Blue Sky On Mars

There have been lots of programs along the way that claim to speed up browsing. However, not many people can offer a 100,000 computer network with tons of bandwidth to speed up your surfing. That’s where Google comes in with their web accelerator. The basic idea is that Google is already caching copies of web pages, so they’ll take those cached copies and send them to you more quickly than the original servers could. They also do prefetching of pages, compression and other tricks to speed up general surfing.

Sadly, it’s only Windows at this point. (But it at least works with a decent browser). Modem users need not apply, as this will likely just make your modem explode.

Yahoo is now offering traffic conditions via an RSS feed. It would be a handy link if I didn’t work from home… Worth keeping a link here for future reference, though.

Ian is starting on the path toward beta of HelpSpot and has given a first look at HelpSpot’s request view. Many help desk systems are way too complicated for many people who just need to effectively track customer requests. This looks like a good balance and a good way to make sure things don’t get dropped.