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Want to know how popular website designs looked like in late 90’s? There is no Web 2.0 10 years ago.
At that time, you consider IT people if you know HTML. Broadband is not so famous yet, the more simple Website load faster on dial up 56.6kbps modem. See which one you can recognise in the list of popular Websites 10 years ago?
Google in 1998
Microsoft in 1999
We saw a lots of imitate products from China. For example HiPhone that imitate iPhone has 90% similar on its outlook. Even all icons are the same.
Not only iPhone, there are many copy cat Websites too.
A famous social networking website “XiaoNei” imitate more than 90% of FaceBook design. From website design, icon to colors are all same. It currently has 40 millions users. But only few of them know about facebook.
Looking at the name “BaiGooHoo” I’m sure you know it is combination of 3 logos: Baidu, Google and Yahoo. Use the same font,size and colors! It looks like a search engine but too many ads at main page. Real big copy cat huh? (more…)
Have you customize your MSN messenger emoticons? Emoticons is not only in MSN, it is now available in Gmail too. Gmail now gets emoticons and auto replies.
I check back Gmail feature improvement from the pass (Gmail weird feature, Free IMAP support) , it has made email more fun and useful over time.
Free emoticons have been available on Google Chat for quite some time, now its first time in Gmail. You should an emoticons icon in Compose page. Lots of emoticons to choose. Basically 2 types: Square emoticons and Round emoticons. Personally I think round emoticons nicer. About 80 emoticons for each type.
So we have no more text emotion code needed. Email have become so fun like chatting.
Either working at Google or Microsoft is dream work for many engineer and developer. We all know Mr Bill Gates has “slowly” retire from Microsoft after 30 years of hard work on last week, which founded by him at year 1975. In year 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin has found Google Inc. Both companies are giant leader in their market. But which one better?
What is your answer for this question? I know it is a subjective question, but actually both companies did provide very good benefits compare to many. So far, there are few senior developers tell the world that Microsoft is better. Is it true?
There is a long long full page story. To keep it short, I’ve summarized 3 main reason why they jump from Google to Microsoft. (more…)
