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Halloween On Maxhon

Bring out your pumpkins! Halloween is just around the corner. Bring those pumpkins into your browser with this Halloween skin.

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Halloween, Maxthon, puppy

Updated: Maxthon 2.0 Feature List

Updated Maxthon 2.0 Main feature list and new features list. Get your own copy of Maxthon 2.0 Public Preview and discover a new world! Keep up the good work Neo101!

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Maxthon2.0

Bill Tai on Maxthon

This is a short interview with Bill Tai, Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures. I asked Bill why he invested in Maxthon, the changing role of the browser and opportunities ahead. I shot the interview last at CRV in Menlo Park week, days after the release of IE7 and the day before the Firefox 2 just after I came back from a meeting with Mozilla. This is my first stumbling step as a Vlogger so please have mercy (the light could have been better;).

I plan to run a regular Maxthon Show, portraying developers and Maxthon-fans around the world so please let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to see.

Technorati Tags: Bill Tai, Browsers, Charles River Ventures, Firefox, IE7, Maxthon, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

The Browser As the Delivery Platform of Web Services

Lately I have been thinking a lot of the delivery of new web services and the role that the browser plays here. Since more and more services are moving from being client-based to web-based the browser has become the focal point of delivery and interaction of these services. This is especially true with the advent of tabbed browsing.

Since I started to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets more frequently, I came up with this idea of creating a number of tabs for the rapid delivery of these services. So I created a group of tabs in Maxthon and called them "My office". When I launch this group, all my "office" tabs : Gmail, Google Calendar, Spreadsheets, Documents and Notebook are opened (see above). It's amazing how simple this was and what a change it brought about for me in terms of efficiency and user-friendlyness. Obviously, "My Office tabs" can consist of more services like "My accounts", "My Salesforce" or anything that you like.

When I had the opportunity last week to meet with the group at Google responsible for their Communications services like Gmail, Calendar, G-Talk, Spreadsheets etc, I demonstrated this delivery mechanism and discussed this "new browser role". I am sure that we haven't even scratched the surface on how these type of services could be better integrated or delivered in browsers. It will be interesting to see how this will evolve.

What do you think? How do you think the browser can play a better role in delivering the new web-services?

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Calendar, Documents, Gmail, Google, puppy, Spreadsheets, Web 2.0, Web-office

Final Maxthon 2.0 Public Preview Release

We have finally release the final public preview of Maxthon 2.0 before moving to beta. Download it and let us know if anything is bugging you ;)

Technorati Tags: Maxthon 2.0 Preview, Maxthon

Maxthon Search via Google Co-Op

Neo101has set up a customized Maxthon search engine via Google's new Co-op service. Maxthon search searches 8 sites including:

• http://res.maxthon.com/ItemList.aspx*
• http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=*
• net.typepad.com/maxthon_blog
• www.maxthon.com
• www.neo101.nl

Excellent idea Neo101! This will be my default search engine for all stuff Maxthon from now on!

Technorati Tags: Google, Google Co-op, Search

MacStone or MacXthon?

Maxthon 2.0 preview running on my MacBook Pro - works really well!

Technorati Tags: Mac, Maxthon

Off to California

I am off to California for 10 days of intensive meetings. Bloodchen will join me after his Vista workshop in Redmund. If there are any Maxthon fans in the Valley area that would like to meet up in the Palo Alto area - please let me know. Hopefully I will manage to shoot couple interviews with Maxthon people and get them up on this blog as well.


Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Browsers, Web browser, Vista, Meetup

BlogEx Sidebar Now with Live Journal, Technorati and categories

More good news to all you bloggers. The BlogEx plugin now has Live Journal support, Technorati tags and Typepad catgegories! Keep up the good work Neo101!


Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Typepad, LiveJournal, Technorati, Blog editior

Welcome Typepad Readers!

Typepad,Blogs,SixApart,Maxthon

Today on October the 10th this blog has been selected to be the featured blog on Typepad. As a special welcome to all the Typepad users, I have lined up couple of special plugins that I think Typepad users and bloggers in general will appreciate.

• Get you Typepad, Technorati and Cocomment plugins for Maxthon here.
• Get the awesome Blog editor for Maxthon
• Check this hot tip for listening and subscribing to Podcasts direct from your browser

You can download Maxthon here. Faster tabbed browsing,full of cool features and shortcuts for users who demand top performance.

Kudos to all the great people at TypePad for the linklove, and while you are here please come by my private blog Net.

Blog Editor for Maxthon

We just released the first version of BlogEx, a blog extension for Maxthon.  Now you can:

• Add posts to your blog quickly with this Maxthon Sidebar plugin!

• Post to your blog without having to go to your blog

• Just open the sidebar, press "New article" or "blog this" (if you like to blog about the page your currently viewing),enter a message in the WYSIWYG editor and publish it to the web!
  

• Add multiple blog accounts to the plugin, view your latest posts, edit/update your latest posts,open and save "drafts", add categories to posts and add new posts of course.

This plugin uses the MetaWeblog API in combination with the Blogger API.

• Wordpress
• Windows Live Spaces
• Typepad
  

Kudos to SiC who started the development & Neo101 who took upon himself to finnish it off. I have personally waited long for this extension as a well as many other bloggers I know. Keep in mind that this is the first take and any comments and useful input is more than welcome.


Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Blog, Tools, Blog Tools, Extensions, Typepad, Wordpress, Spaces, Blogging