Living on the Edges

Hugh MacLeod posts a great series of thoughts about living on the edges — and no, it’s not just about living like a rock star.

…there are other edges out there. Plenty of them. Apple obsessing about industrial design. Dell obsessing about their customers. Microsoft obsessing about software problems that may not even exist yet. Though their business models are all quite different, they’re quite edgy about what they do as individual companies. And this is PRECISELY what made them so successful- the edge part, not the middle part.

Are you living on the edges?

Google Chrome Needs More Desktop Testing

Google Chrome is barely a day into beta, so I don’t expect it to be perfect. I do, however, expect it to run.

I’m sure Chrome runs Web apps like lightning, with its process isolation and V8 JavaScript engine. Google seems to have forgotten, however, that while Chrome runs Web apps, it still runs on the desktop. They may have used their index to test Chrome on thousands upon thousands of the world’s most popular sites, but they apparently didn’t test it on as many desktop configurations. Click here to continue reading “Google Chrome Needs More Desktop Testing”…