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Gran Paradiso & Firefox 3

By Josh Brown ⋅ September 21, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Beloved browser Firefox is in the middle of Alpha testing for their new browser. For all intents and purposes it’s Firefox 3. But for now is being called GranParadiso. I’ve heard that it’s going to be much faster. Which seems impossible considering how much quicker it is than the conversion van that is Internet Explorer. There’s not much going on now with the Alpha version other than it being tested by web developers. But I decided to download the Alpha version to just give it a quick peek. and to see if there is anything interesting that might be worth sharing. And I found a little ditty that is going to be very cool.

META DATA!! For all of you non-geek people. This simply means that we’ll now be able to tag the sites we view with meta data, i.e. tags. Meaning that not only will you be able to bookmark sites, but you will be able to “label” them with information that you think is pertinent to them. So that when you start to look for them, you will essentially be able to look for things that aren’t just “title” specific or concrete in nature. In layman’s term, the web is continuing to evolve from being static repositories of information and highways from point A to point B. And moving more towards a dynamic, evolving entity. Where information comes to you as opposed to you going to the information. Bottom line . . . we’re teaching the web to think when we tag things. In a romanticized way, we’re weeding out the crap with the real thing. And funneling the overwhelming amount of information through user-specific contexts.

This is good news indeed. Especially coming from a browser.

Integration my friends. Mark my words as I’ve begged you to do here and here (I think I’m going to start calling myself a future-caster), integration will be a theme and a phrase that gains much more prominence in the coming years. First with the internet. But then into medicine, spirituality, organizational structures,  systems thinking, operational procedures, foreign policy.

The internet is changing in big, big ways. Do not underestimate how big this change will be.

Read the Lifehacker and Wired reviews.  And here’s the Mozilla Wiki on it.