D-talk

The new milestone of Firefox is almost here!

Firefox 3.0b1 is released a few days ago and already shows positive results in performance, it runs faster, uses less memory and has nice new features! The most important improvement is the performance, Firefox was the slowest of the 3 especially when starting up and had a memory leak that let it consume lot of memory quite rapidly. I didn't care so much, when I browse I rather have full use of my system, so if it uses a lot of memory so what, but then again memory leaks are never a good thing.

Already many people wrote something about it on their blog, but there is only one that I read and find interesting enough to link here.
And that is: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=960 an entry made by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes where he writes a little about memory usage.

To download the beta2 version, look here:

• http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/12/18/firefox-3-beta-2-now-available-for-download
• http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/11/19/firefox-3-beta-1-now-available-for-download

Who doesn't know wiki!
A great system for people to share information. This is great for websites and communities, but has downsides when you want to make one big information source.
Since as you can read on many news sites and/or blogs the information isn't always correct. In fact many propaganda is added to our beloved wiki.

Danny Wool (former) member of the wikipedia foundation and long time contributer started Veropedia.

To quote from the Veropedia.com website:
"Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information." 

All I can add is that I truly hope that it becomes a success as much as wikipedia is today.