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Phorm, for those of you who don’t know, is the logging of personal information to provide targetted adverts to the user.  In recent years this has been hotly debated across the EU as to wether or not it is in fact legal.

Many people do not like to have their search information recorded, but lets face it, it’s not just the internet that does this.  Your local supermarket, be it Tescos or Walmart will be recording what you buy and when you buy it so it can send out advertising to you on the right day about the right products.

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Google Chrome is Googles second foray into the world of Internet browsing software.

Google Chrome itself was released yesterday and is available to download at http://www.google.com/chrome for free.

The best thing about Google Chrome is undoubtedly its new Back End, unlike nearly all other internet browsers Chrome has the unique feature of running each tab and window with its own process, this has several significant benefits.

• Memory Usage
• Browsing Speed
• Crash Protection (Not Recovery)
• Visual Management
• Security

For those who keep abreast of Google’s latest announcements you may be aware that a google comic book (Here) was released to the public yesterday outlining Googles new internet browser – Google Chrome.

While there are no screenshots yet Google Chrome is set to have a beta released today!

So why should you go for Google Chrome? Well the Google comic points out all the pros of Google Chrome, but in a rather technical sense, so I am going to cut things down and make it all just a little bit simpler for you!

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StumbleUpon is the best social bookmarking site out there. It is a favorite of both, blog owners as well as Stumblers. Blog owners get the much needed traffic and the Stumblers ‘find New Sites’. But have you ever wondered, as a blog owner or a Stumbler or both, how much a stumble is worth. I have always wondered that and now, after about two months of research and experimentation I have an answer. Continue Reading»

A recent Reader poll at Problogger revealed that the best time bloggers prefer to blog is at night, in the bed. So, what else can be more rocking for bloggers than a bed with internet connectivity. Continue Reading»

This is the saddest moment of this year so far. Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. What can be more unexciting and bogus than this that the software giant is going to piss off another great web service. When they acquired Hotmail quite sometime ago, I knew that this was the end of the best mail service of that time. I consequently moved to yahoo mail. Now that MS again wants to ruin another great service, I am like lost in the desert, not knowing where to switch now.

When next time I open my Yahoo… Continue Reading»