29.5% | 1.1% | 37.0% | 1.1% | 2.1% | 1.4% |
| February | 22.7% | 30.7% | 1.3% | 36.5% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1.4% |
| January | 21.2% | 32.0% | 1.5% | 36.4% | 1.3% | 1.9% | 1.4% |
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| IE | Internet Explorer |
| Fx | Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005) |
| Moz | The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape) |
| S | Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007) |
| O | Opera |
| N | Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006) |
| AOL | America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla) |
Source: W3school (accessed on the 6th of Sept 2008)
And now is time to include Google Chrome as well! I am pretty sure Google Chrome is going to be the first of the class very soon! It is just great: very wide screen, clear, easy to use and very fast! The only negative point (and people are complaining about it) is the google toolbar! Unfortunately Google Chrome was released without Google Toolbar.
I guess GG (Google Guys) are doing a great job around the google toolbar for Google Chrome. I think of something like… fading effect (same effect than the property hover), with a non invasive Google Toolbar that appears and disappears when the mouse ‘hover‘ the Google Toolbar button, and a fading drop down menu (including page rank, translator button, autofill and so on) will gently appear.
This will be also a good additional point to immediately gain points over the competitors.
How long will Google Chrome need to be in the 3 most used browsers?
Ciao,
Marco
