But something has gone wrong with Firefox recently. Version 2.0 was a big disappointment. Sure, some tweaks were made, and the interface was changed a bit. But was it a 2.0 product? Certainly not.Worse yet, in the intervening time, Internet Explorer caught up. Its tabbed browsing is now superior to Firefox’s, for example, and it added plenty of new features, such as anti-phishing capabilities (which Firefox also has). Firefox is no longer the better browser; its extensions and add-ons are superior, but that’s about it.
xacid 覺得這篇主要批評 Mozilla 的商業行為，個人倒是覺得這篇文章主要的論點在於「因為 Firefox 不再比較好，所以『只好』轉向在行銷能力上下功夫」– 這點是錯的，打從一開始 Firefox（不同於大部分的開源軟體）就花了很多精力在行銷上。以我的觀點來講，這次的活動成敗不論，絕非像 Preston Gralla 說的「depending on advertising rather than great programming to increase its popularity」，那是分開的兩件事，都要做。
有時活動有多層意義，雖然我個人不喜歡那個廣告活動，但就促進參與來講是成功的。不喜歡 Fx 2 「只進步那麼一點點」當然可以鞭，拿這個地方來搞見微知著就顯得有點牽拖。至於商業行為，有好有壞，我個人採支持態度 — 如果出發點是好的、行事過程中也不用什麼「強迫」的手段，那各種能促進大眾接受程度的事情都可以試試看。
Oliver Gassner pointed me to AdsBlacklist.com, a service which generates a list of URLs based on a URL and a set of keywords you provide. You can then copy & paste this list into your Google AdSense competitive ad filter* to (supposedly) increase ad revenues by up to 50% – because low-paying sites are disabled, leaving more room for those advertisers earning you more cash per click. Ads Blacklist also claim that as a bonus, they’re solving the problem of what they call “made for AdSense” (MFA) sites.
Here’s the question of the day… Why do Mentos mixed with soda produce this incredible eruption? You should know that there is considerable debate over how and why this works. While we offer the most probable explanations below, we also understand and admit that other explanation could be possible… and we welcome your thoughts.
Q: Is it fair that people hold Google to a higher bar than anyone else in the search industry? A: Whether it’s fair or not, it’s a fact that people expect more from Google than other companies. People compare other search engines to Google, but people compare Google to perfection.
簡譯：問：（但）世人看待 Google 的標準總比看其他搜尋業者來得高，這公平嗎？答：是否公平先不論，我們的確對 Google 期望較高。民眾會拿其他搜尋引擎跟 Google 比，卻拿 Google 跟「完美」比。
“An isolated problem caused the loss of all the data in your account before December 18th. Our engineers worked long nights to try to locate any recoverable information, but … they have finally had to accept that for your account we could not recover the data.”
這套月曆所挑選的照片，基本上都是去年約同時期所拍攝的，希望大家會喜歡 
