Blogging and Browsers

Matthew Allen made an interesting point about browsers. Looting Matters has been collecting this information and IE is still in the lead followed by Firefox with Safari and Chrome quite a way behind. I have noticed that more people are using phones to access information and iPads (from several locations) are quite often used.

Which browser are you using ... right now ... ?

News reaches us in the ivory library tower that Firefox (in Europe at least) has finally overtaken Internet Explorer. Statcounter shows that in December 2010, in Europe, Fifefox pushed Microsoft's offering into second place.

However, more and more people are getting interested in Google's Chrome, especially now that the Chrome Web Store offers so many extensions, plug ins and tweaks, some of which really add enormously to the original function. Many people use a different browser for different tasks - Google Apps do run very nicely in Chrome after all (big surprise !) and the Uni Web Mail powered by Microsoft Exchange is a bit disappointing in anything other than IE (big surprise again !).

So, which browser are you currently using to access things ? Are you using more than one ? What do you use for what ?

Web 3.0 has arrived?

Several people are getting quite exited about the new version of the Opera web browser, which includes something called Opera Unite. Stephen Downes goes as far as to call it the start of Web 3.0. There is a good overview at Mashable.Together with Google Wave, is the a significant shift in the Web? A change in the power structure? What will this mean for institutionally provided systems?