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Google Chrome released, IE8 announced, privacy mayhem ensues

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Julien Coquet
on September 2, 2008
in About us, Blogging, Business Tips and Tricks, Google Analytics, In French, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News and eMetrics
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Guillaume wants to drive

Hi folks, we have been lazy bloggers lately but as Aurélie mentioned, newfound parenthood can put a serious dent in your writing time – I learned that the hard way with the arrival of my little Guillaume (isn’t he adorable, though?).

But back to business as usual. By now, everyone in the Web community has heard of two major news items: Google’s ‘Chrome’ browser and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 are about to be released.
You can download Google Chrome starting @ noon Pacific Standard Time, or 21.00 CET.

What does this mean for you as a Web user, as a marketer and/or as a Web analyst?

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Death of a web browser

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by
Julien Coquet
on March 17, 2008
in Thoughts and Ideas and Web Analytics
. Closed

NetscapeThis is the end of an adventure that started over 10 years ago and shaped web browsers as we know them today.

If you look at web browsers now and how they looked like 10 years ago, you’ll have to admit they don’t look that different from way back then.

Content got richer, scripting languages appeared, plug-ins were added, but at the end of the day, it’s still about one big window with a URL address bar, Back and Submit buttons and clickable links in a document sprinkled with a few images and icons.

And Netscape was our first window into the World Wide Web, back when it was still a somewhat marginal sub-set of the Internet. Care to get your memory jogged?

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