PSoTD

The number of businesses allowing employees to download the Firefox Web browser soared this year, and at least one analyst believes the recently released Internet Explorer 7 could boost use of Firefox in companies.

Fully, 44 percent of businesses with 250 employees or more allow workers to download Mozilla Corp.'s open-source browser at the office, according to a survey conducted this year by JupiterResearch. Last year, only 26 percent of such businesses were willing to do the same.

"That's a huge jump," Joe Wilcox, analyst for JupiterResearch said Friday. "It's an enormous embrace of Firefox in a very short period of time."

On second thought, the 21-year-old Ross lets the fighting words fly. "Firefox brought Microsoft back to the table, but they make no guarantees how long they'll stick around," he says. "I can't imagine why any individual--let alone an IT department--would bet on a company with a proven track record of gross abandonment."

Yeah, I'm skeptical of IE 7, too.

Apparently, you're better off with orange juice than PSoTD juice.

Interesting post:

Paul Scrivens beats down ten Web 2.0ish companies he feels have either failed to grow, failed to catch on at all, or have simply fallen on their face in his Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers list:

Now many of these sites might not be considered Web 2.0 with regards to the technology they use, but this list was made to show the losers (and winners) in this era of the web regardless of the technologies they are using.

Two on the list that I find interesting are Technorati and Bloglines. Personally, I'm a big fan of both applications.

I have to admit, my usage of Technorati is down considerably over the past year. Part of it is the amount of autoblogger junk I find when I do a search, part of it is how clogged it is with MySpace stuff. Part of it is that I am not nearly as proactive in finding new blogs to read anymore - I have a set list that I read, and new blog finds usually come from references from the regular reads.

Bloglines is a different story - it's HOW I read most of my regular reads anymore, other that Eschaton and Suburban Guerrilla and a few others. If someone comes up with a better application - for example, for each feed in my, show every headline I have marked as unread - in one big page, so that I don't have to click on each feed to see the specifics - I'd like that, as long as adding the feed remained as easy as it is in Bloglines.

Interesting post and request by Thivai at Dialogic:

I would like to extend an invitation to bloggers to join in on a collective blogging section of our upcoming winter issue of Reconstruction. The issue is the “Theories/Practices of Blogging.” In addition to the special section of posts on blogging there will be about a dozen essays on blogging.

The deadline is October 27th.

Our intent in this section of the issue will be to collect a wide range of bloggers and link up to their statements in regards to why they blog (something many of us are asked) and any statement they have on the theories/practices of blogging.

If you already have a post on this you can feel free to use it, or, if you are interested, you can submit a new one.

I will have to think about this a bit.

I'm old and out of it, I had not heard this term before.